Posts Tagged ‘Binding’

One very fun project I did in my Experimental Bookmaking class required us to bind a book using the “buttonhole stitch” AND create a box to house the book. I wanted to recycle some items I had laying around, and since the assignment occurred around the same time as my Monday Night BINGO phase, I [...]

Last Thursday, I showed you my first attempt at Japanese stab-binding. Once I had practiced the technique, I was ready to try something a little riskier in terms of end-use. This was for a class project: a “correspondence book,” if you will. My professor introduced us to the Griffin and Sabine trilogy–a brilliantly written and [...]

One simple (yet beautiful) binding method is the 4-hole Japanese stab-binding. There are several variations, and for this project, I chose the Hemp-leaf method, which includes extra sewing stations part-way between the 4 main stations.

For the thread, I used a silver .25″ ribbon. I added star-shaped eyelets to the sewing stations to give the holes [...]

It’s rare that I usually just get to play around with materials these days, as I am most often creating for a specific client, or at least, a specific purpose. School was a great place to explore crazy ideas and materials, and I have plans to bring some of that experimental spirit back to my [...]

From the looks of the exterior and the immediate inside of the cover, this book may not appear to be anything extraordinarily special. Sure, the swirly fabric is fun and all, but it just doesn’t seem like it would be that hard to put together…right? Wrong.

Though there are a small number of binding stations, this [...]

My friend’s father had plans to take a European cruise around Christmastime. He wanted to journal about the cultures, foods, sights, and landmarks he encountered while on his journey, so she hired me to make him a custom journal.
I wanted to create something with a Old World feel, something reminiscent of the days when traders, [...]