Coptic Binding on Boards

People have asked how to sew a coptic binding using boards or hard covers. This demonstration illustrates how to sew one using only two signatures. You may use as many as you like. For more examples visit http://jimescalante.net/teach

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Howto & Style

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• bookbinding
• book
• arts
• books
• coptic
• binding
• sewing

[pjgood672]

Thanks for your wonderful teaching videos. I have viewed several showing the coptic binding techniques. I recently made six journals to be sold at our school's auction. Everyone marveled at the binding and it is now my favorite of all binding techniques I have learned.

[jaescala]

@pjgood672

I am so happy to hear that you are making books. Thanks for the nice comment. You can find lots of good information about binding on YouTube. Have fun.

Jim

[Zitsmoon]

thank you for this tutorial, I was looking everywhere how to do it and finally found this video wich is very clear even for me because I don't speak english very well, so thanks again.

[jaescala]

Gracias for el comentario. Hace muchos años vive en Monterrey, N.L.

Jim

[jaescala]

@Zitsmoon I am so happy to hear that you are making books. Thanks for the nice comment. You can find lots of good information about binding on YouTube. Have fun.

Jim

[MrBjaelde]

Thank you for a very instructive demo. I made a book while watching.

[jaescala]

That is great! I am happy it was helpful.

[DaphneSmall]

This is amazing....I just finished decorating covers from corrugated cardboard, and was looking for a way to bind them into a book, hopefully using the coptic stitch to open flat, and I found your video. Thanks so so much! Perfect!

[abchobbyit]

Thank you for this video!! It's very helpful!

[eastendcrafter19]

Thank you. This was well done and very easy to follow.

[TheMissCassia]

Thanks for posting this - it's so clear that I've been able to bind my book very quickly without making a mistake (a very rare thing for me!)

[clipside2]

this is absoutely brilliant, thank you so much for taking the time to make it. I really appreciate the time you've spent to ensuring it's fully understandable with the cuts to the inside of the signatures, etc as you go. Extremely helpful <3

PS. Will you marry me :) ♫♫ i'll bind the guest book..♫♫........... :-O xx

[lilith2381]

Observando el cosido, sabía que tenía que ser algo parecido a enlazar los diferentes cuadernillos con nudos de cadeneta, pero ahora sí que lo entendí. Muchas muchas gracias...

[lilith2381]

¡Aún más claro! Muchísimas gracias de nuevo, de todo corazón.

[Winksartist]

Excellent and very clear and easy to understand, thank you

[saviourslilgal]

great video- it's like having a teacher sit right infront of you! this is going to be so helpful to a little bookbinding project that I want to do.