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 . 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 PR
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 . 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. Fig. 23. intended to show the positions of the kettle,or catch-up stitches. The thread which is usedfor sewing is here caught up and tied ; hence thename kettle or catch-up stitch. The interveningspace on the back, between the two pencil lines 3* PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. mentioned, is divided into equal parts with the springdividers (Fig. 5, N); these are shown in use in Fig. equal parts are required for three cords and sixfor five cords. As shown in Fig. 23, pencil lines arethen squared across the back at each of the , and small grooves, not too deep, should besawn across these lines with the tenon saw (Fig. 24).The method of holding and using the tenonsaw is shown in Fig. 24. (2) For flexible sewing on raised bands greater
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