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• 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.)
• Beating hammers  + (en:A heavy, short-handled hammer, with a c … en:A heavy, short-handled hammer, with a convex face, used in beating the leaves and sections of a book so as to flatten and compress them. Such hammers generally weigh 10 to 14 pounds (4.5 to 6.3 kg), and sometimes even up to 16 pounds (7.2 kg). The introduction of the rolling machine (1827) made the beating hammer virtually obsolete.ade the beating hammer virtually obsolete.)
• Paring knife  + (en:A knife used for paring the edges of leather to be turned over the edges of the boards. The knife has its cutting edge at the end, and is ground flat on the underside and beveled on the upper.)
• Standing press  + (en:A large floor press, at one time used e … en:A large floor press, at one time used extensively in virtually all binderies for operations requiring the application of great pressure; it is used today almost exclusively in hand binding. Pressure is applied by means of a platen which usually is powered by turning a screw, first by hand, then with a short bar, and finally, in operations requiring very great pressure, by means of a long pin. The size and weight of this type of press permit exertion of very great pressure.ss permit exertion of very great pressure.)
• Barm skin  + (en:A leather apron sometimes worn by a bookbinder)
• Rejointed  + (en:A leather binding that has had one or both joints repaired or replaced)
• Morocco cloth  + (en:A linen cloth finished with a grain pattern resembling leather, usually a straight-grained morocco.)
• Folder  + (en:A thin length of wood, bone, ivory, or … en: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.)
• Guillotine cutter  + (en: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  + (en:A marble pattern consisting or red, bla … en: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  + (en: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  + (nb:hjørner ofte av pergament, festet ytterst på permhjørnene på kvartbind for å beskytte hjørnene når overtrekket var papir)
• Adhesive structure bindings  + (en:Bindings in which the gatherings are he … en:Bindings in which the gatherings are held together by adhesive only, without any form of sewing or stitching. They may, however, be reinforced by glueing strips of material into recesses cut across the spine. The earliest examples of European adhesive bindings recorded on printed books are English, with one example dating from the 1620s and a small group from the period 1670-1690. German examples have been identified from the second half of the eighteenth-century and very occasionally in England at the end of the eighteenth century. The small number of survivals from these early periods is a reflection either of the ephemeral nature of some of the texts bound in this manner, or the inherent instability of such structures before the introduction of flexible adhesives. The so-called 'Perfect binding' patented in 1836 and probably first used in 1839 (Middleton, p.30), in which caoutchouc was used as the adhesive, proved no more durable.d as the adhesive, proved no more durable.)
• Side sewing  + (en:A method of securing the leaves of sect … en: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)  + (en:A piece of leather, of the same thickne … en: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  + (en:A plain, drab, kahki colored calfskin binding, popular in the mid-19th century for theological and devotional books.)
• Blocking press  + (en:A press which heats blocks and impresses lettering. designs, etc., into the covers of books.)
• Press  + (en:A relatively simple piece of machinery … en: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  + (en:A single binding made by a bookbinder, which is not part of an [[edition binding]].)
• Binder's ticket  + (en:A small label giving the name, and sometimes the address, of the binder.)
• Binder's stamp  + (en:A small stamp blind tooled, gold tooled, or inked identifying the binder or bindery.)

• Paste  + (en:A soft, tenacious, pliable adhesive usually with a starch base.)

• Velour paper  + (en: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  + (en: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  + (en: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  + (en:A style of bookbinding executed during … en: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  + (en:A style of bookbinding originated by Aldus Manutius but not restricted to the books printed by Aldus or his family.)
• Ève style  + (en:A style of decoration executed by the F … en: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  + (en: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  + (en:A tapering length of hard, smooth wood, used in pressing and smoothing the leather on the spine between the raised bands.)
• Machine binding  + (en:A term sometimes applied to the type of … en: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  + (fr:hmm)
• Folder  + (en:A thin length of wood, bone, ivory, or … en: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  + (en: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  + (en: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  + (en:A type of press used to hold several books at once while their edges are gilded)
• Fine binding  + (en:A unique or limited edition binding intended to be considered as a work of art in itself.)
• Morocco  + (en: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  + (en:A very ornate style of fabric binding, … en: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  + (en: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  + (en:A wheel-shaped finishing tool having on … en: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.)
• Spine features  + (en:All the features relating to the formation, function, decoration and titling of the spine of a book and the spine covering.)
• Covering techniques  + (en:All the processes involved in turning a piece of sheet material into a cover for a book.)
• Cambridge style  + (en:An English style of bookbinding practic … en:An English style of bookbinding practiced largely on theological works and in university libraries. Although used elsewhere, the style was so highly favored by binders in Cambridge in the early years of the 18th century that it became recognized as their speciality, which probably accounts for the name. Books bound in this style were sewn on raised cords, covered in calfskin that was masked and sprinkled in such a manner as to leave a stained central rectangular panel, a plain rectangular frame, which, in turn, was surrounded by a stained outside frame. The books had Dutch marble endpapers and red edges. The spine was pieced with red russia leather labels and had double blind lines at head and tail on each side of the raised bands. The covers were decorated with a two-line fillet close to the edges and on each side of the panel. and with a narrow flower roll worked on each side of the panel close to the lines. There were many variations of this style, including some books tooled in gold, and some with marbled covers and sprinkled panels. with marbled covers and sprinkled panels.)
• Bag binding  + (en:An additional protective covering provided a book. It is usually made of leather.)
• Fanfare style  + (en:An elaborate style of decoration consis … en:An elaborate style of decoration consisting generally of geometrically formed compartments of varying sizes, each bounded by a ribbon consisting of a single fillet on one side and a double fillet on the other, each of which, with the exception of the center compartment (which is larger or otherwise distinguished), being filled with leafy spirals, branches of laurel, and other spraysrals, branches of laurel, and other sprays)
• Steamboat boards  + (en:Any boards used for cutting books out of boards)