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• All-over style  + (en:A style of finishing in which the entire cover, as distinct from the corners, center or borders, is decorated by a single motif, multiple motifs, or a decorative roll.)
• Bandstick  + (en:A tapering length of hard, smooth wood, used in pressing and smoothing the leather on the spine between the raised bands.)
• Machine binding  + (en:A term sometimes applied to the type of … en:A term sometimes applied to the type of bookbinding in which equipment is employed extensively, as contrasted with the type in which relatively little machinery is employed. Machine binding would include mainly edition and pamphlet bindings, and possibly library bindings.t bindings, and possibly library bindings.)
• Girdle book  + (fr:hmm)
• Folder  + (en:A thin length of wood, bone, ivory, or … en:A thin length of wood, bone, ivory, or other material, from 6 to 12 inches long, and 1 to 1 1/2 inches wide. The typical folder is approximately 1/8 inch thick. It is tapered to the edges, has rounded edges and ends, and is used in folding sheets by hand and cutting bolts, and also in numerous binding operations., and also in numerous binding operations.)
• Blocking foil  + (en:A thin plastic film with a high vacuum deposit of gold or other metal and backed by a pressure-sensitive adhesive. They are used in the same way as gold leaf, the impression being obtained by means of a heated die, block, type, etc.)
• Thumb index  + (en:A type of index which utilizes a series of rounded notches cut into the fore edge of the book. Each generally has a label bearing a letter or letters indicating the arrangement. The index proceeds from head to tail and front to back of the volume.)
• Gilding press  + (en:A type of press used to hold several books at once while their edges are gilded)
• Fine binding  + (en:A unique or limited edition binding intended to be considered as a work of art in itself.)
• Morocco  + (en:A vegetable tanned leather having a characteristic pinhead grain pattern developed either naturally or by means of graining or boarding, but never by embossing.)
• Textile bindings  + (en:A very ornate style of fabric binding, … en:A very ornate style of fabric binding, popular in England and France during the Renaissance, and in England into the 18th century. The books were sumptuously bound in satin and velvet of various colors, and were often embellished with needlework in multi-colored silks, as well as gold and silver threads.silks, as well as gold and silver threads.)
• Jogger  + (en:A vibrating device used to produce a smooth-sided pile of paper stock before trimming, folding, binding, etc., or to align and position any material for any purpose during a production run.)
• Fillet  + (en:A wheel-shaped finishing tool having on … en:A wheel-shaped finishing tool having one or more raised bands on its circumference. It is used to impress a line or parallel lines on the covering material of a book, usually one bound in leather. The lines may be continuous or the fillets may have a wedge-shaped gap in the circumference to facilitate starting and stopping lines and also to enable lines to be joined evenly at corners.able lines to be joined evenly at corners.)
• Spine features  + (en:All the features relating to the formation, function, decoration and titling of the spine of a book and the spine covering.)
• Covering techniques  + (en:All the processes involved in turning a piece of sheet material into a cover for a book.)
• Cambridge style  + (en:An English style of bookbinding practic … en:An English style of bookbinding practiced largely on theological works and in university libraries. Although used elsewhere, the style was so highly favored by binders in Cambridge in the early years of the 18th century that it became recognized as their speciality, which probably accounts for the name. Books bound in this style were sewn on raised cords, covered in calfskin that was masked and sprinkled in such a manner as to leave a stained central rectangular panel, a plain rectangular frame, which, in turn, was surrounded by a stained outside frame. The books had Dutch marble endpapers and red edges. The spine was pieced with red russia leather labels and had double blind lines at head and tail on each side of the raised bands. The covers were decorated with a two-line fillet close to the edges and on each side of the panel. and with a narrow flower roll worked on each side of the panel close to the lines. There were many variations of this style, including some books tooled in gold, and some with marbled covers and sprinkled panels. with marbled covers and sprinkled panels.)
• Bag binding  + (en:An additional protective covering provided a book. It is usually made of leather.)
• Fanfare style  + (en:An elaborate style of decoration consis … en:An elaborate style of decoration consisting generally of geometrically formed compartments of varying sizes, each bounded by a ribbon consisting of a single fillet on one side and a double fillet on the other, each of which, with the exception of the center compartment (which is larger or otherwise distinguished), being filled with leafy spirals, branches of laurel, and other spraysrals, branches of laurel, and other sprays)
• Steamboat boards  + (en:Any boards used for cutting books out of boards)
• Cathedral binding  + (en:Bindings decorated with Gothic architectural motifs)
• Edition binding  + (en:Bindings in identical covers, produced in quantity.)
