Anyway, I bought a scrap bag of leather at the craft store awhile back, and have been wanting to make a little journal with it for some time now.
Well, last night was my chance. My grandpa gave me an old guillotine paper cutter, so naturally I had to test it out immediately. I cut the paper to 5 1/2" by 4 1/4" pieces. I folded the pieces in half so that they measured 2 3/4" by 4 1/2". I made 5 signatures, with 8 pieces in each, for a total of 40 pages. I measured around the signatures and cut a piece of leather to match. I also cut 4 slits on the spine to weave the thread through. I poked holes in 4 different places in my signatures to match up with the slits in the leather, and sewed all of the signatures into place.
To find out more information on how to do this, Google sewing spine of book, binding books, hand binding... etc. I am a severe amateur at this, but would love to learn more. Like I need to start another craft! Right????
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Your book looks great! I can't believe this is your first attempt at bookbinding. My first few attempts were pretty...ummm...interesting. Very nice job!
ReplyDeleteYou did a really lovely job on this. I don't know a lot about binding books either but I think yours turned out really well.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the compliments! The picture doesn't do all of it's imperfections justice. See, sometimes it pays to not be a good photographer! =)
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