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FLAT BACK BINDING-
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elegant, acid-free books. This hard-back binding style works best for books up to about 80 sheets/160 pages. Involves formatting the text into folded sections (read more below). Text printed on both sides of the sheets. The book block is sewn onto linen tapes, the spine reinforced, and then attached to the cover. Title and/or images can be either be inlaid or printed directly onto the cover paper. The inlay process: You choose the color of the Cover Paper and the Spine Canvas. Ribbon Page Markers optional. Page Paper: We have a variety of papers available for the pages. Our standard is white, 118 gram, no texture. However, feel free to consult other weights and textures. Deckled (hand-torn) fore edges are also an option. See below. |
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THE FLAT BACK BINDING PROCESS An abbreviated overview: (The above photo is a particularly colorful book block already sewn together, but not yet attached to the covers of the book.) The sections are first sewn together over linen tapes. In the above photo the linen tapes can be seen crossing the spine. The stitches can be seen running across the linen tapes, and in the chaining at the head and tail of the book block. The stitches run pristinely up and down the spine, through the sections, over the tapes. Once the book block is sewn, the spine is reinforced with Japanese Paper and mull (binding gauze), before being attached securely to the hard-back cover. FORMATTING & PRINTING THE CONTENT: 
 The book block (the pages of the book) is made up of folded sections. Each folded section has 3 to 6 sheets of paper, folded in half. Each folded sheet of paper is 4 pages of the book. --If you are not familiar with desktop publishing, but you are interested in this binding style, we can format and print your content for you appropriately so that it can be folded and bound in sections. --If you are familiar with desktop publishing, and can format your content in the appropriate sections (or booklets as some programs call them), all we would need to do is let you know our specs for binding pre-formatted and pre-printed material (margins, number of pages in each section/booklet, etc). DECKLED FOREDGES are also an option (The outside edge of the book block is hand-torn) 
 Variation of the Flat Back Binding: REINFORCED LOOSE SHEET BINDING The Reinforced Loose Sheet Binding looks exactly like the Flat Back Binding but the binding work underneath (not seen) is different. We do not need to do special formatting into sections. In the Reinforced Loose Sheet Binding, the book block is made up of stack of loose sheets (not folded sections), and bound using reinforced glue and string. It is a durable binding, but the craftsmanship is less involved and the pages do not lie as flat when opened as the Flat Back Binding. 
 In this same format we also offer The Blank Composition Book For Musicians & Composers | |||||||||||
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CONTACT US ABOUT YOUR PROJECT, and we will quickly provide you with a price quote based on the answers to the questions below. To do so, please copy and paste the following text into an e-mail message to us: CUSTOM BINDING INQUIRY Binding Format Desired (Japanese Stab Binding, Flat Back Binding/Variation of, or Tight Back Binding): Number of Copies: Type of Content (Poetry? Novel? Other?): Can content be sent to us as an email attachment? (If not, how do you prefer to send it?) Content includes color, or is it all black and white? If content includes color, about how many full color pages are there? Physical Size of Book (Height & Width): Number of Printed Pages: Other misc. details about my book project: I am interested in a Clam Shell Box or Slip Case (y/n): Must have my Custom Bound Books by: (date) |
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PHOTO GALLERY Flat Back Bindings, and Variations Thereof produced by Transient Books: (roll over images for captions) 
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