You can buy a walking foot as an accessory for a Singer or a Sears sewing machine. They are inexpensive. $20 or so.
There is little difference with the Singer industrial machine. Mostly it is for mass production and builds into a large table for things like slip covers and drapes.
You can get along with these standard machines for what you want to do.
If you are going to go into business to do this, that's a different story.
Yup. The Italian seamstresses are outrageous for sure. Working leather is hard work.
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