OUGD404 - Bookbinding

Bookbinding is something I have looked into in the past but haven't had much practice at it. We looked into three different techniques. 

Japanese Stab Stitch:

This process is clean but it also means you lose part of each page from the paper being bound at least half an inch in. I tried to show off the binding technique as best I could during my photography lighting induction. The process looks very neat and almost impossible when you look into it properly from the outside so the binding is hidden.

Accordion/Concertina:

I enjoyed this process but it is the messiest. I think I need to practice the technique a bit more, it's the one I have used the most in the past but not as clean as I remember. Showing off the binding method again, the book is folded in a concertina fashion and glued together. Grey board is used to make hard back covers but I think you could take this method further and apply a hard back cover to a different binding technique.

3 Hole Pamphlet Stitch: 

A very clean and very easy method. Creates a nice feel for a booklet and is probably the most traditional look. The holes can be as many as you want as long as it's an odd number so, this means that you can use this technique for pretty much any sized book. The outside is neat if you get the tensions right but practice is needed to make the inside of the book neat because you have to tie it off and can't really hide it.