I booked a session for bookbinding with Sarah down in Rossington street a few weeks ago for yesterday, (Friday 8th) as I was really interested in actually creating a proper book for once.
Total time taken: 3 hours
Cost of making the book would be £1 normally.
Materials are rather cheap, fabric for the wrap around the most expensive.
Apologies for the rotated images.
First of all we started by creasing 4/3 pages together to create the first set of pages.
We had to create 4 for this workshop however for the book we were gonna be creating, hopefully I'll be able to create a thicker book when it comes to making mine.
We marked the inside of book with a pencil then poked the inner marks with the stabber tool in the picture above.
We then had to sow through the middle loops only...
Because then we later connected them though the bottoms of each, this tied them all together rather nicely.
This was then put in the wooden clamp, and we rubbed glue along the spine of the book to stick it all together.
I choose red and blue paper to have as insert pages in my book, just as a test I wanted to see how they looked.
These we then stuck in leaving a very tiny gap on the end so that it doesn't go near the spine, this is for later when the hardback is applied.
Then with a box cutter we had to cut through all the layers of the paper to cut it, using a set square to measure and mark out. However this didn't go too successfully so I had to have Sarah cut it down in the cutter which was also unsuccessful for a few cuts..
So then it was all nice and neat.
We then had to measure out the size of the board, and the spine, line them up then masking tape them together. Fiddly done but it works, this had to be cut down with the box cutter again.
I asked Sarah to see what other types of Buckram there was available, although I can't remember the types there is a large range and a lot of colours to choose from.
The one above was my favourite, It was really soft fabric and It just felt amazing, It's really easy to screen print, the only downside is to it, is that it's really susceptible to getting marks on it from glue and such so you just have to be incredibly careful. I believe it was also the most expensive one too.
Applying the buckram is fairly easy, apart from I goofed it up, you're supposed to leave a slight gap on the corners, and a rulers width on the sides. I cut down to the corners edge leaving no room for me to fold it in.
This was then to be stuck into the hardback, but I didn't really want to so I can use the inner book as reference later one.
Pre-made Examples:
Some sort of open spine book?
This was a Mount board type of book, It felt like a perfect book made for children, even more so if the corners of it was rounded!
This was like a average book, more like the book above with the rounded corners.
A variety of stab-bound patterns that had been pre-made. Although these were all really nice they seem a bit too arts & craft.
Bolt spine, maybe too industrial.
A Moleskine type book you can create which was really nice, would be a good zine type book.
And finally a perfect bound bound book.
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