Bookbinding
Jan. 18th, 2007 10:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhuSo I've started to work on creating a properly bound draft of my siddur (prayer book) project. This is the one to find out what's going to go wrong. (So far, I've learned that if you have a one-bit-deep color image embedded in a PDF, Acrobat Reader 8 renders it correctly onscreen but as black and white to the printer. Ouch.)
Last night I printed and folded all the signatures (that took about two hours for a 128p codex). This morning I cut the boards and cloth for the cover and glued them together. I hope to stitch the signatures today and do the final assembly tonight, so it can dry for a day and be usable by Shabbat.
It brings back fond memories of the book-repair table in the library office at HCHS. JH was the book-repair master -- he could fix anything and I think he's the only person ever to log over 1,000 hours volunteering at the library. I never qualified to fix anything significant; mostly I did accession paperwork and worked front desk. But looking back on it, the library clique was the coolest nerd thing about high school. (I didn't realize we were a clique until just now.)
Last night I printed and folded all the signatures (that took about two hours for a 128p codex). This morning I cut the boards and cloth for the cover and glued them together. I hope to stitch the signatures today and do the final assembly tonight, so it can dry for a day and be usable by Shabbat.
It brings back fond memories of the book-repair table in the library office at HCHS. JH was the book-repair master -- he could fix anything and I think he's the only person ever to log over 1,000 hours volunteering at the library. I never qualified to fix anything significant; mostly I did accession paperwork and worked front desk. But looking back on it, the library clique was the coolest nerd thing about high school. (I didn't realize we were a clique until just now.)