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A binder in Portland showed me her 30 year old sewing frame and it made me rethink my whole setup
I was at a small bindery meetup in Portland last month and got talking to a woman who has been binding for over 30 years. She pulled out her sewing frame, and it was this beat up wooden thing her dad built for her in 1991, held together with tape and hope. I asked if she ever thought about getting a new one and she just laughed and told me the frame doesn't matter, it's how you tension the cords that counts. She spent the next 20 minutes showing me her cord lacing method, and honestly it fixed a sagging text block issue I had been fighting for months. I went home and relaced my own frame her way, and my last three books have been way tighter in the gutter. Has anyone else had a seasoned binder walk them through something small that ended up fixing a big problem?
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robinf5126d ago
Doubt tensioning alone fixes a bad frame, tape and hope has limits.
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