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What an early-1900s bookbinding handbook says about designing gold-tooled book cover decoration
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What this guide covers
For book designers and binders curious about repeat-pattern decoration pressed in gold. It restates, with line references, the author's opinions on simple repeating tools, learning from small patterns, geometric plans, lettering, and decoration of spines and inside boards. It covers the plain-text edition only: the chapter's figures are missing and nothing was tested.
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What an early-1900s bookbinding handbook says about designing gold-tooled book cover decoration
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For book designers and binders curious about repeat-pattern decoration pressed in gold. It restates, with line references, the author's opinions on simple repeating tools, learning from small patterns, geometric plans, lettering, and decoration of spines and inside boards. It covers the plain-text edition only: the chapter's figures are missing and nothing was tested.
Useful starting points
- The author says tools that will be pressed many times should be plain and simplified, because any marked irregularity becomes annoying when it repeats across a cover.
- The author advises a beginner to start with very few tools and a simple all-over repeating pattern, altering it slightly each time.
- The chapter's figures are absent from the plain text, so the note leaves out any claim that depends on a drawing.
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