Cutting board. The best cutting board is one of hard wood. A common bread-board will serve for small work and costs only a few cents.
Folder. Flat piece of bone. 15 cents.
Glue pot. Get the regular double pot of iron. A No. 2 will cost about 75 cents.
Ground glue. Best, 18 cents a pound.
Gummed paper. Paper and cloth ready gummed and other useful repair material can be bought of Gaylord Bros., Emerson Building, Syracuse, N. Y., and also of Holden Patent Book Cover Co., Springfield, Mass.
Japanese mending paper. Handmade Japanese Window or Shoji Paper used for mending and guarding can be obtained from Japan Paper Co., 34 Union Sq., N. Y. Price $5.00 per ream of 500 sheets 16×22. This is the best of all mending papers for repairing torn leaves.
Knife. A good knife is what is called a shoemaker’s knife, a long blade, square at the end. 15 cents. Keep the corner square by occasionally knocking a piece off the end. For a sharpener wrap a piece of fine emery paper about a square stick and tack it down.
Mending tissue. See Japanese mending paper.
Needles. Several sizes, especially the regular sewing needles of the binder.