Monday, 8 September 2014

Bookbinding

 I just saw this clip on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1VjQeGJmB4

It is very short, 1 minute 15 seconds.  The person don't say much.  But I do love the binding.  I just wish she would enter in the detail of the Coptic stitch,  I would like to know which eyelet she used, the same with the cord.  The cover is nice, even if she put some emphasis on it.  I was more interested in the binding than the cover.

I was in luck because I found two video on the Coptic stitch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue52htX3j0k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2FRKbQI2kY
It is always a good thing to have suggested videos on the right side.  I wouldn't not have found those two videos.

Now, I do have learned something new today.  I didn't knew about that stitch.  I ain't much familiar with needle work to begin with.
I even found how to make a book with sea shells:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgg0lQP8Ytw

It gives me a few ideas on the subject.  It been a while that I have bound a notebook.  I have done it in my book repair class a few years ago.  It was the first project we have done in class, I think.  It made us understood how a book was made.  I haven't given much thought since.  Seeing those videos give me the little push to try my hand at it again.  There are printed document that I have that would need some binding.  I could do it myself.  It would be a very good excuse to use them to practice the Coptic stitch at the same occasion.

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