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• Barm skin  + (A leather apron sometimes worn by a bookbinder)
• Rejointed  + (A leather binding that has had one or both joints repaired or replaced)
• Morocco cloth  + (A linen cloth finished with a grain pattern resembling leather, usually a straight-grained morocco.)
• Folder  + (A long, thin polished piece of wood, bone, plastic, or other material, used when folding paper by hand to crease the sheet without soiling or otherwise damaging it.)
• Guillotine cutter  + (A machine used for cutting large numbers of sheets of paper and board, and also in library binding for trimming the edges of books.)
• Nonpareil marble  + (A marble pattern consisting or red, black, … A marble pattern consisting or red, black, yellow, blue, and buff, executed on a size of gum tragacanth. The red is dropped first so as to cover the entire surface of the size, followed by the black, yellow, blue, and buff. A peg rake the length of the trough is drawn across the surface, followed by a fine comb drawn from left to right across the width of the trough. The paper is then laid on. The reversed nonpareil is executed in the same manner except that the comb is drawn from left to right and then back again.wn from left to right and then back again.)
• French curl marble  + (A marble pattern that has been used for en … A marble pattern that has been used for endpapers, particularly in France, since about 1660. The pattern is made on a marbling size of gum tragacanth, and the colors are dropped on in the same manner as with the nonpareil marble.</br></br>The curls are made with the use of a wooden frame constructed in the form of a small harrow, each parallel bar being set with as many tapering wooden pegs as there are curls required on the sheet to be marbled. The difficulty in executing this pattern is to "catch" the curls before they lose their shape.h" the curls before they lose their shape.)
• Tips  + (A method of reinforcing the corners of a book cover with leather or cloth, which is subsequently covered on the outside of the board but can just be seen at the corner on the inside of the board.)
• Adhesive structure bindings  + (A method of securing loose leaves into a solid text block by means of an adhesive rather than by means of sewing, stitching, etc.)
• Side sewing  + (A method of securing the leaves of section … A method of securing the leaves of sections of a book with thread near the binding edge, from front to back through the entire thickness of the text block. When a book is said to be side sewn, it is implied that the text block does not consist of individual sections which are first fastened by themselves and then to each other, but that all of the leaves are sewn through at one time.f the leaves are sewn through at one time.)
• Inlays (decorative components)  + (A piece of leather, of the same thickness … A piece of leather, of the same thickness as the leather covering of a book, but usually of a contrasting color, grain, or both, cut to a desired shape for placing into the leather covering, from which a piece of the exact same size and shape has been removedexact same size and shape has been removed)
• Divinity calf  + (A plain, drab, kahki colored calfskin binding, popular in the mid-19th century for theological and devotional books.)
• Blocking press  + (A press which heats blocks and impresses lettering. designs, etc., into the covers of books.)
• Press  + (A relatively simple piece of machinery use … A relatively simple piece of machinery used to apply pressure evenly over the surface of a material, e.g., one of the various screw presses used to keep a book or books in position under pressure to effect adhesion of pasted or glued adherends, or for some other purposeglued adherends, or for some other purpose)
• Custom binding  + (A single binding made by a bookbinder, which is not part of an [[edition binding]].)
• Custom binding  + (A single binding made by a bookbinder, which is not part of an [[edition binding]].)

• Binder's ticket  + (A small label giving the name, and sometimes the address, of the binder.)

• Binder's stamp  + (A small stamp blind tooled, gold tooled, or inked identifying the binder or bindery.)
• Paste  + (A soft, tenacious, pliable adhesive usually with a starch base.)
• Velour paper  + (A speciality cover paper produced by coating the sheet with size, either all over or in patterns or designs, and then applying specially dyed flock powder.)
• Blankbook binding  + (A style of binding for books meant to be written in and which, therefore, must lie flat at any place the book is open.)
• Half binding  + (A style of binding in which the spine and part of the side of the book, as well as the four corners, are covered with one kind of material, e.g., leather, cloth, etc., and the sides with another material, e.g., cloth or paper.)
