17th-Century Flexible Binding: Quality Check (Apprentice Session 1)
In this series, @smithingchick.bsky.social will be binding copies of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels & Persuasion by Jane Austen.
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"Grain, grit, and bookbinding glory. 🖤
Welcome to BOOKFORGE in raw black & white—because sometimes color just can’t handle the chaos. 📖⚡️
This is Part 1 of our four-frame mischief reel. Stick around, it only gets weirder…”
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“Thor runs the bindery now. 🐾 From ink-splattered tables to stacks of stitched spines, he’s the orange-furred overlord of BOOKFORGE.
25 seconds. One cat. Zero beige.
“Follow for more ideas that shout — and cats that supervise.”
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Apprentice Sharon + pigment + sunshine = paste paper magic for some very 17th-century spines.
The bindery smells like wheat paste and summer now.
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What's on your workbench today!?
Me? A restoration effort on an 1870 edition of VENICE and four half-bound leather music composition journals crafted with a split-board structure my apprentice @smithingchick is working.
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"A book should be opened with respect, closed with reverence, and kept clean."
- Attributed to various historical bookbinders, reflecting the reverence for books and their content.
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1870 Venice glued out, rounded and shouldered, in the job backer!
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This large 1870s folio book, Venice, took way longer to sew than I care to admit.
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Thoughts on this article?
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New sewing endbands video on the BOOKFORGE Patreon page for you to watch. Check it out now!
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BOOKFORGE [LiVE!] today at 2 PM EDT. Today, we will be sewing single-core, two-color endbands on flexible bindings.
If you miss the stream, don't worry. It will be available anytime for your convenience.
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Sometimes, not all paste down material comes off. It's sanding time for these boards. You don't want any relief under the pastedowns, nor do you want the old material coming loose later under the new pastedown.
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Before and after images of rodent chewed book board restoration from the 19th-century.
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Old leather removal from a 19th-century book board.
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...and the removal continues!
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The removal of the old bookcloth.
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Getting ready to remove the old leather and cloth from this Erie County History Illustrated for restoration.
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Ready for surgery...
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Finish up the Oxford hollow on this History of Erie County!
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BOOKFORGE will be live tomorrow at 2 PM EDT! I'll be sewing two-color endbands on several books.
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A little photo session fun with Freyja (cat) and Sharon, The Bookbinder's Apprentice!
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Last of this session...time to edit 300 images!
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This just might be my favorite book I've posted today! Check it out!
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Here it is. Our largest journal! Hand-bound in white goatskin leather with Japanese Yuzen paper. The Seven Treasures journal is college ruled with 288 pages for your writing pleasure!
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Another drawer. New design paper for the flat file at BOOKFORGE!
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New paper for the bindery flat file!
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Thunder storms rollin' in...
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Just one more addition to the BOOKFORGE Etsy shop before bed time. If you have a moment, check it out.
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How close is TOO close!?
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