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Smyth sewing

American  
[smahyth, smith] / smaɪθ, smɪθ /
Or Smythe sewing

noun

Bookbinding.
  1. a method of sewing together folded, gathered, and collated signatures with a single thread sewn through the folds of individual signatures.


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Origin of Smyth sewing

After David M. Smyth (1833–1907), Irish-born U.S. inventor, who designed a machine performing this kind of sewing

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