The author describes in detail the history and construction of early tab endbands used on vellum manuscripts throughout western Christendom; early Coptic and Greek endbands; colored silk worked endbands, introduced soon after the invention of printing; and stuck-on endbands. There are eight pages of instructions for making the many types of endbands. There are eight pages of instructions for making the many types of endbands (both laced in and not laced in) adopted at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze. See also AATA 20-1551.