Husqvarna Viking Brilliance 80 Sewing & Embroidery Machine

The Husqvarna Viking Brilliance 80 (full name: Designer Brilliance™ 80) is one of the most feature-dense sewing and embroidery machines we carry — the kind of machine you buy when you've genuinely outgrown everything else, not when you're just starting out. It sits at a similar level and price point to our Pfaff Creative 4.5, but takes a noticeably different approach: where Pfaff leans on its Dual Feed system and stitch-design tools, Viking leans hard into screen technology, sensor-assisted sewing, and cloud connectivity.

The 7-inch full-colour touch screen is capacitive — it works like a tablet, with pinch, swipe, and drag gestures rather than a stylus or physical buttons. Built into it is the Sewing Advisor, which walks you through techniques step by step: tell it your fabric and what you're trying to do, and it sets the stitch, tension, and presser foot pressure for you. For someone still building confidence with a machine this advanced, that guidance genuinely shortens the learning curve.

On the sewing side, you get over 550 built-in stitches across 19 categories, stitches up to 54mm wide, and 5 programmable alphabets in upper and lowercase for monogramming. It comes standard with an Interchangeable Dual Feed foot (Viking's version of a built-in walking foot) plus two walking foot guides — normally a separate purchase on other machines — along with a sensor-equipped straight stitch plate that automatically limits stitch width when fitted, protecting your needle from breaking. You also get 29 needle positions, two free-motion settings (spring action and floating), an automatic thread cutter with sensor, and a one-step buttonhole function with 11 styles built in.

The embroidery side is where this machine really separates itself: a generous embroidery field up to 360x350mm without rehooping, over 565 built-in embroidery designs, 5 embroidery fonts from 10mm to 80mm, and embroidery speeds up to 1000 stitches per minute. Features like Smart Save, automatic jump-stitch trimming, on-screen design positioning and shaping, appliqué tools, and the ability to embroider buttonholes and decorative stitches directly in the hoop all point toward serious, repeat embroidery work rather than occasional use.

It's also WiFi-enabled, connecting to Husqvarna Viking's mySewnet™ Cloud so you can sync embroidery designs across your computer, tablet, and the machine itself, and monitor a running embroidery job remotely through the companion app. This is a genuinely useful feature if you're doing embroidery work while managing other things around the shop or home — but it's also optional; the machine sews and embroiders perfectly well without ever connecting it to WiFi, if you'd rather keep things simple.

The work area itself is close to 10 inches, fully LED-lit, giving you real room for quilting or wide embroidery designs without the fabric bunching against the machine body. It comes with the Designer Royal Hoop (360x200mm), a straight stitch needle plate, a hard cover, and thirteen presser feet covering everything from buttonholes to piecing to appliqué — a genuinely complete kit out of the box.

One honest note: like the Pfaff, this is a single-needle machine — built for boutique-scale and personal/professional embroidery, not high-volume commercial production. And the WiFi/cloud features do need a one-time account setup with mySewnet to use, which we're happy to walk you through at installation.

At Sri Dhanalakshmi Enterprises, the Viking Brilliance 80 comes with free installation — our team sets it up, connects it if you'd like the WiFi features active, and takes you through the touch screen and embroidery module in person. It's backed by a 1-year warranty, and we provide ongoing showroom service support here in Hyderabad.