Bookbinding: A Traditional Technique

Paper crafts such as bookbinding are making a resurgence. Here are excerpts our DVD on bookbinding, produced for the home bookbinder.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Bookbinding
• signatures
• sewing
• binding
• tape
• bees
• wax
• pages
• folding

[jeremy16ph]

Very helpful specially determining the paper's grain, its a neat trick!

[OrdinaryPerson2]

Great - now I have to get it printed the right way up too.

[TheShadow1975100]

Very educational,thank you.

[JanetteHeffernan]

If you want to find the grain quickly without waiting for papers to dry just hold the paper in front of a steaming kettle, children do not do this, and watch the paper curl with the grain. You'll see immediately.

If you have more than a few sections it is easier and quicker to saw in the sewing holes using a vice and a wood saw. This is the way trad bookbinders do it but a few sections the shown way is good too.

Nice video.

[droid740]

this is a non destructive method. If you can spare it, just tear parallel to it's edge. It will either tear straight (along the grain) or skew sideways ( against the grain.) Works on paper towels too, so you can use half a sheet rather than whole.

[omaralhmad]

Thanks

[siasia2]

Helpful - I've taken several book classes and no one ever taught me how to determine the paper's grain.