Bookbinding at Home: The Basics of Bookbinding Simply Explained in Words and Diagrams |
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½ inch 25mm 1 inch bank paper bicycle wheel Bodoni bone folder chalk coloured end paper cord ends cover boards covering material damaged decoration fingers flange flyleaf fore edge Full binding glazed paper glued gold foil grain hammer Headband hole inside joint knife knocked Kraft Paper laid last section lay a piece Lay the book leather or cloth marks millimetres needle Pare the leather perfect binding piece of board piece of kraft piece of paper piece of waste Place the book plough pressing boards projects pull put the book raised bands Rounded spine sandpaper saw cuts Serifs set square sewing frame sewn Shagreen sheet shellac shown side spine and corners spine covering spine material spread paste spread with glue strip of jaconette tapes thick thin thread tighten title label top and bottom trim Typefaces underlay usually Vellum waste paper white paper wood pulp