Bookbinding 101 - Water Lily Book Tutorial. I prepared a guest tutorial for the Sixth&Elm blog, showing how to make an Origami water lily.
Now I have a new tutorial ready showing how to make a book using those water lilies. Before starting this tutorial, you need to make three water lilies, all the same size, using the "Origami Water Lily Tutorial" first. You'll need some Origami paper to make the water lilies, or any other nice lightweight Japanese paper like the pretty pink paper used in this tutorial. So, go make 3 water lilies, then come back. A single water lily: When the three water lilies are finished, attach them to each other, back-to-back. The point where the three lilies meet is the spine of the book. Click for larger photos. Now the text block is finished and the covers can be made. Cut two covers, the same size and shape as the flattened text block. Once you have the decorative papers cut out, brush paste over the entire surface of the binder's board.
Cut notches in the paper at each corner. That's it, it's done. Make Your Own Fancy Photo Flip Book! Sure, you can press a button and take a mini motion picture.
But what about the well-loved, handheld, movie-in-your-pocket flip book? Our favorite form of animation, the flip book is the original, prehistoric movie. We’ve doodled thousands of stick figures in the corners of our notebooks. It’s time for photos. We’ve made digital flip books. Make Blank Books, Sketch Books or Repair Paperback Books with a Simple Japanese Bookbinding Technique. Make or repair books with this easy technique.
Adapted from an article in Boys' Life (October 1991) by Brook West. Does your "Boy Scout Handbook" look as though it has been read by a grizzly bear? Are pages falling out of your favorite novel? Has the cover come off of your copy of "The Hobbit? " You don't have to buy new copies. To rebind a paperback you will need an awl or thin wire brads, heavy thread (eight times as long as the book 's height), a needle, pencil, and ruler. Here's what you do: 1. 2. Making these holes should not damage the text in the book. 3. 4. Go around the back and back up through the starting hole, then down through the other middle hole. Around the back again, then up through the top hole. Around the back, then... ...around the top of the spine and up through the top hole again.
Around the back again and... ...around the bottom of the spine and back through the bottom hole. To finish, tie off the thread so the binding won't come loose. Back to Brook's bio back home.