Lexicon of Terminology for Conservation of Islamic Manuscripts

SIMPLIFIED LINK-STITCH
Unsupported sewing similar to the link-stitch. The sewing thread passes from sewing station to sewing station along the fold-line on the inside of each gathering. When the thread exits one gathering on the spine, it is taken behind the thread going into the adjacent station on the previous gathering. However, unlike the link-stitch sewing, it does not go through the loop formed by itself in this passage. Consequently there is no cinching of the thread by that loop before it proceeds to the next gathering to be sewed. Again, two chains of linkages are formed: one chain linking all the gatherings at the stations adjacent to each other towards the head, the other linking all the gatherings at the stations adjacent to each other towards the tail of the gatherings. These linkages are looser, however, than those formed by the link-stitch sewing.

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SIMPLIFIED LINK-STITCH

Unsupported sewing similar to the link-stitch. The sewing thread passes from sewing station to sewing station along the fold-line on the inside of each gathering. When the thread exits one gathering on the spine, it is taken behind the thread going into the adjacent station on the previous gathering. However, unlike the link-stitch sewing, it does not go through the loop formed by itself in this passage. Consequently there is no cinching of the thread by that loop before it proceeds to the next gathering to be sewed. Again, two chains of linkages are formed: one chain linking all the gatherings at the stations adjacent to each other towards the head, the other linking all the gatherings at the stations adjacent to each other towards the tail of the gatherings. These linkages are looser, however, than those formed by the link-stitch sewing.

AUTHORS: PAUL HEPWORTH AND KARIN SCHEPER

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