Marsha Kelly
Bookbinding, wood veneer cover. 115 Free Bookbinding Projects. Posted on | February 1, 2011 | 12 Comments 115 Tutorials & Projects! I’ve always been interested in learning how to bind a book. I saw my first handmade book in a craft store in Baltimore. It had a simple five-stitch bind, a photocopied cover, and inside was an ancient Indian folk legend. Since that day, I’ve tried quite a few of the easier bookbinding methods myself - pretty much everything but traditional binding. I’ve made stitched books, accordion books, one page folded books (which I will eventually post a tutorial for), stapled books, and mini books. How To Bind A Book Using Stitching Methods These how-to’s are for traditional methods of making both softbound and hardbound books.
How To Bind A Book Using The Glue Method Using glue to bind a book is a quick and easy bookbinding method. How To Bind A Book Using Unusual Methods The following binding methods are rarely used today, except in art books. How To Bind A Book By Recycling A Current Book How To Bind A Book Using Unusual Materials. Paper Mache Clay. Several years ago I developed a new recipe for a sculptural material I call “paper mache clay.” This material is so easy to use and so easy to make that I now use it exclusively for all my paper mache sculptures.
The recipe has now gone “viral” and is being used by artists all over the world. It might be a bit more accurate to call this material “home-made air-dried cellulose-reinforced polymer clay,” but that’s way too hard to say (or type!) , so for now, let’s just call it paper mache clay. The first video below shows how to make the paper mache clay, and the second video answers some common questions that I’ve received from readers since I first developed this recipe. Below the videos you’ll find the recipe written out, and a few comments about how it’s used. (This recipe is the basis for my book “Make Animal Sculptures with Paper Mache Clay.”) Paper Mache Clay on Snow Leopard Sculpture As you can see above, the clay can be modeled into fairly fine details. Making Your Paper Mache Clay. Bookbinding 101 - Getting Started. I seem to get a lot of inquiries from people who are interested in learning how to do some bookbinding.
It would be nice if I could just send these people to a single magic website for some good introductory bookbinding lessons; however, that website doesn't exist yet. There are some amazing resources online for bookbinders and lots of tutorials, but I have found nothing that is as organized and dedicated to teaching basic bookbinding as a face-to-face class or a good solid analog book! For people who have never made books before, I would suggest buying either Cover to Cover by Shereen LaPlantz or Creating Handmade Books by Alisa Golden - these two books cover many of the same techniques so you would not need to have both (ok, so you can't afford to buy a book, well, you can probably get one of these or some other similar book from your local library).
The Japanese Bookbinding book by Ikegami is another great book to start with. The CBBAG Home-study programme:www.cbbag.ca/HomeStudy.htm. DIY Coptic Stitch Binding (How to Make) Chain or Coptic Stitch Bookbinding Tutorial. Here’s another method of binding your book with an open spine…a chain stitch or also called coptic stitch binding. This is a great method for when you have book covers that are individual boards instead of completely wrapped around the entire journal. You are basically binding all the signatures and covers together with a connected stitch that holds everything together tightly, but with super flexibility. The pages will open up completely flat and that’s a big reason why this method is so popular. I’m sure you might have seen lots of books on Etsy bound in this way. There are variations to the chain stitch (as with everything) but this is how I go about binding with this technique… From a materials standpoint, you’ll need your cover boards and paper signatures to go inside.
The first thing I do is to cover my cover boards with the decorative paper. Then I stuck them on the boards, cutting the corners at a diagonal so that it’ll fold over nicely without too much bulk on the corners. Bookmaking Bookbinding Ethopian Coptic. DSC03839. Create a Stunning Combination Coptic Long-stitch Archival Book. This tutorial will show you how to make a good quality, archival book from beginning to end.
Book binding requires a lot of patience and practice, but the result is a beautiful work of art that you can give as a gift, or fill with your own drawings, notes and photos. Let's begin! Supplies 2 pieces of book board cut to 12 x 15cm, short grain (What is short grain?). Book cloth large enough to cover your book boards (Learn how to make your own here).30 pieces of acid-free drawing paper cut to 11.5 x 29cm, short grain.Piece of 6.5 x 11.5cm scrap paper.2 sheets of acid-free paper for the inside of the cover 11 x 14cm, short grain.At least 4 sheets of newsprint.pH-neutral glue.Clean brush for glue.Bone fold.Scissors.Awl.X-acto knife.Ruler.Set square or triangle tool.Cutting mat.Waxed linen thread.Book binding needle.Paper weight.
You can fill a sock with beans, rice, or bean-bag filler. Make sure your paper, book cloth and book board are acid-free if you want your book to be archival. Book Binding: Sewing the Coptic Stitch Style - How To Tuesday #1. Bookbinding 101 Sewing with Cloth Tapes. Japanese stab binding | becca making faces. The lotus blossom or lily-pad flower, whichever. 36 total holes, about an intermediate bind. Make sure that your holes along the top line are even! As always, if there is an error or if you have a question, leave a comment and I will do my best to answer. **click on an image to enlarge** hole pattern sewing pattern. Japanese Stab Binding : Tortoise Shell Pattern. Japanese Stab Binding Pattern: Tortoise Shell Binding Here is the tutorial for the Japanese Stab Binding technique called the Tortoise Shell pattern. [This pattern is slightly different in that the holes become groups of three, the hole at the center of each group is the pivotal hole (the holes farthest from the spine).
For each pivotal hole, you will sew into each of its neighbors, and then move to the next group.] Other Tutorials Available: Simple & BasicTraditional What you need 20-50 sheets of paper (cut to same size, cut to the size you want the book to be) Heavy weight paper (2 sheets) for front and back covers Pencil and ruler Leather hole punch or thick nail with a mallet or hammer Thread (linen thread, yarn. ribbon, embroidery thread, whichever material you prefer for the spine), Yarn darning or tapestry needle, scissors Directions: 1. 2. 3. 4. To bind: 5. 1 Cut a length of thread or ribbon about 6 1/2 times the height of the binding, and thread the needle. 6. 7. Pinterest / Home. Redfly Creations. Wood. I wanted more storage in our craft room/ office. I saw these shelves on ana-white.com she added to her daughter's closet and was excited to make my own. You adjust the dimensions according to your own doors. The best part is having the doors swing open with the hinges on each side.
This is the "before" shot. The closet was a sliding door, which slid into the corner. So the door to the room had to be closed and it was just a pain to get anything squished in the corner. What I hate about the sliding folding doors, is the fact they don't slide all the way, so it seems like you only ever get them open 75%. But now I have added storage on the back of the doors, and they open so I can access the rest of the closet a lot easier. I was really glad to have a place for wrapping paper, the huge roll of freezer paper, and a few thin bolts of interfacing that always seem to be in the way.
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