tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25605829.post6431696654229814146..comments2024-02-27T09:08:43.973-04:00Comments on MyHandboundBooks Bookbinding Blog: More about Coptic SewingsMyHandboundBookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09128121850646186100noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25605829.post-85627641034224918262008-11-05T19:07:00.000-04:002008-11-05T19:07:00.000-04:00good info and thanks for posting who won the spook...good info and thanks for posting who won the spooky book contest.... Paigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04702664099837224184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25605829.post-59105539849091785012008-11-04T22:37:00.000-04:002008-11-04T22:37:00.000-04:00Hi Rhonda,Thank you for visiting my little blog. ...Hi Rhonda,<BR/>Thank you for visiting my little blog. Your books are wonderful!<BR/>Thanks,<BR/>Puglette<BR/>:o)Puglettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03950156219761911346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25605829.post-47623918953637345492008-11-03T21:55:00.000-04:002008-11-03T21:55:00.000-04:00Hi Rhonda,Thanks so much for clarifing that! I re...Hi Rhonda,<BR/>Thanks so much for clarifing that! I really appreciate the info, and also all the thoughts that you and others have shared on the nature of coptic binding. Now to hunt down those books... :)Jai and Lauren Soloyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13858051819260556323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25605829.post-45253471977476476312008-11-03T18:09:00.000-04:002008-11-03T18:09:00.000-04:00Brava! I like your idea of renaming the modern exp...Brava! I like your idea of renaming the modern exposed spine stitches. It becomes too confusing, especially for the novice, to call everything Coptic.<BR/>From here on, I shall refer to it as "exposed chain stitch."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25605829.post-37301926046779635932008-11-03T08:45:00.000-04:002008-11-03T08:45:00.000-04:00thanks marloes, i should add that t my little desc...thanks marloes, i should add that t my little description. i also should try to get a copy of that book for myself!<BR/><BR/>tulibri i agree completely. i'm sure that's true, they were not concerned with the appearance of their chain stitch as so many people are now. Thanks for sharing that link, that's a fabulous example! I'm going to add that to the main post - I was looking for an example and couldn't find one last night.<BR/><BR/>dangandblast, so true, the books become much stronger and durable with that covered spine. <BR/>Hmmm. The term Coptic is being overused and misused all the time. The "coptic" binding that is so widespread now, with exposed spine and paper boards etc, should be given a new name. It has evolved into its own form. Then we could more easily distinguish between the contemporary exposed spine chain stitch, and an actual Coptic binding!MyHandboundBookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09128121850646186100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25605829.post-2771126308192638702008-11-03T08:16:00.000-04:002008-11-03T08:16:00.000-04:00Several of my pocket-sized books (text from Gutenb...Several of my pocket-sized books (text from Gutenberg) are done that way -- sewn with chain stitch only, and then given a standard full leather cover, with an unlined spine attached directly to the text block spine. Makes lovely lines across the spine like in the book tulibri posted, still opens nice and flat, but doesn't have the fragility (caused by other things in my pocket wedging themselves in between signatures!) that straight-up exposed-spine coptic would have.DangAndBlast!https://www.blogger.com/profile/11204540335903358779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25605829.post-52821104500124000492008-11-03T05:53:00.000-04:002008-11-03T05:53:00.000-04:00"It may seem crazy to cover up the beauty of a wel...<I>"It may seem crazy to cover up the beauty of a well-formed chain stitch,"</I> -- that's probably from our today-perspective? I imagine that back in ancient times, the beautiful chain-stitch was just the "ordinary necessity". Apart from this, I find leather covered coptic spines very appealing when they are <A HREF="http://paperiaarre.blogspot.com/2007/10/leaves.html" REL="nofollow">done like this</A> :-)tulibrihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17224205703946020476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25605829.post-61063318346666073352008-11-03T01:36:00.000-04:002008-11-03T01:36:00.000-04:00Much better: "Headbands, how to work them" by Jane...Much better: "Headbands, how to work them" by Jane Greenfield. Not a book with glossy pictures, but more like Keith Smith's books.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com