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