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Title: Bookbinding self taught
Author: Ben Davidson
Editor: E. Haldeman-Julius
Release date: January 23, 2026 [eBook #77757]
Language: English
Original publication: Girard: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1927
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=LITTLE BLUE BOOK NO.= 1192
=Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius=
Bookbinding
Self Taught
=Ben Davidson=
HALDEMAN-JULIUS PUBLICATIONS
GIRARD, KANSAS
Copyright, 1927,
Haldeman-Julius Company
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
CONTENTS
Page
1. Little Blue Book Covers 5
2. Tools and Materials 12
3. Stitching 15
4. Binding 19
5. Rebinding Old Books 28
6. Loose Leaf Scrap Books 29
7. Lettering 30
BOOKBINDING SELF TAUGHT
1. LITTLE BLUE BOOK COVERS
The satisfaction derived from rebinding torn covered books from my
library has actuated me in preparing this Little Blue Book. I am the
possessor of several hundred copies of the Little Blue Books, for
which I have made a number of linen holders. To begin, therefore,
with just such a simple proposition as the making of a linen cover or
holder for one of the Blue Books would be a good start.
All you need is a piece of linen cloth, some thin card-board, white
paste, scissors and a small brush which can be purchased at the five
and ten-cent store. Also a ruler.
The Blue Book being 5 inches high and 3½ inches wide, cut two pieces
of cardboard to measure 5¼ inches high and 3⅝ inches wide, thus
making the card-board protrude ⅛ of an inch at the top and bottom and
⅛ of an inch on the side.
Now, measure the back of the Blue Book. As there is no uniform size,
and since the backs of the Blue Books vary from ⅛ to ⅜ of an inch,
allow ¼-inch for the back. If you were making a permanent cover for
the Blue Book, you would have to measure its back exactly, but for a
removable linen holder ¼-inch will suffice.
You are now ready to measure and cut the cloth. Be sure to measure
your cloth at a right angle and leave ½-inch extra at the top and
bottom and right side. In cutting the length and width of your linen,
you will be guided by the following figures: Length, ½ plus 5¼ plus
½ or 6¼ inches from top to bottom; width, 2½ plus 3⅝ plus ¼ plus 3⅝
plus ½ or 10½ inches from left to right (the 2½ inches at the left
is for the holder or pocket). Having cut your cloth 10½ inches by 6¼
inches, lay it down flat upon the table, and draw parallel lines ½
inch from the top and ½ inch from the bottom. Then draw perpendicular
lines from the right as follows: ½-inch, 3⅝ inches, ¼-inch, and 3⅝
inches again. By drawing these parallel and perpendicular lines
correctly, you will know just where to place the two (5¼ × 3⅝)
cardboards. The diagram on your cloth will look something like
Figure 1.
You are now ready to paste the card-boards in the spaces outlined in
Figure 1. Place the cardboard on a piece of waste or newspaper; then
dip your brush in a little water before applying the paste so as to
get an even moisture; and give the cardboard a smooth coating of
paste. In doing this paste work properly, it is good to have a supply
of waste or newspaper at hand; also, a rough towel and a wastebasket.
Having applied a smooth coating of paste to the cardboard, place
it within the lines of the right frame (see Figure 1) and rub the
surface of the cardboard with a clean piece of cloth; until you feel
sure that it has been properly pasted. Do the same with the remaining
cardboard and place it in the adjoining frame (see Figure 1).
[Illustration: Figure 1]
Fold and crease the 2½ inches of cloth at your left, so that it will
lay flat upon the left cardboard. At the top and bottom ends of this
crease, and within the ½-inch of the overlapping margins of each end,
cut out a piece of cloth in the shape of a V (see Figure 2). Also,
at the top and bottom end of the 2½ inches of cloth, and within the
½-inch margins of both these ends, cut out two more pieces of cloth
in the shape of V (see Figure 2).
[Illustration: Figure 2]
As the cloth pocket-folder at your left is lying flat upon the left
cardboard, fold both ends of the ½-inch margins of the pocket-folder
inside, so that the margins will rest between the left cardboard
and the pocket cloth. Take a piece of white paper 5⅛ × 2¼ and insert
¾-inch of the left side in the pocket-folder, so that ¾-inch at the
top and bottom of the left sheet will rest right into the folded
crease on the inside of the pocket-folder. Paste the back of the
right side of the sheet on the left cardboard and the ¼-inch back of
the book; there will still be left ¼-inch which can be pasted on the
adjoining right cardboard. Now, paste the ½-inch margins at the top
and bottom of the pocket holder, and fold them over so that they will
rest outside the pocket (see Figure 3). Paste the remaining ½-inch
margins at the top, bottom and right (one at a time) and turn them
in; first, the top margin, then the margin at the bottom, the margin
at the right being last. It will be necessary to cut out a small bit
of cloth at the top and bottom of the right margin corners. As two
margins meet each other at the corner of a book--each margin being
¼-inch wide--you find a corner margin ½-inch square that is not
needed, and can be cut out; but, by a little practice, the corner
can be so manipulated, as to make two right-angled triangles and by
cutting the triangle facing toward you, make a more finished corner.
