Red Sea Global came to us after a bad experience. A previous supplier had promised thread sewing and delivered glue binding instead, then hand stitched the outer edge to fake the look. It read as stitched. It was not. A glued spine stays stiff, the pages fight you when you open it, and the glue line shows along the gutter.

We are the only supplier in the Kingdom that does real thread sewing, where the sections are sewn through the fold with thread before the cover ever goes on. One other house can do it, but only at very large volume. We will run it from two hundred pieces, so the price per book is higher, and the book opens easily, lies wide open and flat, and has no stiffness and no glue in sight.

Around ten people plus a supervisor crafted each book by hand, and every detail ran through them, the sewn binding, the engraving, the hot stamping, the embossing, the alignment, and the design. For these we bought the raw stock abroad, fabric and paper from the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, because the right materials are what let a sewn book sit flat instead of springing shut.