[BKARTS] binding newspapers

[Laurel Parker <keylimepie14@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello fellow binders

Any advice to bind newspapers? The ones in question are a year's worth of 
weeklies. Each week is a folded section of just a few pages so that makes 
already a good thickness for a sewn signature. The format is roughly the 
format of the NY post (maybe a little smaller).

The client wants a flat spine for a modern appearance.

My search for advice:  newspaper being so acidic and fragile, I don't think 
it's a good idea to sew these into a standard square back binding, with the 
pva directly on the backs of the signatures. Seems like in just a few years 
the paper will probably crack on the glue line. My inclination is to sew 
them onto folded tabs, and then the tabs get sewn onto tapes, glued, lined 
etc. Or, a thin strip of japanese tissue gets folded around the fold of each 
signature (i.e. each issue), and that is what will receive the glue and 
spine linings.



Do any of you library binders out there with experience binding newpapers 
have some advice on the matter?

Many thanks

Laurel Parker

www.deuxiemerue.com

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