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Modern model of Coptic binding with eight sections. 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] Twelve gatherings can be seen in this spine-side view of a book being bound. The section is the basic building block of codex bindings.
Bookbinding is a skilled trade that requires measuring, cutting, and gluing. A finished book requires many steps to complete. This is usually determined by the materials needed and the layout of the book.
Bookbinding, the process of physically assembling a book, is both a trade profession and a medium for visual arts. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
Table of contents – a list of the chapter headings and nested sub-headings with their respective page numbers List of figures – often included in technical books, a list of drawings or depictions in the book; List of tables – often included in technical books, a list of data in rows and columns, or possibly in more complex structure.
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.
The title-page of the Shakespeare First Folio, 1623 Single folio from a large Qur'an, North Africa, 8th c. (Khalili Collection). The term "folio" (from Latin folium 'leaf' [1]) has three interconnected but distinct meanings in the world of books and printing: first, it is a term for a common method of arranging sheets of paper into book form, folding the sheet only once, and a term for a book ...
At the bottom of page 49, the signature mark "3" represents the number of the gathering. A signature mark, in traditional bookbinding, is a letter, number or combination of either or both, which is printed at the bottom of the first page, or leaf, of a section.
Leather inlays, which are similar in form to inlays in woodworking, are shaped pieces of leather the same thickness as the covering leather on a book.A piece of leather the same shape, size, and thickness as the inlay is removed from the covering leather, and the inlay is placed into the resulting space.