A Comprehensive Classic Guide for Bookbinding Projects and Technique This deluxe reprint Legacy Edition of Paul N.
Hasluck's Bookbinding The Traditional Way (previously published as Bookbinding in 1902) is full of old-time tips and methods for learning the book-binder's and printing press arts and for making your own beautifully bound DIY hardcover books in the traditional way.
Originally published in 1902, this handy little guide touches on every aspect of bookbinding, including tools, technique, and plans for projects.
Hasluck describes many essential aspects of bookbinding, including the required tools, cloth-covering for covers, tooling and pressing covers, folding pages, sewing and combining page signatures, cutting and setting book edges, book decorations and traditional page marbling methods, page gilding, and lettering and decorating book covers and spines.
This book makes a perfect gift for aspiring or expert book binders, DIYers, traditional crafters, homesteaders, and handcrafters of all kinds A part of the Hasluck's Traditional Skills Library: Volume 4This Doublebit Legacy Edition reprint of Bookbinding The Traditional Way is professionally restored and presented from the original source with the highest degree of fidelity possible.
Readers can enjoy this Legacy Edition for generations to come and learn from its timeless knowledge for years to come.
About the Doublebit Press Legacy Edition Reprint Collection Sometimes we need to remember our history to move forward.
Sometimes, remembering our heritage is just fun or inspirational.
But sometimes, remembering the old ways of doing things gives a human component to handcrafts and traditional arts.
With technology playing a major role in everyday life, sometimes we need to take a step back in time to find those basic building blocks used for gaining mastery - the things that we have luckily not completely lost and has been recorded in books over the last two centuries.
These skills aren't forgotten, they've j.
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Doublebit Press Bookbinding the traditional way (legacy edition): a classic manual of methods and equipment for book making, bindery, and cover finishing, hardcover/paul n. hasluck
