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• Beating  + (The process of flattening and consolidating the leaves or gatherings of a printed book before sewing by beating them with a heavy hammer.)
• Stitching (techniques)  + (The process of holding bookblocks together by stabbing a material such as thread, textile tape, parchment or tanned or tawed skin thongs through the inner margin of an entire bookblock)
• Rounding  + (The process of molding the spine of a text block into an arc of approximately one-third of a circle, which in the process produces the characteristic concave fore edge of the book.)
• Pulling  + (The process of reducing a bound book to individual sections or loose leaves.)
• Whip stitching  + (The process of sewing single sheets into "sections," the number of sheets so sewn depending on the thickness of the paper. The "sections" are then sewn on tapes or cords in the usual manner of hand sewing.)
• Backing  + (The process of shaping a ridge or [[shoulder]] … The process of shaping a ridge or [[shoulder]] on each side of the spine of a text block prior to the application of the [[spine lining]] material. The backs of the sewn sections or leaves are bent over from the center to the left and right until shoulders are formed against which the boards will fit. formed against which the boards will fit.)
• Paring  + (The process of thinning leather by cutting away the flesh side, or shaving the edges, i.e., beveling the edges that are to be turned in.)
• Blocking  + (The process or technique of impressing a design into the covering material of a book by means of a stamp or block having an engraved or etched surface.)
• Forwarding  + (The processes or steps involved in binding a book up to the point at which it is ready to be decorated. This will normally be thought to include sewing and covering, though some definitions of forwarding exclude either one or the other or both.)
• Leather  + (The skin or hide of an animal that has been tanned to render it resistant to putrefication and relatively soft and flexible when dry.)
• Kettle stitch  + (The stitch made near the head and tail of a book sewn on tapes or cords, and which holds the sections (other than the first and last) together.)
• Binding  + (The structures and, if present, the covers used to hold together and protect the leaves of a bookblock and which allow them to be opened at the fore-edge.)
• Bindings  + (The structures and, if present, the covers used to hold together and protect the leaves of a bookblock and which allow them to be opened at the fore-edge.)
• Finishing  + (The term finishing includes all the decora … The term finishing includes all the decorated processes that follow the process of forwarding the binding, and include polishing, lettering and decorating the covering material both on the inside and the outside of the covers, the pastedowns and endleaves and sometimes the edges of the book. It also includes inlaying, onlaying, varnishing, staining and otherwise decorating and/or protecting the finished bookbinding. The materials that were decorated before they were used to cover the book (i.e. embossing) and the finishing of adhesive and lace-attached covers will be done off the book and therefore before the final stage of the forwarding process. Individual finishing techniques will be found under decorating techniques, surface coating techniques and identification techniques. techniques and identification techniques.)
• Finishing tools  + (The tools most often of copper alloy, some … The tools most often of copper alloy, sometimes of iron or steel with engraved or cast designs that were used to impress those designs into the covering materials of books. Finishing tools could be used in the hand (handle tools) or in presses (blocks, panel stamps).ols) or in presses (blocks, panel stamps).)
• Blank leaves  + (The unprinted leaves at the front and back of a book. They may be an integral part of the book as received from the publisher...or they may be added by the bookbinder. They are not necessarily part of the endpapers)
• Hand tools  + (The various finishing tools which have som … The various finishing tools which have some device or design cut on the end of a brass shank. They are used separately or in conjunction with each other, as well as with line tools to form patterns. They may be "solid" or "line" in form, and when meant to be used by hand, generally do not exceed 3/4 by 3/1 inch in sizeally do not exceed 3/4 by 3/1 inch in size)
• Binder's board  + (The wood, pasted paper, single- or multiple-ply sheets, or other base stock, for the covers of any bound or cased book, i.e., any book in hard covers.)
• Cover  + (There are two types of cover which may typ … There are two types of cover which may typically be found on a book, primary and secondary. The primary cover is the material that constitutes the immediate covering of the completed binding, but not including additional, secondary, covers such as chemises or decorated paper over a plain primary cover. For inboard bindings, the primary covering material is used to cover the boards and spine, either completely, as in full bindings, or partially, as in half and quarter bindings. In all case bindings, and bindings with external sewing supports and longstitch bindings, the case itself may also be the covering material, and thus serve a dual function as both primary covering (which therefore may be given a secondary, decorated cover) and structural component. A secondary cover can be added in addition to a primary cover (but cannot be a secondary cover unless there is a primary cover already in place), either as protection or further embellishment of the book. In the latter case they are often made from decorated materials (most often textile or paper), but purely protective secondary covers can be made made from plain materials such as tanned or alum-tawed skins or paper, or recycled paper or parchment. They may be contemporary with and part of a complete binding, or may have been added afterwards (sometimes many years afterwards) to suit the taste and needs of a later owner. Many bindings with primary covers in parchment also have a lining of white paper under the parchment, intended both to brighten the parchment and make it opaque and also to soften the parchment with the moisture from the adhesive used to stick together so that it could be moulded around the book. Such linings on Dutch laced-case bindings with boards were adhered to the fleshside of the parchment before the book was covered, and could not be described as primary covers, but linings on Dutch inboard bindings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were usually adhered to the book before the parchment was adhered around it. Such lining could therefore be thought of as primary covers, but their intended use as a lining and the fact that they would never have been left as covers in themselves means that they should always be thought of as a lining of the primary cover and not as an actual primary cover. Some bindings with embroidered covers may have similar linings.broidered covers may have similar linings.)
• Tying-up boards  + (Thin, sturdy boards with right-angle projections, used to protect the sides and fore edges of the leather of a book during [[tying up]])
• Tools and equipment  + (Tools and equipment used in the process of bookbinding, conservation, or papermaking.)
