![]() Saddle stitching usually refers to staples, but sewing is something different ![]() Over one-hundred-and-fifty years later, the Singer sewing machine is still in use in homes around the world and also now in the print finishing industry since using sewing machines can provide a unique method of bookbinding by stitching folded sections together using thread which is deliberately left visible. Sewing machines can be used for print finishing The Singer sewing machine was patented by the remarkable American Isaac Merritt Singer in 1851 but Singer, who was also known as a strolling player, a theatre manager, and an entrepreneurial millionaire, did not actually invent the sewing machine an Englishman named Thomas Saint built the first one in 1790.Īnd before this, German-born engineer Charles Wiesenthal, who was working in England at the time, was awarded the first British patent for the design of a mechanical device to aid the art of sewing.
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