Bookbinding

Table of contents

Historical bookbinding

1. Introduction
2. Motivation
3. Content of self-bound books
   • Printing free material
     • Wikibooks and Wikipedia
     • Other sources
   • Preservation & restoration of existing books
   • Blank books: notebooks, photo albums, scrap books, planners, sketch books, etc.
   • Self-publishing
4. Types of binding
   • Adhesive
     • Perfect binding
     • Fan binding
   • stiff leaf
   • Side stitch
     • Stapled side stitch
     • Coptic [1]
     • Japanese side stitch (Stab Binding)
   • Saddle stitch
   • Long stitch
   • Sewn book
   • Case binding
   • Traditional hardcover
   • Box making- slip case, Drop-spine boxes [2]
5. Equipment
   • press
   • brush
   • Bone folder
   • Paperknife
   • awl & needle
   • Plane or guillotine
6. Materials
   • paper
     • pH
     • grain
   • adhesive
     • contact/rubber cement
     • PVA homopolymer vs. copolymer
   • spine
     • super
     • Thread
     • stiff materials
   • cover
     • letter size card stock
     • Museum board
     • clear adhesive vinyl

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     • re-used materials
     • binder's board & buckram

See also

• The Wikipedia article on the subject
• "Moleskine Reloaded: How to Rebind a Moleskine Notebook" by Martha, teaching how to sew a Coptic binding