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Similarly, another staff worker said that she had asked her father before going to the interview for the post of lockstitch worker.

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2021

The greatest date in the history of modern fashion was 1846, when the lockstitch sewing machine was patented.

From Time Magazine Archive

The two threads of the lockstitch cross in the materials joined together, and the lines of stitches show the same on both sides.

From The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest by Thompson, Holland

By November 1848 he had produced the basic drawings for a machine that would make a lockstitch.

From The Invention of the Sewing Machine by Cooper, Grace Rogers

By simple adjustment, the machine could also make the cablestitch and the lockstitch.

From The Invention of the Sewing Machine by Cooper, Grace Rogers




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