Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 783
ves. One end of the spiral needle is of course sharpened, and the other end by a hookengages the thread, and thus carries it through and through the material, making a lapping stitchround the edges of the seam, which cannot thus be distinguished from hand-sewing except by itsregularity and…
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