Talk:BPG Endbands

I have heard that the steps offered by Greenfield and Hille (1990) are incorrect for the Renaissance chevron and Armenian headband. If this is true, what is a better source? Have the instructions been corrected in the 3rd edition (2017)?--Kkelly (talk) 16:28, 12 October 2017 (CDT)

Some notes on the 2024 additions to the page

In the section on "Romanesque supported tab endband on double cores," I am uncertain if "B pattern" and "figure 8 pattern" are the correct terms to use. --Kkelly (talk) 21:28, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

Thoughts on Ligatus

I removed a lot of this text from the main page and added some additional thoughts. --Kkelly (talk) 18:32, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

There are a lot of new (2021-2023) entries to LOB, but many are lacking definitions and all are lacking photos. This makes it difficult to adopt that plan for this page. They do seem to include front and back bead terminology, which is great.--Kkelly (talk) 18:35, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

endband techniques are a subset of forwarding techniques. The varieties are further broken down into primary sewing techniques distinguished by the pattern of the thread (helical and whipped-cord, and secondary sewings distinguished by the pattern of the thread or the thongs (braided, helical, or whipped-cord).

• primary sewing (endband techniques)

The process of sewing an endband down into the gatherings of the bookblock with or without a core. Primary endband sewing must by definition be entirely separate from the sewing of the bookblock. [...] Alternative label: foundational sewing

• helical endband sewing

A form of primary sewing of an endband in which the thread having been taken down the centre of one gathering is brought up on the spine to go over an endband core and down into the next gathering without linking with the previous tiedown or making any form of bead. It is the type of primary sewing that is typically found on Islamic endbands.

• whipped-cord primary sewing

The sewing used to tack an endband core to the head or tail of a spine of a bookblock. Whipped sewing was not used as a structural sewing but simply as a means of holding the usually decorated core in place, and results in external tiedowns which appear at an angle on the spine. This is because the thread as it emerges from the spine-fold of one gathering is taken across the spine to the point on the core where the next internal tiedown is to be made.

• saddle sewing

A form of sewing which employs a repeated figure-of-eight sewing. [...] Saddle sewing is most often found on books as the secondary sewing used with covered endbands. Alternative label: saddle stitch

• secondary sewing (endband techniques)

The sewing, often purely decorative, which wraps around a sewn endband core but which is not tied down into the bookblock. [...]

• braided secondary endband sewing

A type of secondary endband sewing in which threads or thongs are braided around the core of a sewn endband. The braiding may be done before or after the book is covered and if after, will go through the covering material at head and tail of the spine. [...] Alternative label: plaited endbands

• helical secondary endband sewing

A secondary sewing executed by winding thread, or threads, usually coloured around the primary-sewn endband in a helix from one side to the other.

• whipped-cord secondary sewing

Lengths of coloured twisted cords whipped with thread to the exposed edge of the stuck-on endband lining. Typically found on some Germanic stuck-on endbands of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, this technique will not be found on sewn endbands.

Original BCC content

The following is draft content from the Book Conservation Catalog, from approximately 2003. It may be useful in the development of this page. ENDBANDS The following categories are found in this section:

MATERIALS used to support the endband and thread used to sew the endband

TECHNIQUE/PROCESS will describe the major structural types

STYLE will identify technique by name

SUPPORT MATERIALS

animal skin

tanned leather

tawed

parchment and vellum

cane (wood)

cat gut

cord

flax

jute

hemp

paper rolled

paper board

THREAD MATERIALS

linen

cotton

silk

TECHNIQUE/PROCESS

sewn on

stuck on

STYLE

Armenian

Coptic

chevron end bands

Ethiopian

French double headband

German braided headband

Greek

hand sewn

headband with a bead at the edge

headband with bead at the spine

headband w/ a bead at the spine and edge

Italian

Islamic

laced into cover

machine-made

primary endband

plaited endbands

stuck on