Beating stones

From Multilingual Bookbinding Dictionary
Revision as of 11:56, 10 September 2020 by Adminsuzy (talk | contribs) (Text replacement - "\[\[Broader\:\:(.*)\]\]" to "{{#set: Broader = $1}}")
Jump to navigation Jump to search

http://w3id.org/lob/concept/3548

beating stones http://w3id.org/lob/ A block of marble or fine lime stone, the top surface of which is dressed absolutely smooth and on which the gatherings were beaten. It would appear that in Germany the binders sat to beat books on low blocks whereas the Dutch binders stood to do this work.

Retrieved from "https://www.digialcellulose.com/wiki/index.php?title=Beating_stones&oldid=151015"