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16th Century Gothic Book Binding Techniques

This document describes two different bookbinding styles from the 16th century. The first is a Gothic binding with a quarter sawn oak board laced onto a textblock with herringbone sewing on flexible supports and an alum taw goatskin covering with blind tooling. The second is a girdle book with a blank textblock sewn onto flax cord supports and laced into mahogany boards with a deerskin covering and matching chemise.

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16th Century Gothic Book Binding Techniques

This document describes two different bookbinding styles from the 16th century. The first is a Gothic binding with a quarter sawn oak board laced onto a textblock with herringbone sewing on flexible supports and an alum taw goatskin covering with blind tooling. The second is a girdle book with a blank textblock sewn onto flax cord supports and laced into mahogany boards with a deerskin covering and matching chemise.

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16th Century Gothic Binding:

Completed textblock with quarter sawn oak boards laced on; herringbone sewing on double
flexible supports; primary endband sewn on alum taw cores; vellum spine lining; tying up after
covering; finished binding covered in alum taw goatskin, blind tooled in a simple panel design; two
piece hook and clasp style fastenings with alum taw & vellum straps affixed with brass escutcheon
pins; close-up of clasp attachment and tongue style corners.
Girdle Book
Blank textblock sewn on double flexible flax cord supports, laced into mahogany boards. Primary
endband with bead on the spine sewn on alum taw core. Brown deerskin covering with matching
brown deerskin chemise with braided leather knot.

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