The margins being properly pasted inside the covers, take a sheet of
paper (white) 5 × 3½ and paste over the right cardboard and part of
the pasted margins, leaving ⅛-inch from the top, bottom and right
side. This finishes your linen book holder and you can now insert the
left cover of your Blue Book into the pocket of the linen holder.
[Illustration: Figure 3]
2. TOOLS AND MATERIALS
FOR BOOKBINDING
Sewing Bench
Flat Press
Steel-faced Backing Boards
Hammer
Scissors
Folder (bone)
Hack Saw
Glue Pot
Brushes, Paste
Ruler
Cutter
Cloth
The Sewing Bench is a wooden frame, consisting of four attached
pieces of wood--1 flat piece 18 inches long by 8 inches wide; two
upright pieces of wood, each piece being 1 foot long and an inch
square. These two pieces of wood are attached at the left and right
front ends of the flat piece perpendicularly, so that the two pieces
are parallel to each other. Another piece of wood 18 inches long and
1 inch square connects the two uprights, and you have a sewing bench
(see Figure 4).
[Illustration: Figure 4--Sewing Bench with 3 cords attached.]
A small wooden press, which is used to give the book or its number
of parts a good squeeze before the binding, can be made of two flat
pieces of strong wood and made to come as close together with the aid
of a metal vise. (The press can also be purchased for about $3.75.)
The steel-faced backing boards are used after the book is finished;
the book being placed between the two boards with the protruding
pieces of brass resting in the creases of the book. This can also be
done with the aid of a metal vise. The steel-faced backing boards are
made up of two pieces of strong wood 18 inches long and 12 inches
wide and about 1 inch thick. At one of the long ends of each of these
boards a piece of steel or brass is so attached as to protrude about ⅛
of an inch. These boards can also be purchased at a nominal cost at
any business house dealing in Bookbinders’ Supplies.
The other tools, such as paste, hammer, brush, scissors, etc., can be
purchased at any hardware or five and ten-cent store.
3. STITCHING
For the beginner who wishes to learn book binding in all its parts,
it is advisable to take apart some old inexpensive book or magazine.
In doing so, he will observe how the numerous pages are joined
together by parts or “signatures” and then stitched. In taking an old
book apart, one can’t help noticing how the covers were attached and
how the back of the book was glued.
The average book, containing several hundred pages, is divided into a
certain number of parts or sections. A section is made up of 8 pages
or 16 sides. A book of 320 sides consists of 160 pages or 20 sections.
In preparing to stitch the sections of a book together, be sure to
have each section in its proper place, before placing it on the
sewing bench. Mark the first page of each section 1, 2, 3, etc. In
order to insure a uniform width of all the sections, place them into
the wooden press, so that the back of each section will be properly
squeezed. Now, have all the backs protrude ¼-inch out of the press;
and with a plain hack saw, make the holes as follows: ½-inch across
from each end of the section, across the center, and two times
across, between the center and each end-hole. (The last two being
half way between the center and end-holes.) These holes are made for
the cotton or stitching cord to pass through. Be careful in cutting,
so as not to make the holes too deep. Cut as deep as the teeth of the
saw.
Three cords are attached to the bar of the sewing bench. These cords
are fastened to the base. As a section of the book is placed upon
the sewing bench, the center hole and the ones to the left and the
right of the center, are placed in front of these cords, so that the
three cords will cover the three holes. Thread your needle, and begin
stitching from the outside of the end-hole at your right; and, as the
cotton is drawn inside and outside of the section, it will entwine
the three cords. As you finish stitching one section, run your needle
around the stitch underneath it and make a knot. These knots hold all
the sections together.
After all the sections are properly stitched, cut the three cords,
leaving an inch or so from each end. These extra pieces of cord are
threaded and later used as part of the attachment of the book to the
covers (see Figure 5).
When all the sections are stitched and properly knotted, the book is
ready to be bound. End-sheets are then cut to measure the length and
width of the book to be bound.
[Illustration: Figure 5--Showing the inside stitch of a section]
4. BINDING
Suppose the book to be bound is 8 inches long, 5 inches wide and
1 inch thick. The end-sheet can be cut 8 × 10 and folded in half.
Usually, two such sheets are cut, and pasted over each other. The top
sheet being re-enforced by a strip of white linen 8 × 1½, leaving ¾
of an inch on each side of the crease. The end-sheets are then pasted
with a half inch margin of paste, and placed over the first and last
sheet of the book.
