Bookbinding : the complete guide to folding, sewing & binding / Franziska Morlok, Miriam Waszelewski ; translated by Caroline Waight.
Language: English Original language: German Publisher: London : Laurence King Publishing, 2018Description: 417 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 021272056ISBN: 9781786271686 (hbk.) :Uniform titles: Vom Blatt zum Blättern. English Subject(s): BookbindingDDC classification: 686.3| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Bookbinding is a unique and essential reference guide for designers, explaining industrial bookbinding techniques with a focus on the design and conception of print products. Packed full of insights from the world's best bookbinders, it contains everything you need to know about folding, stitching and binding to create beautiful books.
Translated from the German.
Formerly CIP. Uk
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Basics
- Folding and binding techniques (6)
- Constructing a softcover book (8)
- Constructing a hardcover book (10)
- Overview of different covers (12)
- Different kinds of fore-edge (16)
- How to develop a print project
- The concept: Developing and realizing a publication (20)
- Format (24)
- Paper (30)
- Printed sheets (42)
- The printing process and binding styles (54)
- Industrial and hand bookbinding (57)
- How does the production process work? (60)
- Books on demand (64)
- Estimates (67)
- What happens in a bindery (72)
- The book as an object d'art
- Bookbinding, reinterpreted: Twelve interesting examples by contemporary designers (75)
- Overview: Binding techniques (96)
- Folding
- Parallel folds (101)
- Cross folds (109)
- Combination folds (113)
- Wire
- Saddle stitching (121)
- Side stitching (131)
- Glue
- Perfect binding (141)
- Fold gluing (155)
- Lay-flat binding (161)
- Thread
- Thread sewing (171)
- Pamphlet sewing (181)
- Side sewing (191)
- Thread sealing (201)
- Binding systems
- Spiral and comb binding (213)
- Binding rings (225)
- Screws, rivets, eyelets (233)
- Spine bars and springback binders (241)
- Rubber-band binding (247)
- The soft cover: Softcover books (256)
- Single-sheet softcover with 360-degree rotation (260)
- Side-bound softcover (268)
- Softcover bound along the spine fold (274)
- Softcovers: Common styles (282)
- Standard softcover (284)
- Softcover with flaps (288)
- Blank softcover with jacket and flaps (292)
- Blank softcover with drawn-on jacket and flaps (296)
- Tape-bound softcover (300)
- Swiss binding (304)
- Kösel EB 500 (308)
- Softcover with a detached spine (312)
- Flush board binding with spine backing (322)
- The hard cover: Hardcover books (332)
- Single-piece cases (336)
- Cases made of synthetic material (342)
- Multi-piece case bindings (344)
- 3- and 4-piece cases: Full binding (346)
- 5- and 6-piece cases: Half binding (350)
- Padded cases (354)
- Additional information: Design specifications (358)
- Interior paper (360)
- Endpapers (365)
- Case materials (367)
- Covering materials (367)
- Soft covers (374)
- Dust jackets (375)
- Bellybands (375)
- Head and tail bands (375)
- Folding plates, fold-outs, centre folds, fold-ins (376)
- Finishing techniques (377)
- Ribbons (bookmarks) (386)
- Rounded spines (386)
- Rounded corners (386)
- Appendices
- Glossary (388)
- More than 285 technical terms from the book, with brief explanations
- Afterword (413)
- Sources and credits (414)
- Acknowledgements (415)
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