bookbinding
Let me tell why you are here. You’re here because you want to know something. What you want to know, you can’t explain. But you can feel the desire for knowledge. It’s this feeling that brought you here.
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introduction During the process of binding through this booklet, you might get dirty, covered in ink or other substances. You may be asked to question yourself and equally the process. You may strive for perfection or for incompleteness.
bookbinding
You may begin to see the creative side of your daily life.
basic terminology Bookbinding is the process of physically assembling a book from an ordered stack of paper sheets that are folded together into sections or sometimes left as a stack of individual sheets.
bookbinding
The stack is bound together along one edge by either sewing with thread through the folds or by a layer of flexible adhesive.
bookbinding
bookbinding
curious fact Before the computer age, the bookbinding trade involved two divisions: stationary and letterpress binding. Stationery binding, or vellum binding; deals with making new books to be written into and intended for handwritten entries such as accounting ledgers, note books and so on.
bookbinding
Letterpress binding deals with making new books intended to be read from and includes library binding, fine binding, edition binding, and publisher’s bindings.
materials
bone folder
stack of paper
sewing thred and bookbinding needle
ruler and scissors
bookbinding awl
step one
preparation: start by using your bone folder, fold each of the your pages in half and nest them together.
step two
mark making: using your ruler and a pencil, mark three sewing points; start by having the centre of the spine as your first point; measure then the next points by measuring the centre from your first point to each corner of the booklet.
step three piercing: using your awl, pierce the sewing points.
step four
threading: from the inside thread your needle; do not tie a knot just yet! leave a little thread tail of about 2 cm.
step five
binding: to bind pull your needle to the third point from the outside going to the inside; go the second point from the inside to the outside, go then back to the starting point sewing from the outside to the inside.
step six
finalising: tie a knot with the tail you left at the beginning of the binding process; your book is now bound.
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