To provide an embroidering machine high in operability through making a cap frame device detachable.

This embroidering machine is characterized by comprising a machine frame 30 having bed part 4, a pedestal part 31 set upright on the bed part 4, and an arm part 1 located above the bed part 4 and extendingly lying in parallel to the bed part 4, a longer body 10 extendingly lying in the X-axis rectangular to the direction of posture of the arm part 1, Y-axis drive members 11 and 34 functioning to move the longer body 10 in the Y-axis direction parallel to the posture of the arm part 1, a cap frame device 40 having a holding body 19 for turnably holding a turning frame 17, and connective means 11a, 12, 23, 34a, 32 and 33 for connecting the holding body 19 on both ends of the longer body 10.