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Bookbinding and book restoration:
For all your bookbinding and book restoration enquiries Email Paul at:
periodfinebindings@googlemail.com
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Bookbinding & Book Restoration - Bibles:
Full restoration of the Bible starts with carefully releasing the cover from the Bible, removing the linings from the spine of the Bible and then breaking down the sewing to the original sections in order to make necessary repairs, remove any stains or re-size brittle or damp sheets.
Once stripped the total damage of the Bible can be assessed for restoration before making the hand marbled endpapers It is also necessary to determine what kind of glue was used in the original binding of the Bible in order to successfully separate the sections.
With the leaves of the Bible all restored it is then marked out for sewing, in this case the
Bible was sewn on sunken cords, but they were cut off and not laced into
the boards as the style required a hollowback and 'pseudo split boards' where an extra leaf is wrapped around the spine of the Bible to form a tongue which is inserted into the split board.
Bookbinding & Book Restoration: Bibles
After the Bible has been re-sewn, rounded and backed, headbands made, sewn-in and the hollowback formed, it is now time to restore the original covers of the Bible, first removing the brass bosses and lifting
the original endpapers and edges very carefully.
The leather is then selected for the Bible hand dyed with Picric acid, Potassium
Tartrate and finally Ferrous Sulphate matching the original dyes used when the Bible was first bound.
With the leather cut and pared it is now time to re-back the spine of the Bible and turn in the edges
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Bookbinding and Book Restoration: Bibles
Now the Bible is set up for gilding, first blind tooled and 'glared' and afterwards tooled in 23 carat gold leaf. The first operation is 'rolling off' the spine of the Bible using patterned fillets and straight line pallets. Then each panel of the Bible is tooled using a series of small hand tools comprising of more than 100 individual impressions per panel.
A leather label is then applied to the spine of the Bible and the title hand lettered. The whole Bible is then hand polished before the brass bosses are straightened out and re-fitted.
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For more information contact Paul Tronson at:
periodfinebindings@googlemail.com
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