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2016-02-03 |
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Bookbinding |
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I watched a bunch of videos about bookbinding and decided to make a |
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book. It's a bit time consuming but quite simple, you only require |
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paper, cardboard, string, and cloth. |
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* Cut your paper into bifolia (2× the intended page size). |
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* Collect your bifolia into sections. I used 4 bifolia per |
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section, yielding 8 leaves (a quaternion). |
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* Punch holes through the sections. |
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* Cut some strips of cloth, stitch sections together. |
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* Clamp the book and glue the back. |
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* Glue the endpapers (not shown), glue the cloth strips on them. I |
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made my endpapers with suminagashi, ie. adding soapy ink and soap |
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water in turn carefully on a tray of water, then laying a piece of |
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paper on it. |
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* Trim the edges with a guillotine or a crafts knife (I skipped |
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this step with this book). |
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* Form the book so that the back has a slight curve. Clamp down, |
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and gently hammer the back. This will make it easier to lie the |
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book flat and accommodates for the thickness of the covers. |
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* Make and attach headbands (the red things). There are fancy ways |
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of doing this, but I just rolled a piece of cloth, glued it to |
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shape, and coloured it with a red marker. |
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* Cut the covers and the cover cloth. Use the book itself as a |
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measure. |
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* Glue the cardboard to the cloth, glue a strip of paper on the |
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inside of the back for reinforcement |
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* Glue the endpapers to the covers. Clamp down |
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* Enjoy your book! One of the more challenging things about the |
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whole thing is actually using the book for anything... |
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