• Backing press  + (Typically refers to the larger standing press version, not a tabletop/portable press.)
• Pieced  + (Where a piece of material, such as a cover … Where a piece of material, such as a cover, board or endleaf, which is not large enough for its purpose has been filled in with a separate piece of the same or a similar material. A cover therefore might consist of one piece of leather for the spine and one for each side in order to create a full cover of apparently the same material. This is distinct from patch material where some damage or loss has been made good.re some damage or loss has been made good.)
• Canivet  + (a technique known as canivet, in which a s … a technique known as canivet, in which a small knife was used to cut ornate patterns into paper or parchment. An art form that flourished originally among nuns in France, Germany, and the Netherlands beginning in the 15th century, it was employed to exceptional effect in several manuscripts connected with Marie de' Médicisnuscripts connected with Marie de' Médicis)
• Square  + (fr:Difference between edges of textblock and edge of case or boards)

• Endband  + (de:Headband)

• Gold stamping  + (de:Refers to noun that is the result of gold stamping, not the action of stamping.)
• Test  + (definition of cited translation)
• Test  + (definition test)
• Overcasting  + (en:"A method of hand sewing in which groups of single sheets are sewn together using a single length of thread which passes through the paper and over the back edges of the leaves.)
• Lyonnaise style  + (en:A 16th century style of book decoration … en:A 16th century style of book decoration featuring broad interlaced geometrical strapwork, usually gold tooled and then painted, lacquered, or enamelled in different colors. Lyonnaise was also a style in which the binding was decorated by blocking the cover with large corner ornaments and a predominant center design, roughly lozenge shaped. the all-over background being filled in with dots.over background being filled in with dots.)
• Wire sewing  + (en:A 19th century method of "sewing" the sections of a book through the folds and onto tapes, webbings, or muslin, by means of wire staples.)
• Full leather  + (en:A binding where all parts of the primary binding (including boards, spine, and corners) are covered solely in leather, with no other types of covering material (such as cloth, or paper) used.)
• Signed bindings  + (en:A binding whose binder can be identified from a binder's ticket, binder's stamp, or other marking on the binding itself that references a specific bookbinder or bindery.)
• Album  + (en:A book of blank leaves designed to contain written records, clippings, postage stamps, and the like.)
• Pulled  + (en:A book which has been taken apart for rebinding.)
• Padded boards  + (en:A book which has boards padded with cotton batting, blotting paper, or other compressible material, so that they are thicker than normal boards, especially toward the center, and are soft to the touch.)
• Felt  + (en:A cloth produced from matted fibers of wool, or wool and fur or hair, and made into a compact material by compression, usually while wet)
• Center and corner piece style  + (en:A common style of decoration, essential … en:A common style of decoration, essentially Eastern in origin, featuring a center ornament, circular or (occasionally) oval in shape, and often [[arabesque]], in combination with corner pieces generally made up of a quarter segment of the center ornament. a quarter segment of the center ornament.)
• Self-cover  + (en:A cover printed on the same stock and in the same format as the text, with the cover pages being so imposed that when the sheet is folded they will appear as the upper and lower covers of the book, which is usually a single-section pamphlet.)
• Nipping up  + (en:A covering technique which involves pressing the leather around the raised bands after it has been drawn over the spine of the book.)
• Plough  + (en:A device used for trimming the leaves of a book, usually one bound by hand.)
• Peacock marble  + (en:A drawn marble pattern that is essentia … en:A drawn marble pattern that is essentially a variation of the NONPAREIL MARBLE , the difference being that after the colors (black, blue, yellow, and red; or black, brown, yellow, and white) have been drawn by the stylus into wavy lines, they are then drawn with a comb, which is extendible in such a manner that it is made wider and narrower at intervals of 1/2 inch. This widening and narrowing is continued until the entire surface is crossed by this opening and closing comb, resulting in a pattern resembling the tail of a peacock. pattern resembling the tail of a peacock.)
• Hollow back  + (nb:hulrom som oppstår mellom bokblokkens rygg og overtrekksmaterialet når boken åpnes, fordi overtrekksmaterialet ikke er klebet direkte på bokblokkens rygg eller til ryggfôringen)
• Endband  + (sv:Headband)
• Adhesive  + (en:A general term for any of several substances capable of bonding materials to each other by chemical or mechanical action, or both, and which may be activated by water, non-aqueous solvents, pressure, heat, cold, or other means.)
• Edge decoration  + (en:A general term used with reference to the application of gold leaf, color, ink, or other medium, or the tooling, painting, or other form of decoration, of one or more edges of a book.)
• Book cloth  + (en:A generic term for the woven fabrics us … en:A generic term for the woven fabrics used in covering books. They are usually, but by no means always, woven cotton fabrics, which may be bleached or mercerized, dyed, filled with pigment colors, gelatinized, starched, coated or impregnated, calendered, and embossed (grained).nated, calendered, and embossed (grained).)
• Knocking out the groove  + (en:The process employed when rebinding a book that was backed in the original binding, in which the bend in each section caused by the backing is removed.)
• Beating  + (en:The process of flattening and consolidating the leaves or gatherings of a printed book before sewing by beating them with a heavy hammer.)
• Case-making machine  + (en:A hand- or machine-fed machine used to … en:A hand- or machine-fed machine used to assemble the covering material, boards, and inlays of case-bound edition books. Case-making machines are of two general types: sheet fed, either by hand or machine, and roll fed, by machine. Roll fed machines require two additional steps in their operation as compared with sheet-fed machines, namely, corner cutting and separation of the individual cases. The covering material, however, does not have to be pre-cut. Sheet fed machines receive the covering material in the correct size for the individual case with the corners already cut.ividual case with the corners already cut.)