The Difference Between Wraparound and Wire Binding

Packet back binding is an ancient Chinese book binding form, generally believed to have begun in the Yuan Dynasty, to the middle of the Ming Dynasty before the use of this method. Line binding is one of the methods of bookbinding. Its distinctive feature is the binding of the book line exposed outside the book. Line binding is China's traditional binding method, and the introduction of foreign "foreign binding" books relative. Binding will be printed pages according to the center seam folding, so that the mouth of the book is aligned, before and after the book plus cover, eyelets threaded into.

Wire-bound books are only suitable for soft cover, and each book should not be too thick, so a wire-bound books are often divided into several books, dozens of books. So people put each book plus a book letter (made of cardboard and cloth book cover), or with the top and bottom of the two wooden boards to the rope bundle, in order to protect the books. Thread-bound books prevailed in the Ming Dynasty after the Wanli years. It was developed from the butterfly binding and backpack binding.

Binding structure

Wrapped back binding will be folded back to back, so that the side of the text to the outside, the plate mouth as the mouth of the book, and then the pages of the two sides of the book is glued to the spine, and then use the paper twist through the binding, and finally wrapped around the back of the whole sheet of the book coat. Because of the back binding of the mouth of the book to the outside, vertical put will wear the mouth of the book, so the back binding of the book is usually flat on the bookshelf.

The binding of books and the use of butterfly binding is more convenient, but the binding procedures are still more complicated, so soon to be replaced by another form of binding - wire binding.