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• Book trimming machine  + (Machines, equipped with a guilotine-like blade or blades, used to trim the edges of books.)
• Cutting and trimming techniques  + (Making incisions with a sharp-edged instrument, thus removing material or dividing something into parts.)
• Materials  + (Materials)
• Materials by function  + (Materials grouped by their function or purpose)
• Trough-marbled paper  + (Paper decorated by trough-marbling, which involves a transfer of colours floating on the surface of a liquid in a trough to the paper.)
• Paper by manufacture  + (Papers described by their type of manufacture)
• Label  + (Pieces of sheet material, most often colou … Pieces of sheet material, most often coloured tanned skin, paper or parchment, adhered or otherwise attached to the outside of a binding, bearing information about the contents of the book (typically the author's name and the title), a press or shelfmark, a price, etc. The information may be given in manuscript, tooled or printed.be given in manuscript, tooled or printed.)
• Band nippers  + (Pincers which have broad, flat jaws, used for straightening the bands of a book sewn on raised cords, and also for nipping up the leather during covering.)
• Trade binding  + (Plain calfskin or sheepskin bindings issued by publishers in England from the 15th to the 18th centuries. They were rarely lettered.)
• Decorated paper  + (Plain papers decorated by various means, which might include trough-marbling, stencilling, sprinkling, hand-colouring, block-printing, etc.)
• Wooden boards  + (Plank-like wooden boards ranging in thickn … Plank-like wooden boards ranging in thickness from approximately 4 to 20 mm (and occasionally thicker), as opposed to scaleboards which will be found in the range 1 to 3 mm. Thick wooden boards will often be shaped around the edges or across the outer surface and will usually have holes or tunnels drilled in them for the slips of sewing supports and/or endband cores.s of sewing supports and/or endband cores.)
• Endband  + (Refers to just the endband at the head of the book.)
• Endband  + (Refers to just the endband at the tail of the book.)
• Gold stamping  + (Refers to noun that is the result of gold stamping, not the action of stamping.)
• In the square  + (Refers to when a technique is done after [[sewing]] the [[textblock]], but before [[rounding]].)
• Chemise  + (Secondary covers fitted over a primary cover and often held in place without adhesive by sewn pockets which fit over the fore-edges of the boards.)
• Spine inlay  + (Strips of thick and relatively stiff paper … Strips of thick and relatively stiff paper or thin card, used to stiffen the spine areas of adhesive boards-and-cover case-bindings. They are cut to the height of the boards and leave gaps of 2-3 mm between the sides of the inlays and the spine edges of the boards. The boards and spine inlays are held together by the covering material to make a case.r by the covering material to make a case.)
• Industrial bookbinding  + (Styles, processes, tools, equipment, and terms related to the era of mechanized book production that started during the industrial revolution and continues to the present day.)
• Forwarding techniques  + (Techniques that are a part of [[forwarding]].)
• Sewing techniques  + (Techniques used during the sewing of a textblock, as part of the bookbinding process.)
• French paring knife  + (The French paring knife is rounded along the edge)
• Gilding  + (The art or process of adhering thin metal leaf to a surface, e.g., the leather cover or edges of a book, so as to approximate the effect of solid or inlaid metal.)
• Text block  + (The body of a book, consisting of the [[leaves]], or [[sections]], making up the unit to be [[bound]], [[rebound]], or [[restored]].)
• Publisher's binding  + (The business of binding identical books in quantity, usually for a publisher or distributor, as opposed to binding done for an individual and library binding)
• Loose-leaf binding  + (The business of binding individual sheets of paper in an exchangeable form, for leaves to be added, removed, or relocated in the book. Loose-leaf bindings are used wherever records of repeatedly changing information must be kept.)

• Cover components  + (The components used in the covering of books.)

• Trimming  + (The cutting of the edges of a bookblock to produce more or less smooth edges for convenience in handling, protection and decoration.)
• Grain direction  + (The direction in which the greater number … The direction in which the greater number of the fibers of a sheet of paper tend to be oriented as a result of the forward motion of the wire of the papermaking machine. The paper so produced is stronger in the machine direction, and also experiences less dimensional variation in the machine direction due to changes in humidity.hine direction due to changes in humidity.)
• Rough gilt  + (The edges of a book that have been cut solid and gilded before sewing, so that when the book is later sewn the edges are slightly uneven (rough), although usually to an almost imperceptible extent.)
• Gilt edge  + (The edges of a book which have been trimmed, sized, primed with Armenian bole, covered with gold leaf, and burnished.)
• Uncut  + (The edges of a newly printed book which have not been cut or trimmed, thus leaving the bolts, '''which must be cut before the book can be read'''. Until this is done the book is said to be unopened.)
• Tail  + (The lower or bottom edge of a book, usually implying the very edge of the covers and spine.)
• Acanthus  + (The name given a leaf of the acanthus plant (Acanthus spinosus) introduced as ornamentation in ancient Greek architecture.)
• Trimming  + (The operation in which bound books and other printed materials are reduced to their final size before casing or attachment of the hoards.)
• Objects  + (The patterns or characteristics evident in different parts of the construction and components of a book.)
• Components  + (The patterns or characteristics evident in different parts of the construction and components of a book.)
• Tying up  + (The process by which a covering skin on the spine of a book is held tightly to the bookblock, especially on each side of the raised bands and at the caps, by a length of cord wrapped tightly across the spine.)
• Knocking out the groove  + (The process employed when rebinding a book that was backed in the original binding, in which the bend in each section caused by the backing is removed.)
• Nipping  + (The process of applying heavy pressure of short duration to a case-bound book for the purpose of setting the joints before the adhesive used in casing-in sets.)
• Wringing down  + (The process of bringing the platen of a press closer to the bed plate, i.e. screwing a press shut.)
• Case in  + (The process of creating a case binding by securing the text block and attached endpapers into a case that was produced as a separate operation, lettered and (especially in edition binding) sometimes decorated.)
• Knocking up  + (The process of evening up one or two edges of a pile of sheets so that they can be cut squarely, or for some other purpose requiring squared-up sheets.)
• Beating  + (The process of flattening and consolidating the leaves or gatherings of a printed book before sewing by beating them with a heavy hammer.)
• Stitching (techniques)  + (The process of holding bookblocks together by stabbing a material such as thread, textile tape, parchment or tanned or tawed skin thongs through the inner margin of an entire bookblock)
• Rounding  + (The process of molding the spine of a text block into an arc of approximately one-third of a circle, which in the process produces the characteristic concave fore edge of the book.)
• Pulling  + (The process of reducing a bound book to individual sections or loose leaves.)
• Whip stitching  + (The process of sewing single sheets into "sections," the number of sheets so sewn depending on the thickness of the paper. The "sections" are then sewn on tapes or cords in the usual manner of hand sewing.)
• Backing  + (The process of shaping a ridge or [[shoulder]] … The process of shaping a ridge or [[shoulder]] on each side of the spine of a text block prior to the application of the [[spine lining]] material. The backs of the sewn sections or leaves are bent over from the center to the left and right until shoulders are formed against which the boards will fit. formed against which the boards will fit.)
• Paring  + (The process of thinning leather by cutting away the flesh side, or shaving the edges, i.e., beveling the edges that are to be turned in.)
• Blocking  + (The process or technique of impressing a design into the covering material of a book by means of a stamp or block having an engraved or etched surface.)
• Forwarding  + (The processes or steps involved in binding a book up to the point at which it is ready to be decorated. This will normally be thought to include sewing and covering, though some definitions of forwarding exclude either one or the other or both.)