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PSA: I stopped pressing signatures flat and a 92 year old book in Tulsa taught me why
I used to clamp every signature flat in the press before sewing because that's how I was taught back in 2019, and I figured tighter meant better. Last Tuesday a woman brought in her grandmother's 1931 hymnal from Tulsa, and the spine was still flexible after 90 plus years because the sections had that slight rounded swell. When I opened my own flat pressed practice books from two years ago, the sewing threads had started tearing right at the fold from all the tension. So now I leave a little shoulder on each section and only press after rounding and backing. Anyone else fight the urge to clamp everything flat, or was that just me being stubborn?
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dakota4151d ago
tighter meant better" is the trap in like half of life honestly. You see it with guitar strings, garden soil, even packing a car, more force feels safer but it just wears stuff out faster. That hymnal is proof that a little give is the whole point.
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