What are the ancient book binding

Ancient books in the form of binding common scroll binding, wire binding, by folding, and cyclone binding, Van clip binding, gold and jade, and so on. First, scroll binding

Scroll binding according to the order of the book pages bonded, the end of the bonding wooden or other materials made of round shafts, the first end of the bonding of thin wooden rod, and then to the end of the axis for the axis of the forward rolled into a bundle of framing forms.

Scrolls began in the silk book, the Sui and Tang dynasty paper book prevalent in the paper book, and later generations are used, modern framing of paintings and calligraphy is still used in scrolls.

Second, Van folder mounted

Written in order to write the text content of the shell or rectangular pages stacked, up and down with a board clamped, and then hit the hole tied rope. This is China's ancient introduction from the Western region, India, Sanskrit Bayeux sutra unique form of binding.

Three, the scripture folding

After bonding the pages in order, according to a certain size of the left and right repeatedly folded, and then paste the book jacket. Because the Tang Dynasty Buddhist scriptures, Taoist scriptures for a long time using this form, so people will be called the scripture folding binding.

Four, the whirlwind

The whirlwind by the evolution of the scroll, the whirlwind, also known as the "whirlwind leaf", "dragon scale". In the middle of the Tang Dynasty, there was such a form. By a long paper for the bottom, the first page of the whole frame mounted on the bottom, from the second page on the right side of the word with a strip of paper glued to the bottom, the rest of the pages page by page to the left glued to the bottom of the previous page. The pages of the book are accumulated, reading from right to left page by page, collection from the beginning of the volume to the end of the volume rolled up.

This form of binding rolled up from the outside and scroll binding, but the internal pages like a whirlwind, so the name "whirlwind binding"; unfolding, the pages are like scales arranged in an orderly manner, so it is also known as the "Dragon Scale binding".

Fifth, the butterfly

will write, print a good book pages with the word page folded, folded edge to the right, forming the back of the book, and then the folded edge of the page by page glued together, and then wrapped with a book cover back of the book. Pages when flipping the center of the plate when centered, turn over and spread on the table like a butterfly spreading its wings, so called butterfly.

Sixth, package back binding

Package back binding is to write, print the pages of a book without a word folded, folded edge towards the left, the remaining width of the spine of the formation of the right, and then hit the eye, with a twist of the paper to the pages of the book binding, and then a book cover wrapped in the back of the book binding method.

The main difference between the wrapped binding and the butterfly binding is that it is folded pages of the text face outward, back to the opposite. Two pages of the fold in the heart of the book at the mouth, all the folded pages, folded together, stamped flush with the fold, the heart of the plate on the inside of the rest of the paper twisted through up. With a piece of paper slightly larger than the pages of the back of the book, from the front cover package to the spine and back cover, and then cut the remaining edges, so that a book is bound.

Wrapped back binding to solve the butterfly binding is no words on the reverse side of the volume as well as the drawbacks of the binding is not secure. But the back of the package is still bound in paper twists, wrapped book back, so it is also just easy to collect, can not withstand repeated readings.

Seven, wire binding

will write, print a good book page to the wordless one face folded, folded edge towards the left, the rest of the width of the right to form the spine, plus the book cover, and then use the line to the pages of the book even with the book cover bound together into an album, staple line exposed on the outside.

There is no difference between wire binding and wrap-around binding in terms of folding, but unlike butterfly binding and wrap-around binding, it is not bound with paste, but with thread.

Eight, gold inlaid

White lined paper lined into the middle of the folded pages, beyond the pages of the sky, ground and back part of the book folded back and the pages of the flat, in order to make the thickness of the uniform ~