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Many have used our hand bookbinding services for year after year, or now, decade after. The chelsea bindery show the processes of book binding. People have invented their own patterns and techniques and have probably called it something else as well. Bookbinding is technique in which several pages are stacked together to form one readable document. Downie allison downie leather bookbinding downie allison. Nov 05, 20 in the bookbinding industry, the mechanized methodologies had both their pros and cons.
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