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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.
Keith Smith is primarily known for his bookmaking, both as an artist and as a teacher. In addition, Smith is a printmaker, draftsman and photographer. His artwork and books are often unconventional in form, incorporating stitching, cutouts, holes and string, along with text, collage, drawings and prints. [7]
The primary goal of conservation is to extend the lifespan of the object as well as maintaining its integrity by keeping all additions reversible. Conservation of books and paper involves techniques of bookbinding, restoration, paper chemistry, and other material technologies including preservation and archival techniques. [1]
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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.
Design by Hans Holbein the Younger for a metalwork book cover (or treasure binding). Book design is the art of incorporating the content, style, format, design, and sequence of the various components and elements of a book into a coherent unit.
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.
Modern, commercial, bookbinding outfits range in size from the local "copy shop" book binder, using techniques such as coil binding, comb binding and velo binding to factories producing tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of volumes a day using such processes as perfect binding, saddle wire binding, and case binding.