A method for the manufacture of bound textile sheets, comprising treating a textile sheet substrate with a water dispersion of a mixed polymerizate binder of: (a) 80-99% by wt. of a C.sub.1-8 alkyl ester of acrylic acid, a C.sub.1-8 alkyl ester of methacrylic acid, or combination thereof, or a mixture of at least one of said acrylate or methacrylate esters with styrene, (b) 1-10% by wt. of an acrylamide glycolic acid monomer of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen or methyl, R' is alkyl and R" is hydrogen or alkyl, and (c) 0-20% by wt. of another comonomer.