The back of the book is now ready to be glued; it is placed between
two cardboards, and then placed between two contracting boards,
leaving the back of the book protruding enough to be glued freely.
The glue, being properly prepared, is applied to the back of the book
with a stiff brush. The headbands or trimmings are then cut 1⅛ inches
and placed on each end of the back. These headbands are more of an
ornament, and most books today are bound without them.
The book being 8 inches long and one inch thick, cut a piece of
cheese cloth 8 inches long and 4 inches wide, and place over the
glued back so that 1½ inches of the cloth will lap over each side of
the book. A strip of heavy paper 8 × 1 inches is cut and placed over
the glued cheese cloth back. Leave the book in this position for a
while to dry.
The next step is the cutting of cloth and cardboards for the cover.
The book being 8 inches long and 5 inches wide, the cardboards should
be cut 8¼ inches long and 4⅝ inches wide. (In making a flat back the
width of the cardboards would be 5⅛.) By cutting the cardboards 8¼
inches long, you allow ⅛ inch to protrude at the top and the bottom;
and by cutting the cardboards 4⅝ inches wide, you allow a space of ¼
inch adjacent to each side of the back of the book for the crease,
and ⅛ of an inch margin wider than the book.
To give the book--8 inches long, 5 inches wide and 1 inch thick--a
whole cloth binding it is necessary to measure the cloth as follows:
length, ½ plus 8 and ¼ plus ½ (the half inches for margins at each
end, and the 8¼ inches for the cardboards) making the length of your
cloth 9¼ inches. In measuring the width of the book, allow space for
the back, covers, creases and margins. The width, therefore, would be
measured as follows: ½ plus 4⅝ plus ¼ plus 1 plus ¼ plus 4⅝ plus ½,
making the total width 12¼ inches (see Figure 6). We now have the
following measurements for the whole cloth covering of the book: Full
length of cloth 9¼ inches. Full width of cloth 12¼ inches.
[Illustration: Figure 6
aa--Card-boards 8¼ × 4⅝
bb--Space for creases ¼ inch wide
c--Space for 1-inch back
dd--½-inch margins at the top and bottom
ee--½-inch margins at the left and right]
A piece of heavy paper 8¼ × 1 inch should be pasted over the 1-inch
back to reinforce it. Paste the top margin and turn in; then the
bottom margin. Now you have four corners to adjust before turning in
the side margins. At each corner, you have a piece of cloth a half
inch square, facing you, a part of which is unnecessary. With the aid
of your thumb, manipulate the half inch square of cloth in such a way
as to make two right-angle triangles; and cut the triangle facing
you. Repeat the same process with the three remaining corners; and
then turn in your left and right half inch margins. This completes
your cover.
If you wish to put any letters, designs or title on your cover, now
would be the proper time--for beginners. The subject of lettering
will be taken up in another chapter.
To cover the same book with two different materials, such as cloth
and paper or leather and cloth, it is customary to have the back
and the corners of the book bound in the same material. Given the
dimensions of any book, the rule is the same, in so far as allowing
so much for the margin, ¼ inch for the crease on each side adjoining
the back of the book.
In binding a book 9¼ inches long, 6¼ inches wide and 1½ inches thick
with a buckram back and corners and linen or paper sides, measure
and cut the buckram as follows: 1½ back, ¼ plus ¼ for the creases on
each side, and 1½ plus 1½ inches buckram extra on each side of the
cover. The total width being 5 inches. The length would be 9¼ and ½
plus ½ or 10¼ inches. The four buckram corners should be cut in four
right angle triangles.
If each corner of the cover is to have a 2½-inch right angle triangle
in buckram, cut two pieces of buckram 3½ inches square; which allows
for a ½-inch margin--all around--to turn in. Cut both the squares
along the opposite points or the hypotenuse and you have your four
right-angle triangles (see Figure 7).
[Illustration: Figure 7--Pattern for the four corners. Dotted lines
represent the margins.]
The paper or cloth used to cover the rest of the book should be
measured and cut as follows: length 9¼ inches and ½ plus ½ or 10¼
inches. The width will be 5¼ inches. About 2¾ inches will have to be
cut away from the side covers to make place for the buckram corners.
To do this work properly, bind your book first with the buckram back
and corners; and then apply the side coverings (see Figure 8).
[Illustration:
Figure 8--Outside cover of a book bound in two
materials. Buckram for back and corners; cloth or
paper for the sides.]
Having attached the cardboards to the buckram back and corners, take
the cloth or paper to be used for the side covering, and place one
end (lengthwise) parallel with the buckram; allowing the cloth to lay
on a ¼-inch margin of the buckram. Take a “bone” or letter opener and
run the end along the cloth, so that the slant of the buckram corners
will leave its impression upon the cloth or paper that you are using.
