Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology
lock stitch
1. Any method of sewing with thread whereby the stitching at each operation is "locked" and cannot unravel if cut on either side of the completed stitch. 2. See:
KETTLE STITCH
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