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Keeping it all Together – Lush Albums Binding Process

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We truly believe that Lush Albums created by Finao are one-of-a-kind albums that are worthy of your one-of-a-kind photographs. Every album is thoughtfully crafted with care by a team of artisans. From cover to cover, literally, each album is made with uncompromised quality.

One of the most important features of the album is its binding. Today we wanted to share some valuable information about the Finao binding process and the difference it makes to your images and your album.

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Bridging the Gap

Finao uses a “folio” style of construction. Folio construction means that the pages lay flat, eliminating the gap from one page to the next. Old-fashioned coffee table books without a folio style have thinner pages that are stitched or stapled together. Because of the way they are bound together so tightly, the books can’t lay flat. Each image is forced to bend at the inside margin. It’s impossible to have an image cross pages because of the deep gutter where the pages meet.

With Finao’s folio construction, you’re not losing any of your image in the center. This construction technique eliminates the gap between one page and the next. When the book is open, the pages lay beautifully flat. This allows your stunning images to flawlessly cross from one page to the next. There’s no ugly gap in the middle you have to design around. This construction provides a seamless panorama, providing an album worthy of your work.

What’s Inside Matters

Each album is both animal-friendly and environmentally-friendly, crafted with pure-quality, all-natural photo glue. The matte pages are strong and sturdy, made from 100% plant-based cellulose. The album is supported by a thick spine. When the album is open, the spine lays flat, supporting the pages and displaying the images beautifully. It keeps everything together with no sagging or skewing of the pages. This strength and support will preserve the quality of your album for years to come.

There is a difference when it comes to binding, and the quality that Finao provides is without compromise. Each Lush album is designed with quality and care, we know that the binding is so important.

Contact us to learn more about the process or to start designing an album for your photography business.

How Lush Albums are Eco-Friendly

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When you, as a photographer, give your clients the option of fine art albums for their portraits, what you’re really doing is providing an opportunity for them to have a lasting keepsake that will be passed down from one generation to the next. This idea of something everlasting is such a driving force behind why we make Lush albums with eco-friendly and animal-friendly materials. Those materials help reduce the size of our footprint on the earth, which in turn helps keep the planet going strong and something we can count on for a very long time

What Makes our Albums Green

We decided early on that we wanted our albums to be as green as they are durable and beautiful, and we were so happy to find that we could do this with the base pages for our prints and through our partnership with print lab Finao.

First of all, the base pages and prints we use for Lush albums are made of cellulose, which is a major structural component for plant cells. Cellulose gives plant cells their toughness, and cellulose molecules are incredibly hard to break down. What’s even better than its strength is the fact that cellulose is found in every single plant, which means that all different sources of sustainable vegetation and waste – corn husks, bamboo, or left-over wood scraps – can be used. It’s not made from cutting down trees or even using recycled tree-made paper.

The reason we chose to work with Finao, besides their invariable need for amazing customer service, is the fact that they, as a company, also strive to be kind to the earth. They do this by offering cover materials that are PVC-free and vegan. They also use post-consumer recycled and biodegradable materials as often as possible, especially in their packaging.

Being Kind to Animals – Even the Tiniest

Being green is more than being good to the planet. It’s also about being good to the animals on the planet, no matter their size. To make our products as animal-friendly as possible, we don’t use animal-based materials for our books. For instance, our Zen silk line of books look and feel just like silk, but those itty bitty worms had no part in the process of making them.

Learn more about the Zen Silk Collection in the video below. 

Please don’t hesitate to contact us to learn more about our eco-friendly albums and how you can get them for your clients!