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 . icking up the gold with the wooland placing it upon the book is illustrated in and 89. As the wool is placed in position a firmeven pressure is given, and the gold leaf will be foundto leave the wool, and become attached to the bookby the aid of the trace of grease placed to receive is now ready for tooling over the gold. The toolsshould again be placed on the stove and heated, andif it is fo
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 . icking up the gold with the wooland placing it upon the book is illustrated in and 89. As the wool is placed in position a firmeven pressure is given, and the gold leaf will be foundto leave the wool, and become attached to the bookby the aid of the trace of grease placed to receive is now ready for tooling over the gold. The toolsshould again be placed on the stove and heated, andif it is found necessary to cool them the shank of the PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. 121 tool—not the face—must be placed on the coolingsponge. Each tool must be tested before using, sothat the exact heat may be known. The whole of theletters, lines, and other decoration, which have beencovered with gold leaf, are to be re-impressed withthe heated tools ; and it is a test of the finishers skillto place each tool exactly in the same impression overthe gold that was made when the work was blinded in,and then to press the same down with a steady andeven pressure. Much practice is required to do this. Fig. 89. accurately and well, and to prevent doubling,, causing a double impression of the letters or the tools are used too hot, the gold leaf left in theimpressions will be lacking in brilliancy; and on theother hand, if the tools are too cold, the gold leafwill probably show breaks in the lines or is no doubt due to the fact that the tool not beinghot enough, portions of the gold leaf have not properlyadhered to the leather ; hence it will be recognised how-necessary it is to use the tools at exactly the rightheat. Broken places in the gold impressions may besometimes mended by breathing upon the defective 122 PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. part, and immediately covering it with a new pieceof gold leaf. Then with a slightly hotter tool, theimpressions should be struck again. If
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