Making books with everyday materials! (original) (raw)
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
6:16 pm
[bobbieozella]
Anyone willing to mentor? I'm a high school student, and we have a little number called "The Senior Project" that I'm working on this semester. We have to learn how to do something that is a stretch for us, and since I'm usually all in the fabric department, I decided to try my hand at bookbinding.
WHAT I REALLY NEED :
Is there anyone willing to be my mentor? I live in Marietta and you can contact me at taciturndoll@yahoo.com if you're interested.
Or if you have anyone in mind that would be of help to me, please let me know!!
Thank you!!
♥
(if this is illegal, delete away. I apologize.)
Sunday, February 25th, 2007
9:19 am
[letterpressed]
Shiny for the magpies Yesterday I spent the whole day in my studio it was a glorious and happy thing. I spent the day making little notebooks I call jotters. They have either 40 or 60 pages depending on the paper and the cover. I stitch them on my sewing machine, which the sewing machine doesn't like very much but since the only other thing I use it for is hemming pants it can get over it.
These 3 books are made from a sheet of decorative and textured paper laminated to a sheet of cardstock. I let it dry for a few days under weights and then stacked 15 sheets of southworth ivory granite paper, and ran the whole stack through my sewing machine with ecru thread.
I modeled these after the Moleskine Cahiers, minus the perforations and pocket in the back. They each have 60 pages of 24lb paper. Acid free covers and paper. I have them up on my etsy page here.
Sunday, February 4th, 2007
9:13 pm
[letterpressed]
Thursday, January 18th, 2007
9:33 pm
[letterpressed]
Fabriano HEdgie X-posted sorry I dipped into my stash of Fabriano the other night, tore down a sheet into hedgehog sized sheets, folded them and got them ready. 1 sheet makes 1 hedgehog. Pretty sweet, considering I bought a fat stack of Fabriano Artistico quite some time ago and have used some of it for books but mostly its just sat there waiting. So it was nice to tear it down into pages. It made quite a sweet little hedgehog too. I also dipped intot he unknown watercolor paper and tore that down as well, pictures of that will follow in a bit. But I love the torn edges on the hand torn sheets.( PIctures after the cutCollapse )
Sunday, January 14th, 2007
8:58 am
[letterpressed]
Monday, June 12th, 2006
2:35 pm
[sarah_eilonwy]
Hi, I want to try to learn some bookbinding techniques over the summer and this community looked like a great resource so I joined. I have a few questions...
I am collecting church bullitens (roughly 7x6 inches, and folded in half.) I also have some coloring sheets and worksheets that are on 8.5x11 inch paper. I know in traditional bookbinding, you fold the paper and create signatures, but what would be the best way to bind things like these? What tools do I need? Do you use any type of thread other than "bookbinders thread" or is that the best kind?
Also, I have some books that are in need of both minor (and major) repair. Does anyone know anything about book repair/would that be an acceptable subject to post/ask questions about? Do you know of any communities specifically for book repair?
Thanks in advance!
(cross posted to handmadebooks)
Current Mood: 
excited
Wednesday, May 10th, 2006
4:44 pm
[almond_willow]
Sunday, December 4th, 2005
6:02 pm
[letterpressed]
New to me book style I’ve been messing around with a couple of new book styles. I was able to snag several sheets of this mid-weight chipboard/fiberboard that a local bakery uses to protect delicate cookies. The cookies are wrapped so there are no grease spots on the card; it looks like a less stiff davey board. I immediately thought of how cool it would be to make pages of a book with it, then I thought how cool would it be to make covers out of it with some leather to reinforce the spine! So here are my first 3 trials:
What I’ve done is reinforce the spine with leather from my scrap heap. I glue it on with PVA and it seems to work well. I added an envelope in the back and elastic. I like how they look and the size. Almost everything in them is recycled. The paper inside is from my word the regional office changed some of the branding and because the paper had words they were chucking it. I trimmed it so the words weren’t visible and ended up with a stack of really nice paper. They have 200 pages each and are sewn with hemp. Let me know what you think of my recycling efforts.
Sunday, September 25th, 2005
11:50 pm
[letterpressed]
Shaving Leather with a paint scraper Here’s my first post!
It’s rather long and has 9 pics, so, I’ll put most of that behind a cut.
The pics will show you how to shave, pare, or skive leather with a paint scraper. I use a Red Devil paint scraper with a metal body and a slide out mechanism for the razor blade. I get my razor blade from Home Depot by the 100 count box. It’s cheaper that way and the blades are less flexible than the single edge blades you can get at the drug store. You’ll need a paint scraper and something smooth to work on- I used a plexi sheet. Glass would work best, as I scratched and gouged my plexi. DON’T use your expensive self-healing cutting mat… Bad things happened to mine.( Read more...Collapse )