The article is devoted to the little known topic of the design of bindings of Old Believer books in the 2nd part of the 19th – the beginning of the 20th century. During this period, new technological solutions began to be used in bookbinding workshops to save time and effort while maintaining the appearance of new bindings to medieval patterns. As a result, bookbinding production acquired an industrial flow character. This particular story demonstrates a more general pattern: the Old Believers readily accepted technological and cultural innovations they needed and easily justified their use in their activities, assimilating and adapting new trends. The article raises the question of typologizing the results of such innovations in the bookbinding craft – the cliche frames that appeared massively in the period under review among the embossed decor of the bindings of Old Believer publications. Several types of stamping with cliche frames on old printed publications for Old Believers are described. The article was written on the basis of an analysis of Old Believer books in the collections of the Laboratory of Archaeographic Research of Ural University and private book collections examined during field observations by employees of Archaeographic Laboratory of Moscow State University.
Borovik et al. (Wed,) studied this question.