If you are thinking of assembling your folded pages using a domestic or office stapler, think again. Such machines use clumsy rectangular-section mild steel staples which are prone to rust. Bindery wire stitchers use slimmer wire, which for publications meant to last can be copper or stainless steel—much less likely to corrode and rot the paper. We should therefore learn and apply simple skills no longer practised by the mass-producers
This will be sufficient to deal with a contribution to the jubilee project. A multi-section binding is not really more demanding—it just takes longer—and there are helpful books, new or second-hand; recreational classes at certain local adult education centres will take you further.