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 . covered, the possibility of a very unpleasant swellingon the outside at these points is avoided (see Fig. 38).For whole or half binding, the corners at the back 6o PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. edge of the boards should also be cut away, as isshown in Fig. 39, Lacing In.—The projecting lengths of the laycords on each side of the book are ravelled with the PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. f)I bodkin until all are divided


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 . covered, the possibility of a very unpleasant swellingon the outside at these points is avoided (see Fig. 38).For whole or half binding, the corners at the back 6o PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. edge of the boards should also be cut away, as isshown in Fig. 39, Lacing In.—The projecting lengths of the laycords on each side of the book are ravelled with the PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. f)I bodkin until all are divided into separate strands(see Fig. 40), and these should then be scraped with aknife to thin them down slightly, as shown in Each lay cord is then pasted between thumband finger. This will bring all the threads togetheragain, and also point them, and they will then befound to be much softer and more pliable than 42 shows how this is done. Pass the-lay cordscarefully through the first set of holes made in theboards, threading from the outside, as in Fig. the hand inside and pull all the cords tight, and


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