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 . up, sawing in, etc., must beexplained. Fig. 21 shows the shape of sewing-pressusually adopted. To the reader who does not possesssuch a press we may mention that many books havebeen sewn upon a temporary press made up of fourpieces of wood fixed together, viz., two uprights andtwo crossbars attached to them. Still, for satisfactorywork to be accomplished, it is better for the beginnerto set up a sewing pres
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 . up, sawing in, etc., must beexplained. Fig. 21 shows the shape of sewing-pressusually adopted. To the reader who does not possesssuch a press we may mention that many books havebeen sewn upon a temporary press made up of fourpieces of wood fixed together, viz., two uprights andtwo crossbars attached to them. Still, for satisfactorywork to be accomplished, it is better for the beginnerto set up a sewing press as soon as possible. Theloops of cord seen hanging from the crossbar are in-tended for the attachment of the lay cords, , thecords on which the book is sewn. For these laycords, good hempen string, tapes, or vellum may beused. 36 PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. Marking Up.—This implies the dividing andmarking on the back of the sections the positionsfor the lay cords. These vary somewhat in detail,according to the style of binding adopted, as wellas the method of sewing which has been decidedupon. Let us take each of the three previouslymentioned methods of sewing in the order Fig. 21. (i) Ordinary sewing—although it cannot be recom-mended—is generally used for cloth-bound andhollow-back books, as also plain tight backs withoutbands. Marking up for these does not require tobe very accurate. Therefore, having decided upon thenumber of lay cords on which the book is to be sewn,according to the size of the book, proceed to knockup all sections together both at head and back. Then PRACTICAL BOOKRINDINCx. 37 screw up the whole in the lying press (the lyingpress is similar to the cutting press, only the topis turned upside down, see Fig. 50), and measure andmark pencil lines on the back of the sections abouth in. from both head and tail. These marks are Fig. 22.
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