Do the same with the other side. You now have four slant impressions
on your cloth; and by cutting your piece of cloth ¼ inch away from
the slants, but parallel to it, you will have an exact covering.
5. REBINDING OLD BOOKS
Some books only need new covers--the binding being strong. In
removing the old covers, care should be taken not to cut any of the
knots or stitches; otherwise the book will come apart. Also, in
removing the back which usually contains the title, you may wish to
repaste the title to the new covering. If the pages of the book are
loose and merit restitching, remove the dry glue from the back of
the book. The use of a pen knife, sand paper and a wet sponge will
be necessary to remove the glue properly. The glue being properly
removed from the back of the book, the sections will come apart
readily. Remove the old stitchings from each section; and also
examine the back of each part. If it is torn or worn out, re-enforce
it with a thin slip of strong tissue paper one inch wide; so that ½
inch will rest on each side of the crease. The length of the tissue
paper will depend, of course, upon the length of the page being
repaired. Having taken the sections apart, you now proceed in the
same manner as described in the chapter on Stitching.
6. LOOSE LEAF SCRAP BOOKS
The covers for a loose leaf scrap book can be made without a back.
Measure and cut the cardboard ⅛ of an inch larger on all sides than
the pages. Also, leave a ½-inch cloth margin on all sides. After the
covers are finished, cut holes in their proper places--usually two
at the back of each cover. Holes are cut in the pages to correspond
with the holes in the cover. Two rings are run through the covers and
pages; and your scrap or note-book is finished (see Figure 9). A hole
puncher and rings can be had at a hardware store or at the “five and
ten.”
[Illustration: Figure 9]
7. LETTERING
Bookbinders’ ink can be purchased in small tin tubes. They come
in all colors; but the dark colors are best for the beginner. The
light colors--especially white--do not leave a clear impression
upon the cloth. To do this work properly, it is necessary to have a
tool-press, a small supply of printer’s type, and a small roller. The
tool-press is a metal device to hold the type fast; and is made of
a brass oblong frame with two screws. The frame is movable, and the
screws are used to widen or narrow it according to the title of the
book.
Suppose the title to be printed upon the back of the book is
PILGRIM’S PROGRESS; and the back of the book is one inch wide. You
will have to print PILGRIM’S PROGRESS on two lines--each line being
less than an inch. The type used would be about the same size as the
capital letters of a typewriting machine.
Place the letters “PILGRIM’S” in the tool-press. Hold the tool-press
with its back facing you, and set the type from left to right. Open
your tube of printers’ ink and squeeze a small bit on a piece of
glass. Place the small roller over the ink; and keep on rolling
back and forth until you have a smooth thin layer of ink on your
roller. Apply the roller to the title once or twice, and, holding the
handle of the tool-press tightly, press the letters upon the back of
the book. Increase the pressure for a few seconds, and remove the
tool-press. In order to ensure the title being placed properly, draw
a light horizontal line on the back of the book, and place the type
right under it.
Having printed the word “PILGRIM’S” on the back of your book, remove
the type from your tool-press, and set up PROGRESS in the same
way--repeating the same process. The word PROGRESS should be printed
about ¾ of an inch below PILGRIM’S.
Before impressing the title upon the book, the beginner is advised to
try it first on a piece of waste cloth or heavy paper. Only after you
have made a clear and good impression upon the scrap of cloth, should
you do the book.
After this is done, leave the printed title to dry and then attach
the cover to the book in the manner described under “Binding.” Also,
remove the surplus ink from the type, roller and glass. Use a little
kerosene oil on a tooth brush for the cleaning of the type; and some
cotton waste for the roller and glass. Apply a little kerosene to
the cotton waste, and apply it to the roller, until all the ink is
removed. Do the same for the glass.
To use dark colors such as black, blue or brown, it is necessary to
employ a light cloth; or print the title on a white cloth and paste
the white over the dark cloth. White ink on a dark cloth tends to
blur; and Bookbinders use instead a chemical called praeger leaf.
It looks like a sheet of paper with a coating of white chalk on one
side. Apply several drops from the white of an egg (size) on the
cloth. Place a small strip of praeger leaf over it. Heat the type
to be used for several minutes (place in oven) and then apply it on
the praeger leaf. The heat of the type melts the impression upon
the cloth, and the “size” (white of an egg) makes it stick. Gold
lettering with the use of gold leaf is done the same way.
Here too it is advisable to experiment on pieces of scrap cloth
several times, and remember, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try
again.”
Transcriber’s Note:
Words in bold are surrounded by equal signs, =like this=. One
misspelled word was corrected, one extraneous hyphen was removed, and
one unprinted letter was added.
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