Book headbands help to protect the pageset and add a touch of finesse to the final project.

Here are 9 different colours for your bookbinding projects, whether you are restoring old books or creating new ones. The headband colour typically matches the cover of the book.

These bands are made of starched cotton, with a full width of about 13mm, The rounded section that sits above the page set is about 2mm wide. Sold in a length of 100 cm, so if you're using it on a 20mm thick pageset, you have 50 headbands, or enough for 25 books if you put a headband at each end of the pageset,

If you're adding a ribbon as a bookmark, this is normally glued on before the headband.

Combinations are 

black and white

red and white

dark pink and white

pale blue and white

dark blue and white

purple and white

red and yellow

yellow

grey/pale blue

brown

white

Headbands are packaged in a small cellophane bag and may need to be ironed before use to take out wrinkles and creases. The colours here may be different because of monitors and displays.