Visual Narrative Brief 2 Book Binding

I originally intended to bind my book using a Japanese style binding and to this end I planned out the space I would need and added it to my illustrations so each had a 2 cm border where I would put the stitching. I also made a practice book In this style although the paper was a thinner stock compared to the paper I used for my final pages. So when I went to finally bind my final pages together I quickly realised that if I bound my book like this I wouldn't be able to open the book properly. So in the end I decided to perfect bind the book by putting several layers of pva down the edge of the book to bind the pages together and then put a piece of fabric across to hold them together and then i put on a final coat that had been mixed with black paint to match the front and back covers. Although this has made my book very fragile but I think it has the best finish I could have got.