Wire sewing

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English

"The method was simple. The sections of the book were wire stapled one after another on to a piece of coarse mull lining, or calico. For a cheap edition the product was good enough, but in course of time the staples rusted and became brittle. Anyone who has the job of rebinding one of these wired books, will agree that the less said about the machine the politer. This machine is said to have been first introduced about 1875, from America. ...by the end of the eighties binders were scrapping their wire machines as fast as they could manage to replace them. The wire sewing interlude had been short, and very noisy." <ref name="Leighton">Leighton, Douglas. Modern Bookbinding: A Survey and a Prospect : (the Fifth Dent Memorial Lecture). London: Dent, 1935. Print.</ref>

"A 19th century method of "sewing" the sections of a book through the folds and onto tapes, webbings, or muslin, by means of wire staples. This method of "sewing," which originated in Germany in about 1880, while strong, fell into disuse because of the development of edition (thread) sewing machines, and also because the staples rusted and disintegrated and the books came apart."<ref name="Etherington">Roberts, Matt T. and Don Etherington. "Wire sewing". Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books, A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology. Conservation Online, 1994. Web. 29 March 2016.</ref>

Synonyms

wire binding, wire stapling

Translations

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• Finnish: [[hakasnidonta|status=preferred|source=Nord}}
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• Norwegian: [[blokkstifting|status=preferred|source=Nord}}
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• Swedish: klammerhäftning<ref name="Nord" />, [[klamring|status=preferred|source=Nord}}

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