Handbound books

I've been calling my tutorials "bookbinding 101" so I really should have done this particular tutorial first. I spend a substantial amount of time worrying about paper grain direction when I'm making my books. So, as far as I know, all machine-made papers have a grain direction. This applies to standard printer paper, cardstock, drawing paper, watercolour paper, etc, as well as binder's board or other boards. Basically every paper material that we use for making books – except handmade…

Bobbin This is a 3-section binding technique that Smith calls bobbin because it picks up a thread from underneath like a sewing machine stitch. So I used orange thread on the inside to create those little dots of colour on the spine, picking up on the orange in the cover paper, which is some of my own shibori paper. (If you are ever flipping through Smith's book looking for something quick and simple, don't pick this one.)

Book binding - hard cover DIY

a chic + easy diy.

I was inspired by japanese bookbinding at first, finding all those creative stitched boarders on ‘Pinterest’. I not sure if this style will allow further stitching to be …

I just finished a little Christmas bookbinding project where I bound together some previous year's Christmas cards. I don't get very uptight about saving cards, but I also don't like to throw them away. Sometimes I will cut them up to make gift tags but there are always some with letters written inside or other reasons why I want to keep them. So I decided to make a book, at least it will be easier to keep them in this format! They are just sewn onto the ribbons with a layer of PVA on the…

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Last week I showed you what was on the work bench... the junk mail, remember? Voila, very cool journals. The covers are, obviously, covered with junk mail and other previously-used envelopes. The pages are mostly blank paper (recycled paper, of course), with a few previously used business envelopes mixed in to keep it internesting. Each one also has an unused reply enveloped in the middle of the last section - those envelopes that come inside other envelopes so that we can easily mail our…

Little Forest on Instagram: "TUTORIAL!!! I made this video to show you how I sewn this book. It’s coptic stictches combined with double French link stitches in 2 colors of thread. I sew French link 2 times in each signatures. Hope you can figure it out. Thank you for watching and enjoy binding your book . . #notebookbinding #bookbinding #handmade #diy #bookbinder #handicraft #copticbinding #papercraft #sketchbook #handbound #crafts #handboundbook #bookbinding #etsyvancouver…