• Ajoure bindings  + (A style of bookbinding executed during the … A style of bookbinding executed during the last third of the 15th century in Venice. Ajoure bindings were embellished with pierced or translucent patterns, in a manner referred to as "letting in the daylight." They generally featured openwork designs of foliage, angels' heads, satyr-masks, birds, baskets of fruits, etc.atyr-masks, birds, baskets of fruits, etc.)
• Aldine style  + (A style of bookbinding originated by Aldus Manutius but not restricted to the books printed by Aldus or his family.)
• Ève style  + (A style of decoration executed by the Fren … A style of decoration executed by the French bookbinders, Nicholas Eve (fl 1578-1582). and his son or nephew, Clovis (fl 1584-1635). They were the Court binders and booksellers to Henri III, Henri IV, and Louis XIII during the period in which they flourished. Typical designs of their bindings included a field powdered with fleur-de-lis, and, occasionally, a center piece of the Crucifixion on the Royal Armspiece of the Crucifixion on the Royal Arms)
• All-over style  + (A style of finishing in which the entire cover, as distinct from the corners, center or borders, is decorated by a single motif, multiple motifs, or a decorative roll.)
• Bandstick  + (A tapering length of hard, smooth wood, used in pressing and smoothing the leather on the spine between the raised bands.)
• Machine binding  + (A term sometimes applied to early machine produced (edition) bindings of the 19th century.)
• Machine binding  + (A term sometimes applied to the type of bo … A term sometimes applied to the type of bookbinding in which equipment is employed extensively, as contrasted with the type in which relatively little machinery is employed. Machine binding would include mainly edition and pamphlet bindings, and possibly library bindings.t bindings, and possibly library bindings.)
• Girdle book  + (A term that does not really describe bindings but a feature pertaining to either a primary or secondary cover on a binding that would allow a book to be attached to a belt or girdle.)
• Folder  + (A thin length of wood, bone, ivory, or oth … A thin length of wood, bone, ivory, or other material, from 6 to 12 inches long, and 1 to 1 1/2 inches wide. The typical folder is approximately 1/8 inch thick. It is tapered to the edges, has rounded edges and ends, and is used in folding sheets by hand and cutting bolts, and also in numerous binding operations., and also in numerous binding operations.)
• Blocking foil  + (A thin plastic film with a high vacuum deposit of gold or other metal and backed by a pressure-sensitive adhesive. They are used in the same way as gold leaf, the impression being obtained by means of a heated die, block, type, etc.)
• Thumb index  + (A type of index which utilizes a series of rounded notches cut into the fore edge of the book. Each generally has a label bearing a letter or letters indicating the arrangement. The index proceeds from head to tail and front to back of the volume.)
• Gilding press  + (A type of press used to hold several books at once while their edges are gilded)
• Fine binding  + (A unique or limited edition binding intended to be considered as a work of art in itself.)
• Morocco  + (A vegetable tanned leather having a characteristic pinhead grain pattern developed either naturally or by means of graining or boarding, but never by embossing.)
• Textile bindings  + (A very ornate style of fabric binding, pop … A very ornate style of fabric binding, popular in England and France during the Renaissance, and in England into the 18th century. The books were sumptuously bound in satin and velvet of various colors, and were often embellished with needlework in multi-colored silks, as well as gold and silver threads.silks, as well as gold and silver threads.)
• Jogger  + (A vibrating device used to produce a smooth-sided pile of paper stock before trimming, folding, binding, etc., or to align and position any material for any purpose during a production run.)
• Fillet  + (A wheel-shaped finishing tool having one o … A wheel-shaped finishing tool having one or more raised bands on its circumference. It is used to impress a line or parallel lines on the covering material of a book, usually one bound in leather. The lines may be continuous or the fillets may have a wedge-shaped gap in the circumference to facilitate starting and stopping lines and also to enable lines to be joined evenly at corners.able lines to be joined evenly at corners.)
• Techniques  + (All the decorative techniques that may be applied to the external surfaces of a book (covers and bookblock edges) and the insides of the boards or cover, as well decorated papers, furniture and fastenings and enclosures.)
• Decorating techniques  + (All the decorative techniques that may be applied to the external surfaces of a book (covers and bookblock edges) and the insides of the boards or cover, as well decorated papers, furniture and fastenings and enclosures.)
• Spine features  + (All the features relating to the formation, function, decoration and titling of the spine of a book and the spine covering.)