We looked into stitch binding, Japanese stitch binding, a concertina bind, and a perfect bind.
With this stitch bind I also used a corner cutter to cut the corners of the book, I think that this is a nice finish especially to a book like this made from paper.
The bind is 7 holes, its an extension of the basic pamphlet stitch. The holes don't need to be equal and there can be any amount. In this bind the pages are folded into each other, and so if I was to bind like this I would need to think about the pagination.
Whereas in the Japanese bind the sheets are single sheets, a lot easier for printing in this bind the holes go throughout the edge of the paper and so I would need to remember to consider a margin big enough of the bind.
Again like above this bind can be changed, holes can be in different places and more or less can be added.
The most important part was looking into the perfect bind. I wanted to know what the best options where for screen printing/ foiling my own design onto the front covers. I also think the perfect bind is the most appropriate for the era I am working with.
I also found out that I can screen print and foil block onto all of the book covering materials in the workshop, and so I think that this would be most appropriate to pick colours from there.
As well as this screen print / foiling should be done onto the material before using it to bind.
Another bind we looked into was this concertina book, which involves the double pages been stuck to the back of one another. I did find this one confusing and I would prefer to do a concertina as a long sheet rather than stick smaller sheets together.
I also saw this on the way out and it reminded me of some things I'd seen when researching, and packaging for notecards was exactly like this. As well as this it could be a package for the whole 'set' its very strong and sophisticated looking.
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