Book binding stitches

The coptic stitch bookbinding method is another way to bind your book with a spine that opens up completely, so you can lay your book flat. Sometimes it’s also called chain stitch in bookbinding, but more often it’s called coptic stitch binding. I think it’s a great method for when you have book covers that […]

At the end of my last post, I had six signatures and two covers, ready for poking holes and binding. Vocab recap! (words I learned doing this) folio - a sheet folded in half to form two sheets for the book signature - a nested group of folios that are later bound together to form the book

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I have been wanting to learn some new book structures recently. I feel that I have become very reliant on the Secret Belgian Binding techni...

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In this video tutorial you can learn how to do a 4-hole Japanese binding. This is the basic traditional method of Japanese bookbinding ( or stab binding ). Stab bindings allow you to make books that are not possible with other bindings. For instance, in a pamphlet-stitch book, each leaf, or page, cannot have a different color. But in a stab-bound book , you can use scraps of different weights, textures and colors as long as they are the same size or can be cut to the same size. This is the…

Amy Tan's new Signature Series book is a smashing success! Every page is eye candy and filled with inspiration from corner to corner. I...

Stitches and Sewings for Bookbinding Structures: http://www.guildofbookworkers.org/resources/documents/sewings.pdf