Tricks of the Trade: Confessions of a Bookbinder

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2015
Author
Author: Jamie Kamph
Language
English
Number of Pages
144 pp.
Publisher
Oak Knoll Press
City
New Castle, DE
Region
United States
Chronological Period
1950-1999
21st century
ISBN
9781584563341
Annotation

Contents: 

  • Confessions
  • A bookbinder's perspective, or how I got here
  • Assimilating old ideas
  • Fine weather for bookbinding
  • Medicine cabinet/Tool chest
  • Coming unglued
  • Paper unglued
  • Paper first
  • Attachments, directions, and warp
  • Zigzag endpapers
  • Smoother shoulders
  • Backbone
  • Paring essentials
  • Headband tips
  • Headcaps and patches
  • Speaking of corners
  • Joint repair, a simple solution
  • Cloth casings: The wrong method in the right place
  • Better rebacking
  • A word about paper bindings
  • Patterns
  • Breaking the gilding rules
  • Gold tooling chart
  • How to cheat at gold tooling
  • For the love of Samuel Johnson
  • Out of order
  • The formidable family Bible
  • Running out of ideas
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