Bookbinding
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Bookbinding is the process of building a book, usually in codex format, from an ordered stack of paper sheets with one's hands and tools, or in modern publishing, by a series of automated processes.
A traditional bookbinder at work
Bookbinder's type holder
Early medieval bookcase containing about ten codices depicted in the Codex Amiatinus (c. 700)
9th-century Qur'an in Reza Abbasi Museum
Coptic binding
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Coptic binding or Coptic sewing comprises methods of bookbinding employed by early Christians in Egypt, the Copts, and used from as early as the 2nd century AD to the 11th century. The term is also us
Bookbinding
…The history of book-binding methods features: Coptic binding: a method of sewing leaves/pages together Ethiopian binding…
Simple Coptic binding (model)
Detail of Coptic-style sewing (model)