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| Bookbinding Merit Badge
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| Field of study:
| Skill
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| Status:
| Discontinued
| BSA Advancement ID:
| 30
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| Created:
| 1927
| Original/New/Replaced:
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| Discontinued:
| 1987
| Replaced by:
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| Bookbinding is a discontinued merit badge. Bookbinding Merit Badge begun in 1927 and discontinued in 1987. It is now part of the Graphic Arts merit badge.
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Merit badge requirements
- 1. Briefly describe the two principal sewing methods of binding or rebinding books by hand; tell when each should be used.
- 2. Make a scrapbook using binder's board and book cloth or a worthy substitute.
- 3. Rebind a book of four or more issues of a magazine, using binder's board and book cloth.
- 4. Do ONE of the following:
- (a) Visit a bindery and make an oral report to your counselor on the observed method of binding a book, pamphlet or magazine.
- (b) Write an article of at least 200 words on bookbinding as a career.
Notes
Bookbinding Merit Badge had two designs: one with a bookmark and one without.
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