| LINK-STITCH ON TWO STATIONS |
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This unsupported sewing is the most common in Islamic manuscripts. The sewing stations are usually positioned roughly a third or a quarter of the spine-length from the head and tail of the manuscript. The thread goes into the gathering at one of these stations, passes along the spine-fold on the inside of the gathering, and exits the gathering on the spine at the other station. The thread then passes behind the thread going into the adjacent station on the previous gathering and up through the loop formed by itself in this passage. Once the thread is pulled taut, the loop cinches the thread passing through it, thereby forming a kind of knot to secure the sewing. It then continues on to the next gathering to be sewed. Thus as the sewing progresses, two chains of linkages are formed: one chain links all the gatherings at the stations adjacent to each other towards the head, the other links all the gatherings at the stations adjacent to each other towards the tail of the gatherings.
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- DRAWING KS
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AUTHORS: PAUL HEPWORTH AND KARIN SCHEPER