Practical bookbinding : a text-book intended for those who take up the art of bookbinding, and designed to give sufficient help to enable handy persons to bind their books and periodicals . d a solid support—such asa strip of vellum pasted on to thick paper, or a lengthof catgut, or a piece of ordinary twine which hasbeen covered by pasting around it a piece of plainpaper. In the selection of silk for the purpose, thegreat variety of colours offers plenty of scope forarranging a combination of two or three differentcolours, which will form a good contrast both withthe finished edges and the co
Practical bookbinding : a text-book intended for those who take up the art of bookbinding, and designed to give sufficient help to enable handy persons to bind their books and periodicals . d a solid support—such asa strip of vellum pasted on to thick paper, or a lengthof catgut, or a piece of ordinary twine which hasbeen covered by pasting around it a piece of plainpaper. In the selection of silk for the purpose, thegreat variety of colours offers plenty of scope forarranging a combination of two or three differentcolours, which will form a good contrast both withthe finished edges and the covering to be used, or, ifpreferable, one colour only may be adopted. Which-ever choice is made, the method of wrapping is thesame. We may therefore assume, for convenience,that two colours, yellow and blue, have been selected, PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. 8l and that these are to be worked into the the aid of Figs. 63 and 64, and with a briefexplanation, we trust the reader will be able to under-stand the method of procedure, which is really verysimple, but requires a fair amount of practice beforeefficiency is attained. The book should be fixed in the press quite firmly,. Fig. 63. at about the inclination shown in Figs. 63 and strip of the material which it has been decidedto use as the foundation is cut off somewhat longerthan the thickness of the book, and the silk shouldbe cut into suitable needle lengths. One end of theblue is tied to the yellow and the needle is thenthreaded with the former. 6 82 PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. The head-band is commenced on the left-handside of the book, first by pushing the needle down-wards through the middle of the leaves of the secondsection—on no account through the end needle should be held at such an angle that itwill come out just below the kettle stitch. The bluesilk passes through after the needle ; the yellowsilk is prevented from passing through owing to theknot previously tied, and is then brought up overt
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