Binding

To get some inspiration of how to bind my book I looked at the options available out there:

Saddle Stitch: pages are folded and stapled together with metal or wire.

Perfect Bind: Pages folded into sections and then wrapped in a cover glued on with a strong adhesive.

Spiral: Using a spiral coil to hold hole punched pages together.

Pamphlet stitch: running stitch sewn down the spine

Coptic Binding: sections are sewn in their folds then attached to one another again by sewing with two loose covered boards with a chain like stitch across the spine.

Japanese Binding: Useful for binding individual sheets, can either be soft back or hard back. Can be used to create decoration on the front and back cover.


After a lot of consideration I think I have decided to go for Japanese binding as the decoration of the bind could be made to look like the wire found in bicycle wheels.












The detailing is very fine and string like.
Below are some examples of the Japanese binding that I like.