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• 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.)
• Boards (components)  + (en:Boards are rigid or semi-rigid components made from one or more pieces of sheet material used to protect and support a bookblock. There will usually be at least two boards, one on each side of the bookblock.)
• Bind from sheets  + (en:Bookbinding which originates from the flat or folded sheets, usually the former, as received from the printer.)
• Mosaic bindings  + (en:Bookbindings decorated by inlaying or onlaying small pieces of leather of various colors to form patterns.)
• Steamboating  + (en:Cutting books out of boards, a number being cut at the same time.)
• Paste paper  + (en:Decorative endpapers and cover papers produced by pressing or sliding objects into a wet paste or starch mixture that has been spread on the paper.)
• Red edges  + (en:Edges of a textblock that have been colored red.)
• 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)
• Plant materials  + (en:Fibrous organic materials and extracts derived from plants and trees.)
• Hand tools  + (en:Finishing tools fitted with wooden handles and impressed by hand as opposed to blocks, panels, etc. which have to be used in presses. Hand tools will therefore include small hand tools, hand letters, rolls, fillets and pallets.)
• Index  + (en:In bookbinding, the words, letters, num … en:In bookbinding, the words, letters, numbers, etc., printed, stamped or pasted in alphabetical, numerical, or other order: 1) in spaces cut or gouged in the fore edge of the book; 2) tabs attached to the leaves at the fore edge; or 3) printed on the leaves of the book, or on separate sheets to be inserted in their proper position in the book. The purpose of the index is to facilitate quick reference to the contents.acilitate quick reference to the contents.)
• Forwarding  + (en: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.)
• Gift binding  + (en:In the usual application, a leather binding produced for presentation, such as a retirement signature book.)
• Hand letters  + (en:Individual letters, numerals, etc., cut in brass and attached to wooden or asbestos handles, and used to letter a book by hand.)
• Cosway bindings  + (en:Leather bookbindings produced in the usual manner, except that they have miniature paintings inset into their covers.)
• Marbled leather  + (en:Leather that has been given a marbled appearance as a result of a decoration process utilizing dyes, stains, or acids.)
• Straight grained leather  + (en:Leather with artificial creases in one direction.)
• Book trimming machine  + (en:Machines, equipped with a guilotine-like blade or blades, used to trim the edges of books.)
• Trough-marbled paper  + (en:Paper decorated by trough-marbling, which involves a transfer of colours floating on the surface of a liquid in a trough to the paper.)
• Label  + (en:Pieces of sheet material, most often co … en:Pieces of sheet material, most often coloured tanned skin, paper or parchment, adhered or otherwise attached to the outside of a binding, bearing information about the contents of the book (typically the author's name and the title), a press or shelfmark, a price, etc. The information may be given in manuscript, tooled or printed.be given in manuscript, tooled or printed.)
• Band nippers  + (en:Pincers which have broad, flat jaws, used for straightening the bands of a book sewn on raised cords, and also for nipping up the leather during covering.)
• Trade binding  + (en:Plain calfskin or sheepskin bindings issued by publishers in England from the 15th to the 18th centuries. They were rarely lettered.)
• Decorated paper  + (en:Plain papers decorated by various means, which might include trough-marbling, stencilling, sprinkling, hand-colouring, block-printing, etc.)
• Wooden boards  + (en:Plank-like wooden boards ranging in thi … en:Plank-like wooden boards ranging in thickness from approximately 4 to 20 mm (and occasionally thicker), as opposed to scaleboards which will be found in the range 1 to 3 mm. Thick wooden boards will often be shaped around the edges or across the outer surface and will usually have holes or tunnels drilled in them for the slips of sewing supports and/or endband cores.s of sewing supports and/or endband cores.)
• Endband  + (sv:Headband)

• Endband  + (en:Refers to just the endband at the tail of the book.)

• In the square  + (en:Refers to when a technique is done after [[sewing]] the [[textblock]], but before [[rounding]].)
• Chemise  + (en:Secondary covers fitted over a primary cover and often held in place without adhesive by sewn pockets which fit over the fore-edges of the boards.)
• Spine inlay  + (nb:pappremse plassert langs bokblokkens rygg festet til overtrekksmaterialet)
• French paring knife  + (en:The French paring knife is rounded along the edge)
• Gilding  + (en:The art or process of adhering thin metal leaf to a surface, e.g., the leather cover or edges of a book, so as to approximate the effect of solid or inlaid metal.)
• Text block  + (en:The body of a book, consisting of the [[leaves]], or [[sections]], making up the unit to be [[bound]], [[rebound]], or [[restored]].)
• Publisher's binding  + (en:The business of binding identical books in quantity, usually for a publisher or distributor, as opposed to binding done for an individual and library binding)
• Loose-leaf binding  + (en:The business of binding individual sheets of paper in an exchangeable form, for leaves to be added, removed, or relocated in the book. Loose-leaf bindings are used wherever records of repeatedly changing information must be kept.)
• Cover components  + (en:The components used in the covering of books.)
• Trimming  + (en:The operation in which bound books and other printed materials are reduced to their final size before casing or attachment of the hoards.)
• Grain direction  + (en:The direction in which the greater numb … en:The direction in which the greater number of the fibers of a sheet of paper tend to be oriented as a result of the forward motion of the wire of the papermaking machine. The paper so produced is stronger in the machine direction, and also experiences less dimensional variation in the machine direction due to changes in humidity.hine direction due to changes in humidity.)
• Rough gilt  + (en:The edges of a book that have been cut solid and gilded before sewing, so that when the book is later sewn the edges are slightly uneven (rough), although usually to an almost imperceptible extent.)
• Gilt edge  + (en:The edges of a book which have been trimmed, sized, primed with Armenian bole, covered with gold leaf, and burnished.)
• Uncut  + (en:The edges of a newly printed book which have not been cut or trimmed, thus leaving the bolts, '''which must be cut before the book can be read'''. Until this is done the book is said to be unopened.)
• Tail  + (en:The lower or bottom edge of a book, usually implying the very edge of the covers and spine.)
• Acanthus  + (en:The name given a leaf of the acanthus plant (Acanthus spinosus) introduced as ornamentation in ancient Greek architecture.)
• Tying up  + (en:The process by which a covering skin on the spine of a book is held tightly to the bookblock, especially on each side of the raised bands and at the caps, by a length of cord wrapped tightly across the spine.)
• 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.)
• Nipping  + (en:The process of applying heavy pressure of short duration to a case-bound book for the purpose of setting the joints before the adhesive used in casing-in sets.)
• Wringing down  + (en:The process of bringing the platen of a press closer to the bed plate, i.e. screwing a press shut.)
• Case in  + (en:The process of creating a case binding by securing the text block and attached endpapers into a case that was produced as a separate operation, lettered and (especially in edition binding) sometimes decorated.)
• Knocking up  + (en:The process of evening up one or two edges of a pile of sheets so that they can be cut squarely, or for some other purpose requiring squared-up sheets.)
• 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.)
• Stitching (techniques)  + (nb:hefteteknikk som utføres langsetter og fra utsiden av ryggen på bokblokken)
• Rounding  + (en: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.)