Bookbinding is the process of building a book, usually in codex format, from an ordered stack of paper sheets with one's hands and tools, or in modern...
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Traditional Chinese bookbinding, also called stitched binding (Chinese: 線裝 xian zhuang), is the method of bookbinding that the Chinese, Koreans, Japanese...
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term doublure is of French origin. Tooled doublures are found in French bookbinding of the seventeenth century: in particular, they are associated with the...
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In bookbinding, a section, gathering, or signature is a group of sheets folded in half, to be worked into the binding as a unit. The section is the basic...
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In bookbinding, finishing refers to the process of decorating the outside of a book, including the lettering of the spine and covers, any additional tooling...
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Buckram (section Use in bookbinding)
Bokhara unlikely. Several of buckram's qualities make it attractive for bookbinding. Highly durable, buckram does not allow the bookbinder's paste to seep...
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Highgrove Florilegium (section Bookbinding)
The Highgrove Florilegium: Watercolours depicting plants grown in the garden at Highgrove is a two-volume book of botanical illustrations recording plants...
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Treasure binding (redirect from Jewelled Bookbindings)
jewelled bookbinding is a luxurious book cover using metalwork in gold or silver, jewels, or ivory, perhaps in addition to more usual bookbinding material...
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The Wikibook Bookbinding has a page on the topic of: Long stitch In the art of bookbinding, the longstitch technique is used for binding the sections...
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Coptic binding (redirect from Coptic bookbinding)
Coptic binding or Coptic sewing comprises methods of bookbinding employed by early Christians in Egypt, the Copts, and used from as early as the 2nd century...
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In bookbinding, swell refers to the increased thickness of a textblock along its spine edge after sewing. Swell is a function of the number of sections...
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It has been used since antiquity for various arts and crafts such as bookbinding, découpage, collage, papier-mâché, and adhering paper posters and notices...
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John Fowler Trow (redirect from Trow Directory, Printing & Bookbinding Co.)
and the Bronx, city of New York1903-1911. Trow Directory, Printing & Bookbinding Co. 1898. Trow's Business Directory of the Borough of Queens. NY. 1899...
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A signature mark, in traditional bookbinding, is a letter, number or combination of either or both, which is printed at the bottom of the first page,...
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In bookbinding, inlays and onlays are pieces of leather adhered to the cover of a book, usually differing in color, grain, or both from the main covering...
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Stiffening (category Bookbinding)
art, industry, architecture, sports, aerospace, object construction, bookbinding, etc. In mechanics, "stiffening" beams brings anti-buckling, anti-wrinkling...
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Printing, Bookbinding and Paper Workers (NUPBPW) was a British trade union. The union was founded in 1921 as the National Union of Printing, Bookbinding, Machine...
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Davenport, Cyril (1899), Pollard, Alfred (ed.), English Embroidered Bookbindings, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co, OCLC 705685 Dobson, Michael...
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September 1909 – 18 February 1983) was a British librarian and historian of bookbinding. He was a librarian at the British Museum then Librarian of Westminster...
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Old Bazaar (Gjakova) (section Bookbinding)
Bookbinding tool used by Bajram Jusuf Doli (mucelit) from Gjakova...
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traditional arts and crafts, including letter writing, calligraphy, bookbinding, and painting. He was an apprentice to Connecticut-based potter Guy Wolff...
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Abbasid art (section Bookbinding)
dissemination of the Qur'an also came the growth of Arabic calligraphy, bookbinding techniques, and illumination styles. This expansion and establishment...
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Limp binding (category Bookbinding)
Limp binding is a bookbinding method in which the book has flexible cloth, leather, vellum, or (rarely) paper sides. When the sides of the book are made...
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Pastiglia (section Plaquettes in bookbinding)
typically used to describe them, it is appropriate to mention "plaquette" bookbindings here. These are luxury leather bindings which incorporate, normally at...
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Samizdat concealed within a bookbinding; seen in the Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights, Vilnius...
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to: 8O, IATA code for West Coast Air 8º (also 8o), an abbreviation in bookbinding for Octavo 8º, an abbreviation for eighth in some languages 8º TAP Rallye...
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book art, such as printing, printmaking, papermaking, typography and bookbinding. American colleges began offering book art programs in the 1980s, including...
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Guild of Women-Binders (category Bookbinding)
exhibit their work in his London shop; this "Exhibition of Artistic Bookbinding by Women," which ran from November 1897 to February 1898, garnered a...
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Daniel G. Knowlton (section Bookbinding work)
bookbinding in Washington, D.C. under Marion Lane, who was trained by preeminent binder Francis Sangorski of London. In 1935, he acquired bookbinding...
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