Bookbinding - day 1
Today we have been mostly learning how to bind books.
PERFECT BINDING
Coptic binding - when you have more than two signatures
Clamped and glued
My own handmade sketchbook... The ones above were done with cheap paper just to practice making them. I then made up a new coptic bound book out of nice off-white thick cartridge paper.
All the glued stuff is drying and tomorrow we will be doing covers for them! I'm not going to attempt to describe the processes as I find it hard to do it without showing people, live. Look round the internet of you're really interested - or better still, borrow a bookbinding book from the library...
3 comments:
You have such a LOVELY blog!!! :)
Thank you for sharing yet another interesting class! I love that you include so many step-by-step photos. I really enjoyed your printmaking post as well, by the way.
There is something about a wad of plain paper that looks so appealing...promising...Gorgeous!
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