I've made 24 notebooks in the past couple of days. All hands sewn and cut. I think I'm a bit obsessed 😅

first try at a sewn board binding! worked pretty well despite a few small mistakes. the decorative paper was from hollanders and I printed the lined paper

Still getting my technique right, but I'm having a ton of fun with this.

This my first timy fully functional bookbinding experience. I used coptic stitch binding.

Loving this. Finally a use for this fabric! I was really concerned the pattern would be slanted after ironing on the heatbond. I do wish i steam ironed it for longer the back side has a faint wrinkle

Redesigned & Remade My Monsters of Verity Slipcases 🖤

Redesigning and remaking my slipcases for the gorgeous Monsters of Verity special edition books by V. E. Schwab (by Illumicrate).

The original cases were some of the first I ever made, I was super proud of them and they’ve held up really well over the years! But I thought it was finally time to give them a redesign :)

I have a pdf for a tabletop RPG sourcebook and I’d love to print it out, but I really don’t like the bulkiness of binders. I looked up book binding and oh boy it’s apparently a lot more complicated than just glueing!

I’m just going to use regular printer paper for each double sided page (no folding, so I think the grain should be fine based on what I read). Is it reasonable to also have the front and back covers be printed separately in card stock and to just hold it together with glue and a strip of book cloth at the spine? Or do I need to learn how to print them on a large piece of paper and cut it to size?

Any tips would be much appreciated! I hardly have spare money at the moment so I really don’t want to spend much. I want it to be able to hold up under a reasonable amount of use and I’m willing to learn any techniques as I find this interesting and I love crafts.

Hi! I'm attempting to print and bind a book at home that has illustrations that go to the edges of the sheets. My printer leaves a significant white border around the images as it cannot print to the edge of a letter size sheet. I'll have to trim the white off, but am unsure whether that should be done prior to sewing and then again after, or if I should wait until after sewing the text block. If it's super inconvenient to do, I'd want to know prior to finishing the typeset so I can account for it avoid those borders :)

I recently got into book binding and I made a book I'm quite proud of but I'd like to improve for my next book. I'd like to focus on finding the way to cover up the gap you can see in the picture. Any tips that people can give would be greatly appreciated! :)

Still pretty new to book binding! I'd like to emboss the cover of my next project with the title and author. I'm working with 3x thick chipboard and will either use art paper or bookcloth on the cover. If I hammered the lettering in using metal stamps and a mallet (after applying the book cloth/paper) would this be effective?

Hello folks!

My girlfriend is halfway through a (rather amazing) memory scrapbook - content wise, that is, so it will need to pack maybe about the same amount more.

Is there a way to prevent the book from separating? Maybe taking out a few sheets of papers or attaching something to the cardboard?

I appreciate any help!

The Larp I go to wants to create a book of lore. I know basic bookbinding and leatherworking bit I want to make something everyone can add to.

I thought about a custom case that disguises a 3 ring binder, but I feel like that would still break the immersion. Any ideas?

So I have a bit of a unique concept that I'm working on for my wife and I'd love to get some advice!

The plan is to take a 2inch D-Ring binder, strip out the ring mechanism, and then craft a cookbook around the mechanism with a design similar to the attached image.

Currently I have the following supplies saved online, but before I buy them I'd like to know what important things I'm missing (because I'm sure there's a lot lol):

* Waxed thread

* Italian Letterpress (for the endpaper)

* Seigel River Grain Goat Leather (Purple)

* A natural 6" Tapered Bone Folder

* 8 sheets of .100 Eska Board

* Jade 403 PVA Glue

I don't have much in the way of supplies for leatherwork, but I do have a wide variety of sewing supplies. I have no foundational knowledge on any of this outside of the research I've done so I'd love some advice on additional supplies I'd need or tips on how to best achieve this!

Thanks to everyone in advance!

Hi Everyone, we’re having a party at the Center for the Book Arts Detroit ahead of the Detroit Art Book Fair. If you’re interested in visiting the shop and seeing what we’re up to, or meeting some folk who have been making books, printing, and publishing, feel free to come by. We’ll be here from 6–9pm, and there will be drinks and food as well. 

Hey Everyone!

Recently saw Dennis from Four Keys Book Arts' videos on overcasting and had a used library copy of a book that I love and had to attempt! Incorporating sewing into a rebind has been something I've been really interested in doing, especially since I'm not a huge fan of perfect bound hardcover in general, so having this be mostly a success is really exciting! It also opens a lot of avenues for making some of my favorite books more my own! I found that after rounding, backing, and casing in, that the spine doesn't throw up much at all, but I'm not sure if that is a problem with the size of the book or what. It feels sturdy in any case!

I was also excited to use this as a project to test some multi media out including lino stamps and embossing powder, which I definitely still have not mastered but still had a ton of fun! (included photo has some other stamps for a few mtg deck boxes I made recently, which I may make a post about later :l)

If you have any questions about my process, I'd love to chat :)

Edit: gotta love a typo lol. Title should be "Leena Krohn"

How to make a book cloth in case if I don't have heat n bond thing?

I'm going to make a cover for a book, but I can't find special cloth for book binding. That's why i bought a cloth and want to use it.

Need suggestions and advices

I hope this isn't off-topic...

I want to make a "turkish map fold book" out of folded origami paper (80g/m²) glued to a body out of 130g/m² paper.

The photo shows my prototype.

I've put this together with a glue stick, but that is imprecise to apply, and prone to leaving lumps behind the thin origami paper.

What type of glue would you suggest?

Hi all!
I'm rebinding paperbacks to hardcovers and have been battling on which technique to use
I have books that are 3/4" wide spines, and books that are 3" wide all from the same series sometimes, and I would like to create a universal way for me to bind them so that the feel and looks match from one to the next. Rigid spines seem to be what almost everyone uses on Instagram regardless of the book width, but i read that anything larger than 3/4" should be made with flexible spine. If are made for a 'private library' where the books will not be in constant use, what would you say the best way to go is? So far I've tried rigid (nicer look) and oxford hollow (yes, on flat paperbacks) and the hollow feels better in the hand, but does not look as crisp and is a bit harder to case in well (personally).

I think they turned out okay!

I think I should have let ACOTAR stay in the press for another day or two. There’s a little warping on the pages but nothing major.

I’m not great at foiling, some of my letters are a little messed up.

Overall I’m pretty happy!!

This is a birthday gift for my father, just finished last night.

The raw text was sourced from Project Gutenberg, formatted and typeset with MS Word; printed on short-grain legal-sized paper and six folio sewn-in signatures; spine was rounded but not backed; the bookcloth, binder’s board, endpapers all sourced from Talas. The title and images were added with heat transfer vinyl cut from a Cricut. The ribbon purchased from Michael’s.

I've dabbled a bit with journals but really wanted to do an actual book. Mistakes were made lol it's not perfect. But I formatted it, printed it, made the text block, and rounded the spine, made the book cloth, and designed the cover. For a self taught beginner who started just a month ago, I'm incredibly proud of it.

I will say that if there's a Hell - I'm certain its simply a room with a cricut and HTV and you're forced to make book covers all day.