AN INTRODUCTION TO: BOOKBINDING CONTENTS Introduction 4 The art of bindery 4 A Brief History 5 Bookbinding roots 5 Power of the written word 6 Binding 101 8 Anatomy of the book 8 Binding systems 10 Paper selection 12 Handling paper 13 Types of paper 14 Folding techniques 14 Cover ideas 16 Planning Ahead 18 Choosing a bookbinding style for you 18 The Public is an activist design studio specializing in Worksheet: project management 20 changing the world. Step-by-step guide 22 This zine, a part of our Creative Resistance How-to Saddlestitch 22 Series, is designed to make our skill sets accessible Hardcover accordion fold 24 to the communities with whom we work. We Hardcover fanbook with stud 27 encourage you to copy, share, and adapt it to fit your needs as you change the world for the better, and to Additional folding techniques 30 share your work with us along the way. Last words 31 Special thanks to Mandy K Yu from the York-Sheridan Design Program in Toronto, for developing this zine What’s Out There 32 on behalf of The Public. Materials, tools, equipment 32 Printing services 32 For more information, please visit thepublicstudio.ca. Workshops 33 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this Selected Resources 34 license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/. Online tutorials 34 Books & videos 34 About our internship program Introduction Bookbinding enhances the A brief history presentation of your creative project. You can use it to THE ART OF BINDERY BOOKBINDING ROOTS Today, bookbinding can assemble a professional portfolio, be used for: Bookbinding is a means for a collection of photographs or Long before ESS/ producing, sharing and circulating recipes, decorative guestbook, R the modern • portfolios • menus independent and community or volume of literature such as G-P Latin alphabet • photo albums • short stories • poetry books • much more work for artistic, personal or a personal journal or collection RINTIN was conceived, • journals commercial purposes. It is the of short stories or poetry. It can HE-P ancient T craft of assembling pages into also be used for an informational, civilizations • ads a book through the fastening of educational, and advertising had been multiple folded or unfolded papers purposes such as brochures, M/2010/05/ documenting FUN FACT co G. or other material. Depending on pamphlets, programs, and O their thoughts for thousands BL One of the first books R your budget, time, and patience, zines. Regardless of its function, E of years by engraving on stone ever printed for mass you can either get bookbinding bookbinding provides structure for rton or wood with tools and later, The Gutenberg HE production, professionally done or do it creative expression. writing with ink on papyrus or rot Bible, was made in yourself easily at home! There is a parchment by hand. Germany during the 1400s diverse range of inexpensive and Professional bookbinding services by Johannes Gutenberg’s easy ways to turn creative content can be pricy and although DIY P://WWW.B tt Continuing through history, H revolutionary machine into printed matter. can be time-consuming, doing other record-keeping structures — the printing press with it yourself can be rewarding and emerged including scrolls, moveable type. inexpensive: you can personalize manuscripts, and tablets for your piece in countless ways, take recording business transactions, Bookbinding This printing and ownership of your own creation, religious scribes, philosophical typographic system provides make your voice heard and share concepts, navigational maps, allows moveable, metal your message! astronomical and scientific structure components to efficiently documentation, court records, reproduce and print parts for creative The act of publishing ideas, and much more. of a document, like letters imagery, or literature is rewarding expression and and punctuation marks. for many artists, musicians, writers The need to gather and share His invention has changed and designers. However, anyone multiple pieces of information acts as a means history and since paved the at home can create and produce proceeded to the development way for mass publication to transform printed works with a little bit of the book, and when producing and communication. creative content of knowledge, patience and a books by hand became too time creative mind! This zine will guide consuming, the need for a faster into printed you through the ins and outs of and more efficient means of bookbinding with simple tips, publication and distribution led matter. ideas, exercises, information and to the invention of the printing a step-by-step guide with other press which brought us mass crafty suggestions for creating production of the printed book. your own book. - 4 - - 5 - POWER OF THE