Binding & Stitching

Folding, piercing, sewing and gluing. The bench tools and the materials that turn a stack of printed sheets into a book that survives being read.

Tools 6 Stages Bind

A polished, tapered bone used to crease, burnish and rub down a fold or a pasted sheet.

A sharpened spike for piercing the sewing stations through a folded section.

A blunt-tipped needle and waxed linen thread: the joint that holds a book together.

PVA for strength, starch paste for reversibility, and the mix that does both.

An upright frame that holds the sewing cords under tension while the sections go on.

A screw press that holds a text block flat under pressure while the glue dries.

No tool in this category matches. Try clearing the search or the stage filter.

Note. Ranges are conventional trade figures. Check your own equipment against its documentation before relying on any number here.

Context

Binding in the workshop