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 . e lay cords, and the first section of thebook is then placed on the top. The needle andthread passes in at the kettle stitch hole, which isimmediately above the one from which it came outlast on the end papers. This and all succeedingsections, and the other end papers, are sewn as justdescribed. When the needle and thread emerge fromthe kettle stitch hole at the other end of the section,the thread on the in
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 . e lay cords, and the first section of thebook is then placed on the top. The needle andthread passes in at the kettle stitch hole, which isimmediately above the one from which it came outlast on the end papers. This and all succeedingsections, and the other end papers, are sewn as justdescribed. When the needle and thread emerge fromthe kettle stitch hole at the other end of the section,the thread on the inside is again pulled tight with the 44 PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. thumb and fingers between each lay cord, and isthen tied off to the 4-in. or 5-in. piece first left pro-jecting, and when tied the short end may be cut next section having been sewn up to the kettlestitch hole, it is now for the first time that the truekettle stitch is formed, and, of course, a similar stitchmust be made at the end of every section throughoutthe book. The method of making this stitch may beexplained as follows :—The needle is passed in hori-zontally under the previous section sewn, , between. Fig. 31. that section and the one last sewn (see Fig. 30).Needle and thread are pulled through sufficiently toform the thread into a loop ; they then are passedthrough this loop as in Fig. 31, and when the thread ispulled tight it completes the kettle stitch. This isreally a knot tied once. After the last kettle stitchis made the thread is tied off twice, or it may be—forextra safety—tied off again one or two sections lowerdown. The lay cord in ordinary sewing is quite em-bedded into the back of the sections in the grooveswhich were cut in with the tenon saw (see again PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. 45 Fig. 29, A). In flexible sewing the whole oi the laycord projects from the back. (2) Flexible Sewing.—For flexible sewing thethread passes right round the lay cord, instead ofmerely across the back of
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