Bookbinding for beginners

Chapter 4: EQUIPMENT

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The text presents a graded course in elementary bookbinding designed for upper elementary pupils, emphasizing simple, inexpensive materials, classroom-safe tools, and adaptable projects that teach folding, cardboard construction, and basic mechanical drawing. Lessons progress in difficulty, encourage individual design choices in size, decoration, and color, and aim to develop manual dexterity, initiative, and applied skills in proportion and lettering. Detailed guidance for teachers covers equipment, lesson planning, material handling, and assessment, with suggestions for two hours weekly and alternatives for different grades so that schools without specialized shops or instructors can implement effective constructive manual training.

EQUIPMENT

This equipment is sufficient for the whole course and should last for several years. A strong wooden box with compartments insures an orderly arrangement of tools and prevents breakage. Several rooms may use one equipment and by means of the box, transportation is greatly facilitated. Some system of distributing and collecting material should be devised, and not more than five minutes consumed in making preparations for work.

One for each pupil

Rule
Pr. 6-inch Scissors
Pencil, medium
Tapestry Needle, No. 17
Wooden Triangle, 45°, 7-inch

For class use, the number to be governed by the way in which they are to be used, by the amount of money to be expended. For twenty-five pupils, 12 paste-brushes and 5 punches answer very well.

Paste-brushes 1 inch flat
Eyelet Punches

One of each helpful, but not necessary

Paper Cutter, 12 inch to 15 inch
Straight Edge
Large Shears