Smyth sewing
or Smythe sewing
[ smahyth, smith ]
/ smaɪθ, smɪθ /
noun Bookbinding.
a method of sewing together folded, gathered, and collated signatures with a single thread sewn through the folds of individual signatures.
Origin of Smyth sewing
after David M.
Smyth (1833–1907), Irish-born U.S. inventor, who designed a machine performing this kind of sewing