Book binding workshop

We had a bookbinding induction in order to know different kinds of book binding techniques so that well be able to start thinking about the right kind of binding technique to bind our books with.

Pamphlet Book – A pamphlet book is stitched by a thread by having three holes in the centre pages of the book; starting from the middle hole, then going up the first side hole, back to the middle hole and down the other side hole then coming back to the middle hole again and tying the thread together it order to secure the book. It is quite easy to create the booklet and you’ll come out with a simple basic booklet. The pamphlet book is appropriate for books which have a certain small number of pages as it can only handle a certain number of pages as it can be quite hard to close  it properly if there are a lot of pages within it. This booklet is also appropriate publications which may contain a lot of text as it looks are reads like a normal book. 

Stab-Stitch Book – A stab-stich book is created by stitching individual piece of pages together with a thread. Similar to the pamphlet booklet, this technique is also relatively easy to do and is definitely the technique that I was mostly interested in because it was fairly easy to do and I thought that it would allow me to put more page sin the publication unlike the pamphlet booklet. The stitching itself is also quite interesting and not as boring compared to just stapling the booklet or threading it three times quite simply.

Concertina Book – A concertina book is created by gluing together 8 pieces of paper creating a ‘mountain’ and ‘valley’ while folding it. It can also include a hardback made from cardboard and buckram or left as it is. This technique was the most difficult for me to pull off as I messed up on gulping the pages of the booklet. However, my mistake turned out to be more interesting than I thought, as it left me with some pages sticking out which if I was to use this technique can possibly help me with thinking of the layout and more innovative ways formatting the actual designs on the book.