The history of the creation of binding dates back to the era after the invention of printing by Gutenberg in 1440 AD. returns; that the book publishing market was very prosperous. With the increase in the number of literate people and the subsequent prosperity of the publishing market, the bookbinding market also heated up. Some journalists used to do this romantically and artistically; And sometimes they even made the cover more valuable than the content.
History of binding in the world
Until the beginning of the 20th century, that is, the emergence of machine binding; Binding was done manually; From 1930 onwards, that is, with the appearance of the first equipped binding machines; All the steps of binding were done by machine, of course, binding is still done manually today. Manual binding is stronger; But it is obvious that it is much slower than machine binding; Machine binding has always been evolving with the invention of more equipped machines.
In the 1950s; Threadless binding called "Tehcheb" was invented and became popular. This method of binding, which was done without sewing and by machine, replaced bottom embroidery. From now on, using a conveyor belt, the binding process was carried out at a high speed and in a production line.
In the early 1960s, various stages of binding work; From sewing to pressing and packing, it was done without manual intervention. In the late 1960s, machines were developed that could bind up to 60 book covers in one minute. In today's advanced machine binding; Different stages of binding, which were done separately and by different machines, have been integrated. These machines do all the binding steps, even in the last step they pack for distribution.
History of binding in Iran
Journalism and cover-making in Iran reached its peak in the Safavid era; And Esfahani artists showed unique innovation and creativity in its development. During the Safavid period, paper making was popular in Samarkand, Bukhara, Mashhad and Isfahan. And it also continued until the Qajar period; But after that, manual papermaking declined and papermaking flourished in another way.
This art was founded in the Timurid period and especially in the Herat school. Choosing Isfahan as the capital of the country; and the support given to artists; It caused luxurious handwritten Qurans to be bound in the best way. Many copies of Shahnameh, Nizami poems, Jami and works of other famous composers; It was entrusted to the hands of cover makers and editors to turn them into masterpieces of art.
It was at this time that the works of great calligraphers such as Nastaliq; Sultan Ali Mashhadi, Mir Ali Kateb and others were collected; And the cover makers created works using their innovative methods, many of which are now adorning the great museums of the world. The great artists of this art in bookbinding techniques and types of oil and oil and black covers and border making; They brought the books of this art to a stage where many of the works of this era were superior to the Herat school.
In the Safavid period, artists of this field of handicrafts; They were skilled in most of the delicate crafts of that time; As we can see in the biographies of the vast majority of these artists, they excelled in calligraphy, painting, gilding, inking, enameling, and paper making. After the Safavid era, with the transfer of the capital from Isfahan; The art of binding, like other arts, was caught in the bush of oblivion. During the Qajar era, the bookmakers and bookmakers revived this art once again. One of the masters of this art in the Qajar era is Agha Mohammad Taghi Sahaf Esfahani; In addition to binding and cover making, he was unique in his time in designing, painting and designing carpet maps, tiling, leather embroidering and many other techniques. Due date binding is one of the specialties of Part printing and packaging complex.