Study Task 09 - Bookbinding

Japanese Binding – 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, achieved by turning in the edge of the cover boards to create a hinge; the book is then sewn from the inside. We would only recommend binding Japanese style for large or landscape format books as the binding requires a large margin. 

Coptic Binding – 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, and two loose covered boards with a chain like stitch across the spine. 



Section Sewn - Your 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 attached. A Section Sewn book, regardless of pagecount will be able to lay flat.