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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manycats, post: 9565161, member: 13761&quot;]This is based on traditional Japanese binding methods, no doubt related to the interest in all things Japanese around the time. The original thread was probably silk, which does degrade over time, and there were (you can see remnants) cloth bits over the corners, shown as gray in the diagram below. I&#039;m afraid I find your bright white nylon, as we would say, &#039;very unsympathetic&#039;. But you could find some embroidery floss at the hobby shop of a similar red to the original. Here&#039;s the sewing pattern for a four-hole binding, which is traditional; 5-hole might work a bit different, so you&#039;d have to do a little calculating, but this shows the principle. (From Kojiro Ikegami, <u>Japanese Bookbinding</u>, Weatherhill, 1986)[ATTACH=full]458566[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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