Roswell Bookbinding does a lot of work with Bibles, including the binding of one very special Bible in particular: the St. "I've been here for 15 years, and I'm still learning."Īhmadi is also working on a Bible made in the 1600s that is missing a cover. Every restoration is different," she said. "It’s like a haircut, you go to a salon, you want different things, books are the same. "When they come pick it up, they’re very happy. “Restoration is my favorite part because I’m restoring people’s history and family heirlooms and everything," she said. She replaced the spine and the end papers. Raqiba Ahmadi is working on a rare edition of Dante’s "Inferno." “They don’t brag, but they’re artists,” he said. Roswell Bookbinding does restoration of Bibles and heirloom books like this version of Dante's "Inferno." That business dwindled with the rise of the internet. They would repair periodicals out of their garage. Their clients were the Phoenix Public Library and university libraries.
Roswell’s parents started the company in the 1960s. A lot of cases it’s still easier for us to use a 200-year-old book press than a high power, automatic machine."
"So we have all these different machines and process for different quantities and sizes. "We’ll do a run of five copies, or eight copies, but we also do tens of thousands of copies," Roswell said. Some were a couple hundred years old and those, along with the state of the art automated machines, still get used today. It was one of the many machines adding to the din of the 50,000-square-foot warehouse his business resides in. Roswell had an original, 75-year-old Smyth sewer, too. Because a guy named Joseph Smyth invented this process a couple hundred years ago," he said. “The generic term for this is Smyth sewing. We also offer three piece covers and 3/4 style covers using genuine bonded leather.Mike Roswell, president of Roswell Bookbinding, explained. Our standard cover is a one piece cloth hardcover. To custom stamp your logo we must first make a stamping die from your camera ready art, which adds an additional 2-3 days to the processing time. We also offer individual name imprinting on the spine, front cover stamping, and custom logo stamping. The stitch pattern crops in 5/16″ on the binding edge, and the open ability is also somewhat restricted. If the item is produced in individual sheets and contains heavy, glossy, coated paper, short grain paper, or stiff covers oversewing is a strong durable method to use.
If the item is produced in folded sections, we recommend the sewing through the fold option. If the original sewing is intact, saving the sewing involves cleaning the old adhesive and backlining off, inspect the original sewing, and re-glue and reline the book with LBI Standard material. For an additional cost we offer two other methods depending on what fits your project best: saving the sewing and sewing through the fold. Double fan gluing is included in the basic binding. We offer a variety of different leaf attachment methods. When the supplemental material is over and does not exceed the thickness of the text block, to compensate for the space the pocket material requires a process called stubbing is used to add space to the spine of the text block. If the supplemental material is 1/4″ thick or less it can be placed in a pocket glued onto the back board of the hardcover. The solution is to make a product called a Wraparound, which includes a bound hardcover thesis and a hard slipcase to hold the pocket material. Occasionally there may be supplemental material included with a thesis exceeding the thickness of the textblock, which is too thick to be contained in a pocket. For the book to function well, the bound text block must be at least as thick as the supplemental material.
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