Printed & Sprayed Page Edges
Printed & Sprayed Page Edges — The Book’s Hidden Surface
A book is not simply a stack of pages. Its cover carries its spirit, its materials carry its identity, and the edges of its pages carry a hidden geography. Printed and sprayed page edges – an ancient tradition in the art of bookmaking – are what turn a book from an object into a work of art, and sometimes into a treasure chest.
The flat, white surface formed where a book block is trimmed is a space most readers never notice. Edge printing turns it into a canvas. If the cover is the outer world of the story, the artwork worked into the edges is the window that opens inward, into its depth.
“When readers pick up a book they do not meet only a text. Their fingertips feel the cover and the fine craftsmanship along the edges of the pages. This is the book’s first hello.”
With this treatment a book stops being one anonymous spine among many on a shelf and becomes something closer to a painting. A misty forest along the edge of a fantasy novel, gilded palace ornament on a classic, delicate flowers spilling from the edge of a poetry collection – details that let the spirit of the book show on the outside.
Send us your artwork and we will produce a sample edge before you commit to the run.
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