In convocation with Simon Harrison I showed my recent mock up using the Coptic stitch binding and spoke about how my work was going so far, I explained that as I wanted to Coptic stitch my book that this wouldn't be able to be done in commercial print. Simon said that this isn't necessarily true and pointed me in the direction of this book in the Library and how it had been bound in a mass produced system.
The coptic stitch binding has been done to an amazingly high level, each thread is incredibly tight and seems as if it is has been done by machine, hand Coptic stitching would take a ridiculous amount of time, effort and more importantly money.
What this coptic stitch allows is the images to lay flat, this is very useful for the reader and designer as nothing is lost in the margin which is often a problem in the way books are made. These images above show the way this book can lay flat.
The cover has been cloth bound and foiled and embossed, there are many limitations with Coptic stitch and creating hard back books is included in this. This publication has stuck on the cloth bound cover to the original cover.
As this binding technique is central to my production finding out how it has been done here for my project is useful. Emailing Gestalten (company that has printed the book) about how they have gone about this process and the limitations of time and cost will be useful research.
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