Japanese Stab Binding Books

 Throughout the last two classes we have learned different techniques and styles of making a Japanese Stab Binding Book. This being Japanese 4 hole binding, Noble binging, and Tortoise- Shell Binding. Though the earliest known book binding was “ Butterfly Binding” in China in 1000 C.E. “Bookbinding is the process of physically assembling a book from an ordered stack of paper sheets that are folded together into sections or sometimes left as a stack of individual sheets.” The stack is bound together along one edge by threads that can make numerous different desighns as wells as a colorful cover, typically. 

Here are some examples:

By Ffion

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By Iveta Krajcirova