Medieval Bookbinding Tools


From the Book of Trades: By Jost Amman and Hans Sachs (1568)
Notice the tools and equipment: going clockwise from top:

rolls- for tooling leather
spools of thread
tying-up boards
cabinet makers axe for shaping boards
rasps
finished book with clasps
plough-trimming text block
bow-saw
plane-shaping boards
draw knife
text block hammer-reduce swell
lying presses
unsewn quires
sewing frame
gimlet-for lacing holes in cover boards
From the Book of Trades by Jost Amman and Hans Sachs (1568)


Some of these tools such as the plough were not used in early period

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