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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Davenport, Cyril (1899), Pollard, Alfred (ed.), English Embroidered Bookbindings, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co, OCLC 705685 Dobson, Michael...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    also used in the printing trades to aid in setting movable type and in bookbinding. A small copper awl from a Tel Tsaf grave in Israel is currently the...
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    Bookbinding tool used by Bajram Jusuf Doli (mucelit) from Gjakova...
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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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    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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    Samizdat concealed within a bookbinding; seen in the Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights, Vilnius...
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    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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    Ottoman miniature (taswir), calligraphy (hat), Islamic calligraphy, bookbinding (cilt) and paper marbling (ebru). In the Ottoman Empire, illuminated...
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  • Venezuela). He authored two major works, A History of English Craft Bookbinding Technique (1963) and The Restoration of Leather Bindings (1972), which...
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    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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    surface for calligraphy, and especially book covers and endpapers in bookbinding and stationery. Part of its appeal is that each print is a unique monotype...
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    furniture. Paste papers are used as endpapers and covering papers in bookbinding, furniture linings, and wallpaper. As an historical and living art form...
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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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    of the dingbat symbols have been used as signature marks or used in bookbinding to order sections.[citation needed] In the computer industry, a dingbat...
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    This article about making art out of books, the arts related to bookbinding, or the design of mass-produced books is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by...
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