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  2. Coptic binding - Wikipedia

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    Coptic binding. Coptic binding or Coptic sewing comprises methods of bookbinding employed by early Christians in Egypt, the Copts, and used from as early as the 2nd century AD to the 11th century. [1] [note 1] [2] The term is also used to describe modern bindings sewn in the same style. Coptic bindings, the first true codices, are characterized ...

  3. Ethiopian binding - Wikipedia

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    Ethiopian binding. The Ethiopian bookbinding technique is a chain stitch sewing that looks similar to the multi section Coptic binding method. According to J. A. Szirmai, the chain stitch binding dates from about the sixteenth century in Ethiopia and Eritrea. These books typically had paired sewing stations, sewn using two needles for each pair ...

  4. Long-stitch bookbinding - Wikipedia

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    Long-stitch bookbinding. In the art of bookbinding, the longstitch technique is used for binding the sections (signatures) of a book without using glue. In Non-adhesive Binding: Books without Paste of Glue (1999) Keith A. Smith describes that binding a book with a "longstitch through a slotted cover" involves directly sewing each section ...

  5. Secret Belgian binding - Wikipedia

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    Secret Belgian binding. The Secret Belgian Binding is a method of bookbinding that uses a primary and a secondary sewing, resulting in a distinct thread pattern on the cover and spine of the finished book. The primary sewing is used to create the textblock. The secondary sewing is used to bind the textblock to the cover boards.

  6. Bookbinding - Wikipedia

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    Bookbinding is the process of building a book, usually in codex format, from an ordered stack of paper sheets with one's hands and tools, or in modern publishing, by a series of automated processes. Firstly, one binds the sheets of papers along an edge with a thick needle and strong thread. One can also use loose-leaf rings, binding posts, twin ...

  7. Traditional Chinese bookbinding - Wikipedia

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    Records of Wenlan Pavilion, an example of a stitched bound book, Qing dynasty. Yin shan zheng yao, 1330, Ming dynasty. Traditional Chinese bookbinding, also called stitched binding ( Chinese: 線裝 xian zhuang ), is the method of bookbinding that the Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, and Vietnamese used before adopting the modern codex form. [1]

  8. Section (bookbinding) - Wikipedia

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    Section (bookbinding) In bookbinding, a section, gathering, or signature is a group of sheets folded in half, to be worked into the binding as a unit. [1] The section is the basic building block of codex bindings. In Western bookbinding, sections are sewn through their folds, with the sewing thread securing each section to the one bound before it.

  9. Bookbindings in the British Library - Wikipedia

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    The original tooled red goatskin binding of the 7th century St Cuthbert Gospel is the earliest surviving Western binding. The British Library contains a wide range of fine and historic bookbindings; however, books in the Library are organised primarily by subject rather than by binding so the Library has produced a guide to enable researchers to identity bindings of interest.

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