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WHIP STITCHING [1 record]

Record 1 1997-05-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Forwarding, Folding, and Binding (Printing)
DEF

Sewing various sections of a book over the binding fold.

OBS

The leaves are stitched closely together in sections; these sections can then be sewed like folded sheets in the usual way. When bound, the leaves of such a book will not open perfectly flat.

OBS

Some authors use the term oversewing to describe the machine-sewing technique and overcast sewing and whip-stitching to describe the hand-sewing technique.

Key term(s)
  • whip stitching

French

Domaine(s)
  • Façonnage, pliage et reliure (Imprimerie)
DEF

En reliure, manière de coudre les feuillets ensemble en passant le fil dans la marge de fond.

Spanish

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