Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Coptic

Characteristics of Coptic bindings:
"exposed spine" sewing - folds of signatures are visible on spine
sewing is visible and creates a chevron pattern - thread can be one or two colors
covers can be made of pretty much anything - see examples; binders board covered with cloth or paper, plexiglass, wood, etc.
at least 160 pages

Examples:

plexiglass covers with maps as paper





binders board covered in corkskin paper; two colors of thread





binders board cover with corkskin and map paper




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