SEWING

**Definition:** This place covers:

Sewing apparatus or machines

Sewing processes dependent on their use

The thread seams produced thereby

**Limiting references (this place does not cover):** - Details of garments (e.g. stitches) or of their making -> A41D27/00 - Sewing tables (as furniture) -> A47B29/00 - Permanently attaching together sheets, quires or signatures by stitching with filamentary material, e.g. textile thread (i.e. sewing in bookbinding) -> B42B2/00 - Sewing machines modified for knitting -> D04B39/08

**Glossary:** - Sewing: Uniting or fastening by stitches.