2016-02-03
Bookbinding
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I watched a bunch of videos about bookbinding and decided to make a
book. It's a bit time consuming but quite simple, you only require
paper, cardboard, string, and cloth.
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* Cut your paper into bifolia (2× the intended page size).
* Collect your bifolia into sections. I used 4 bifolia per
section, yielding 8 leaves (a quaternion).
* Punch holes through the sections.
* Cut some strips of cloth, stitch sections together.
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* Clamp the book and glue the back.
* Glue the endpapers (not shown), glue the cloth strips on them. I
made my endpapers with suminagashi, ie. adding soapy ink and soap
water in turn carefully on a tray of water, then laying a piece of
paper on it.
* Trim the edges with a guillotine or a crafts knife (I skipped
this step with this book).
* Form the book so that the back has a slight curve. Clamp down,
and gently hammer the back. This will make it easier to lie the
book flat and accommodates for the thickness of the covers.
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* Make and attach headbands (the red things). There are fancy ways
of doing this, but I just rolled a piece of cloth, glued it to
shape, and coloured it with a red marker.
* Cut the covers and the cover cloth. Use the book itself as a
measure.
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* Glue the cardboard to the cloth, glue a strip of paper on the
inside of the back for reinforcement
* Glue the endpapers to the covers. Clamp down
* Enjoy your book! One of the more challenging things about the
whole thing is actually using the book for anything...
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