The Queen Signs Commonwealth Charter in a Masters Lay Flat Book!

Commonwealth Day began life as Empire Movement Day at the end of the late nineteenth century. The modern Commonwealth did not come about until April 1949 and as a result Empire Day became known as British Commonwealth Day in 1598, before finally becoming Commonwealth Day in 1966. Today, Commonwealth Day is celebrated every year throughout the Commonwealth on the second Monday in March.

Each year a reception is hosted by the Secretary-General at Marlborough House in London, the headquarters of the Commonwealth Secretariat and we're extremely proud to say that this year HM Queen Elizabeth II, who is of course Head of the Commonwealth, signed the Commonwealth Charter in a Masters Bookbinding Lay Flat book! You can see from the picture here that the book laid flat beautifully so that Her Majesty could sign it easily. Just as it's supposed to!

For more information on Lay Flat Binding contact us on 0845 3720323.

Roger Masters
Masters Bookbinding Ltd

Lay Flat Binding - The Way Forward

Hate it when a brochure or map just won’t lay flat? If you force the pages they come loose, or worse, fall out! You no longer have to accept this as just the way it is, or that your double page spreads won’t quite line up perfectly at the spine, because with lay flat binding your pages and images will look beautifully aligned and stay open without any problem.

Lay flat binding is a new process which allows brochures to lay flat and images which can run over two pages without any breaks or matching issues. This is the ideal binding method for high end, exclusive and visual based printed brochures. Typical clients include property developers and creative agencies that are looking for a flow across pages allowing for detailed maps, plans and any image or text to not be broken by the spine or joining of printed sections that conventional printing and binding is known for.

How does it work? We take a sheet of printed paper, e.g. 120gsm which is printed one side, folded print to print, then glued to another folded sheets of 120gsm. This now means the page weight is 240gsm, very much the standard text weight of any corporate product or annual brochure etc. This continues until the book is completed and is then finished to any design spec required. Our latest binding machinery means the ability to produce low to very high runs of brochures and books on a fast turnaround to an astounding level of quality and finish, compared to conventionally bound brochures and books.

Lay flat binding is available in paperback or hardback with a maximum size of 385-365 portrait and a minimum paper weight of 240gsm.

For more information contact us at Lay Flat Binding on 0845 372 0323

Team GB at Masters Bookbinding

Well the Olympics are truly upon us and the excitement is growing throughout the UK. Here at Masters Bookbinding we feel we have already won a gold medal. We were commissioned recently to produce the Team GB comments book by Rebecca Bateman. Bound in red hydrothermo material to the outside cover and with printed end papers, the finished result looked a winner through and through.

The Front cover was thermo debossed, so the GB Team logo is crisp and can be seen clearly. This one of the great benefits of working with thermo re-active materials. See more of the materials we work with here;

http://www.mastersbookbinding.co.uk/bookbinding-materials.aspx

The Team GB Book will take pride of place in the GB Athletes Village area where members of Team GB will be able to add comments and share their experiences of the 2012 Olympics. The internal pages are plain Somerset book wove and the end papers are printed. 

Here you can see Roger Masters the owner of Masters Bookbinding Ltd proudly displaying the Team GB Book.
You can also get an idea of the size of the finished book in Rogers arms. The internal end papers were printed at B1 size, so the whole project has been one of largest to date from a finished book size. You need to be part of
the Team GB Weight lifting team to pick it up.

Masters Bookbinding has a reputation built around producing high quality, hand-finished products. The company has been in operation in the south east for the last 35 years, and has grown from providing mainly binding and restoration services, to now taking on prestigious projects over a diverse range of bespoke products and working closely with the design and print industry.


Need to know more call us on 0845 3720323


http://www.mastersbookbinding.co.uk/

Come to us with an idea and we'll make it work; you're only limited by your imagination. If it can be made out of paper, board, book-cloth or leather, the chances are that we can make it. And we have a wide range of materials, from coloured papers, acrylic coated papers and cloths to leather, in stock to make your item really special.


Wishing Team GB a great Olympics.


Roger Masters
Master Bookbinding Ltd