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Restoration:

About Book Restoration: Sewn Signatures

The signatures, or folded sheets of paper that make up a book, are sewn together to form one text block.

    

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Sewing frame Signatures Signatures detail
A sewing frame is used to hold the signatures as they are sewn into a text block.