OUGD504 - Studio Brief 1 - Analysing and Reflecting on Primary Source Bookbinding Material

Gathering and analysing more hardback books in greater detail has revealed some intriguing binding methods that have only been noticed when looking at minute specific details. It seems as though these publications are stitched together and then stuck down using perfect bound techniques. This method could give more structural integrity to the pages and is definitely a process that needs to be experimented with further.

The middle of one of the sections reveals where the pages have been stitched together.