WriTTEN WOrd NOZONE IX EMPIRE by Nicholas Blechman, Naomi Mizusaki, Knowledge is power, and the written word is even more powerful Stefan Sagmeister than some may think. There are many books that have led radical and (IMAGE ON RIGHT) political movements, spread awareness, and spoken the truth. Books are important to schools, communities and activist groups because we can Through graphic illustrations learn from them and grow stronger as a collective. and comics, artists, designers, photographers, illustrators, and Here are a few examples of radical justice in the form of print and why writers question society and each bookbinding style and technique is effective for the given project: power politics. Paperback bind: portable, React Manual for Amnesty durable for high page counts.. International by Tom Sieu, John Givens (IMAGE BELOw) This manual acts as a guide for activists by encouraging teens and young adults to take a stand against oppression and repression in the government. Hardcover: meant for durability. Coil Bind: can withstand many page turns, is useful as Lexicon Pamphlet Series for the a workbook/notepad since it Institute for Anarchist Studies 2/15: The Day the World Said No allows you to write and navigate (IMAGE ABOve) to War by Connie Koch between pages with ease. (IMAGES ABOVE & ON LEFT) This small-sized pamphlet series aims to use the power of the A hardcover collection of full- written word as political tools by bleed photographs commemorate defining key terms and phrases. the day when over thirty million Saddle stitch or fold: effective demonstrators gathered to protest for short publications, easy to against the violence and war in assemble and hand out, and Iraq in 2003. inexpensive to print. Horizontal: to effectively display landscape images that can span two pages when opened.. Hardcover tape bind: for durability and to preserve the high quality print of the photographs as a display piece. - 6 - - 7 - ANATOMY OF THE BOOK & BASIC TERMS COVERS/BOARDS SIGNATURES TEXT BLOCK TEXT BLOCK COVERS/BOARDS END PAPERS HEAD SPINE FOLIO SPREAD JOINT TAIL FUN FACT: When you fold several sheets of paper into a Head: top edge of the book Endsheets/Endpapers: papers Spread: 2 facing pages of a book signature or a zine, you will at the front and or back of the notice that the middle pages Tail: bottom edge of the book volume, often used for decorative Landscape: when paper/volume stick out. This is called a fore purposes, which can be glued to is in a horizontal orientation edge creep. Try it yourself: Spine: where pages are bound the covers as well gather 10 or more pieces of Portrait: when paper/volume is in paper into a booklet, folded Joint/Hinge: where the corners Folio: a single piece of paper a vertical orientation down in half. You will notice connect with the spine to allow folded once the inner pages bulge out on the book to open the side. Trimming the excess Signature: several folios nested paper length with a sharp Text block: the inside pages or a then sewn together to form the LANDSCAPE PORTRAIT blade or guillotine cutter can group of pages text block easily solve this. Keep this in mind when deciding cover sizes since the creep adds width to the signature and text block. - 8 - - 9 - BOOKBINDING SYSTEMS Thermal and Glue Stitch and Sew I.E. TAPE, PERFECT BINDING I.E. SADDLE WIRE/StitcH, CHAIN StitcH Perfect binding holds the book A saddle wire or saddle stitch is a Coptic stitch (also known as together by the spine of the book metal stitch such as a staple that chain stitch) is extremely flexible with a glued strip of material. is punched through the centerfold since it consists of an open spine This method can be carried out of a single signature– for instance, and multiple signatures bound mechanically (with a machine), or a magazine. with individual boards as covers, manually (by hand). instead of a wrap around cover. Punch and Bind I.E. Fan BOOK, STUDS, RINGS, coiL PERFECT BIND A fan book is held together by one pivot point from a screw, ring, or stud, and opens out like a fan. Binding studs have a similar use to screws and also have covers over the back of the screw. Binder rings allow you to gather FANBOOK SADDLE StitcH coPTIC BINDING any size and or weight of papers together to form an almost keychain-like book. TIP: Perfect binding works best TIP: Books bound by saddle wire TIP: You can replace thread for binding books with at least lie flat when open, so remember with ribbon for a more elegant Coil binding is the most 30 pages, otherwise the glue will to keep the number of pages stylistic approach. economical method for short-run leak with too few pages. under 24. publications. A spiral cord joins loose-leaf pages, single and or multiple signature folds together Hardcover or paperback? and also lies flat when open.