• Adhesive structure bindings  + (en:Bindings in which the gatherings are he … en:Bindings in which the gatherings are held together by adhesive only, without any form of sewing or stitching. They may, however, be reinforced by glueing strips of material into recesses cut across the spine. The earliest examples of European adhesive bindings recorded on printed books are English, with one example dating from the 1620s and a small group from the period 1670-1690. German examples have been identified from the second half of the eighteenth-century and very occasionally in England at the end of the eighteenth century. The small number of survivals from these early periods is a reflection either of the ephemeral nature of some of the texts bound in this manner, or the inherent instability of such structures before the introduction of flexible adhesives. The so-called 'Perfect binding' patented in 1836 and probably first used in 1839 (Middleton, p.30), in which caoutchouc was used as the adhesive, proved no more durable.d as the adhesive, proved no more durable.)
• Boards (components)  + (en:Boards are rigid or semi-rigid components made from one or more pieces of sheet material used to protect and support a bookblock. There will usually be at least two boards, one on each side of the bookblock.)
• Bind from sheets  + (en:Bookbinding which originates from the flat or folded sheets, usually the former, as received from the printer.)
• Mosaic bindings  + (en:Bookbindings decorated by inlaying or onlaying small pieces of leather of various colors to form patterns.)

• Steamboating  + (en:Cutting books out of boards, a number being cut at the same time.)

• Paste paper  + (en:Decorative endpapers and cover papers produced by pressing or sliding objects into a wet paste or starch mixture that has been spread on the paper.)
• Red edges  + (en:Edges of a textblock that have been colored red.)
• Felt  + (en:A cloth produced from matted fibers of wool, or wool and fur or hair, and made into a compact material by compression, usually while wet)
• Plant materials  + (en:Fibrous organic materials and extracts derived from plants and trees.)
• Hand tools  + (en:Finishing tools fitted with wooden handles and impressed by hand as opposed to blocks, panels, etc. which have to be used in presses. Hand tools will therefore include small hand tools, hand letters, rolls, fillets and pallets.)
• Index  + (en:In bookbinding, the words, letters, num … en:In bookbinding, the words, letters, numbers, etc., printed, stamped or pasted in alphabetical, numerical, or other order: 1) in spaces cut or gouged in the fore edge of the book; 2) tabs attached to the leaves at the fore edge; or 3) printed on the leaves of the book, or on separate sheets to be inserted in their proper position in the book. The purpose of the index is to facilitate quick reference to the contents.acilitate quick reference to the contents.)
• Forwarding  + (en: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.)
• Gift binding  + (en:In the usual application, a leather binding produced for presentation, such as a retirement signature book.)
• Hand letters  + (en:Individual letters, numerals, etc., cut in brass and attached to wooden or asbestos handles, and used to letter a book by hand.)
• Cosway bindings  + (en:Leather bookbindings produced in the usual manner, except that they have miniature paintings inset into their covers.)
• Marbled leather  + (en:Leather that has been given a marbled appearance as a result of a decoration process utilizing dyes, stains, or acids.)
• Straight grained leather  + (en:Leather with artificial creases in one direction.)
• Book trimming machine  + (en:Machines, equipped with a guilotine-like blade or blades, used to trim the edges of books.)
• Trough-marbled paper  + (en:Paper decorated by trough-marbling, which involves a transfer of colours floating on the surface of a liquid in a trough to the paper.)
• Label  + (en:Pieces of sheet material, most often co … en: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  + (en: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  + (en:Plain calfskin or sheepskin bindings issued by publishers in England from the 15th to the 18th centuries. They were rarely lettered.)
• Decorated paper  + (en:Plain papers decorated by various means, which might include trough-marbling, stencilling, sprinkling, hand-colouring, block-printing, etc.)
• Wooden boards  + (en:Plank-like wooden boards ranging in thi … en: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  + (sv:Headband)
• In the square  + (en:Refers to when a technique is done after [[sewing]] the [[textblock]], but before [[rounding]].)
• Chemise  + (en: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  + (nb:pappremse plassert langs bokblokkens rygg festet til overtrekksmaterialet)
• French paring knife  + (en:The French paring knife is rounded along the edge)
• Gilding  + (en: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.)