Lockstitch

Elias Howe (1819–67) invented the lockstitch sewing machine; in 1851 Isaac M. Singer (1811–75) invented the first practical domestic sewing machine. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Howe, the American inventor, secured a patent for an improvement in sewing-machines, which embodied the main features of the machine used at present; to wit, a grooved needle provided with an eye near its point, a shuttle operating on the side of the cloth opposite the needle to form a lockstitch, and an automatic feed. ❋ Edwin Emerson (1914)

The two threads of the lockstitch cross in the materials joined together, and the lines of stitches show the same on both sides. ❋ Holland Thompson (1906)

In short, the chainstitch is a crochet or knitting stitch, while the lockstitch is a weaving stitch. ❋ Holland Thompson (1906)

-- A man named Hunt invented the lockstitch sewing machine in 1834; but it was not successful, and some time elapsed before his idea was taken up by Elias Howe, who after several years of experiment (1846) made a practical machine. ❋ John Bach McMaster (1892)

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Howe perfected the lockstitch sewing machine, but it was Isaac Merritt Singer who would ultimately become synonymous with the sewing machine, even though he never had that critical flash of insight. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The term "single needle stitching", often found on dress shirt labels, refers to lockstitch, as opposed to chain stitch which unravels easily and is usually used on lower quality garments. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The lockstitch uses two threads, an upper and a lower. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Then the take-up arm pulls the excess upper thread (from the bobbin area) back to the top forming the lockstitch ideally in the center of the thickness of the material, the tension mechanism prevents the thread from being pulled from the spool side, the needle is pulled out of the cloth, and the feed dogs pull the cloth back one stitch length, the cycle is repeated as the machine turns mechanically. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Fill the pages with random facts which may at some point prove useful: the human body has 210 bones; the capital of Australia is Canberra, not Sydney or Melbourne as most people think; Elias Howe invented the lockstitch sewing machine — after struggling with his original design which did not work as it should, the answer came to him in a dream in which he was captured by a bunch of savages carrying spears with eye-shaped holes near the top. ❋ Unknown (2008)