Research on art forms of cover layouts of thread-bound books

摘要

Thread-bound books originated from the Two Song Dynasty and thrived in the Ming and Qing Dynasty, they are the perfect binding form of traditional Chinese books. This paper focuses on the constitution principles and methods of cover art forms of thread-bound books, and then probes into the relation between cover components and cover beauty in form, the relation between the banding forms of thread-bound books and the cover layout forms as well as the relation between materials of thread-bound books and cover beauty. Based on the analysis on cover art forms of traditional thread-bound books, this paper puts forward the significance that modern books inherit cover designs of traditional thread-bound books, summarizes the cover design approaches of modern Chinese books under the influence of thread-bound books and points out the innovation road of book designers to push the development of modern books design and to carry forward the essence of traditional Chinese books' binding art.