A sheet of paper of any traditional size, folded three times to make a section of eight leaves.
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A sheet of paper of any traditional size, folded three times to make a section of eight leaves.
The groove remaining in the back edges of the folded sections after a book has been taken apart. This must be flattened or 'knocked out' with a hammer before rebinding.
A method of decorating a book bound in leather by pasting pieces of leather, often of different colours, directly onto the leather cover, and tooling the edges to bind them down.
Easing the stiffness out of a newly bound book.
Jewelry, book cover decoration. Forms most of the vegetable kingdom, removed, simplified, stylized.
The flexible part of the covering material (leather, cloth or paper) on which the board opens. See also joint.
Reinforcing a section, or joining a number of single sheets together, by sewing through the back margin. Often used to reinforce first and last sections.
See squares.
See turn-in.
