Week fourteen as apprentice bookbinder at York Bookbinding
This week at York Bookbinding I worked on the volumes football programs; endpapers, gluing, rounding & backing. Notes; walloping is not a recognised bookbinding term, but I like it for the process of squashing the spine for gluing, which is before the rounding process.
This weeks accomplishments:
- Cut to size and applied endpapers to all volumes.
- Glued the spines of all volumes.
- Walloped all volumes ready for rounding.
- Rounded the spines ready for backing.
- Learnt the way of backing a spine.
- Problem solving! Fixing mistakes.
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| Attaching endpapers. |
Before and after walloping.
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| Walloped and ready to be rounded. |
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| Rounding! |
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| Book block after backing. |
New skills acquired this week:
- Practice in rounding a spine.
- Backing a spine.
- Finding a new, more efficient way to rethread tape.
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| Straight beginnings... |
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| A little lopsided but almost there... |
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| That'll do it! Pretty even and round. |
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| The rounding process. |
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| The book block in the backing bench. |
What I need to improve on:
- As usual, I need to speed up.
- More practice of rounding.
- More practice backing.
- Be more careful with tapes!
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| The tape catastrophe! |
Notes of the week:
If a tape is pulled out, reinsert it back through the thread by making. a space with two needles. Then attach thread to the tape to be able to pull it through the gap.
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| Efficient tape re-insertion. |
