BOOK BINDING 101
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Book binding is the process of collecting stacks of paper and assembling it into a book.
The paper sheets are folded and stacked then stitched together at the spine to make the book.
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stain in the wound. The finished leaves were then numbered
metal stylus. which were then cut into two with a d with ink, forming a This leaf was then dried and rubbe
ia where a set of rules for The process of binding started in Ind n down onto palm leaves Hindu law or philosophy were writte
Where it all began...
protect the manuscript leaves. Buddhist monks spread this idea fromAfghanistan to china in the first century bc.
boards at the ends mak ing the palm leaf book. When the book was closed the excess thread would be wrapp ed around to
and 2 twines where threaded through each leaf and wooden
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There was a shift in binding where the romans invented the codex. This was less expensive than the scrolls used and it also created a new, more protective, and decorative book. After some time, leather tooling was added to it as a cover for the books.
Then, more metal was introduced into book binding. The earliest surviving metal books were found in Syria. Throughout its history the process of bookbinding was documented. In 1508 Pasteboard replaced wood for a book cover but it did not catch on until 1520 in England.
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Later on in 1741, Christoph Ernst wrote the first manual on book binding.
His work was published in several volumes covering every aspect of the process. In 1810, the British publishers introduced cloth as a binding material. Initially, they covered the boards with the fabric.
William Pickering produced the first cloth edition with a paper spine. Over centuries other materials from ivory to glass
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have been used to bind books. Another decorative method for bookbinding was gilding.
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Perfect bound books can also be useful for manuals, catalogues, and annuals.
Pages are folded into sections (termed signatures in the industry) and glued with a heavier printed wrap-around cover into the spine using a strong adhesive.
It’s not the strongest form of binding and your book won’t open flat; you’ll know a book has been poorly perfect bound when your pages start falling out.
1. PERFECT BINDING
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Our most secure binding method. Here pages are folded together into sections (signatures). Each section is then sewn into the following section along the spine.
The spine is then glued together for extra support and the cover then attached.
A Section Sewn book, regardless of pagecount will be able to lay flat.
2. SECTION SEWN
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A non-adhesive form of binding that stems from bookbinding methods employed by ancient Egyptians!
Signatures are sewn through their folds, and attached to one another.
They are again sewn through two loose covered boards with a chain like stitch across the spine.
3. COPTIC BINDING
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This is useful for binding single sheets of paper. You can have either a soft back or hard back cover which attaches to the text block with decorative stitching along the spine.
Another option using this decorative sewing technique is to only expose the stitching on the inside of the book. This is achieved by turning in the edge of the cover boards to create a hinge.
The book is then sewn from the inside. It is recommended to use Japanese style binding for large or landscape format books as the binding requires a large margin.
4. JAPANESE BINDING
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