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I’ve done some experiments using this binding for unbound music scores printed on single leaves of paper, that don’t have with not enough left margin to make a either a folded-edge binding, or to be glued/taped into a signature. Not a good binding for thin, flexible sheets (i.e. normal copier/printer paper) sheets. (Although two taped together sheets of copier/printer paper seems heavy enough.) And, yes, this is the simplified version of Coptic single sheet binding. The usual version is (See Smith’s sewing single sheets for much more involvedcomplicated methods.)
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Supplies: 3 curved (recommended) or straight binder needles; light-weight linen binder thread (thinner than pamphlet binding thread), and card-weight paper or pamphlet board to cut for covers.
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