Here’s the final book in my 50 Book Project and it’s one of my new favorites, Secret Belgian Binding. My friend Gerry showed me how to make this several months ago and it’s one that I’ll be adding to my repertoire. For the covers I used a navy book cloth and a marbled paper created […]
You’ll find book number 49, Woven Codex, in Alisa Golden’s phenomenal book Making Handmade Books: 100+ Bindings, Structures & Forms. This has been a real companion to me on this 50 Book Project journey and I highly recommend it. I’ll write a blog post later this month detailing all the books I’ve found helpful during […]
We’re approaching the end of my 50 Book Project, which started in January 2017 and over the past 2 years I’ve come to really love all the different accordion book structures. The Flutter Book is number 48 and is among my favorites. Single folded signatures are arranged in the desired order and their fore-edges are […]
I chose a fun design for book number 47 in my 50 Book Project – an Envelope Book. I found the instructions on Monica Lee’s blog, Artful ReCrafter. I think it’s a great little structure to use up paste papers and gelli prints because we all have piles of those, right? This started life as […]
Book number 46 is a concertina binding and it’s a great choice for a travel journal because the spine expands if you add extra items to the pages, such as photos, tickets etc. The concertina structure is achieved by creating a narrow accordion and then attaching signatures to either the valley or peak folds using […]
This is a simple but effective binding called Album Accordion from Kojiro Ikegami’s Japanese Bookbinding: Instructions From A Master Craftsman. If you’re interested in the classic Japanese bindings, this is the best resource and worth the investment. This is book number 45 in my 50 Book Challenge. Its construction is similar to a Flutter Book […]
I’m making progress on my 50 Book Project – here’s book number 44 – the end is in sight…. This is Waterfall stitch from the second volume Keith Smith’s Non-Adhesive Bindings. It’s a two signature binding that’s sewn through a single row of stitching holes. The book board is covered with handmade paper embedded with […]
This Blanket Stitch binding is from Keith Smith’s first volume of Book of Non-Adhesive Bindings. I love the pattern it creates and it’s very relaxing to stitch. It’s unusual because each horizontal row of stitching across the spine is completed independently. There are several things about this binding that I don’t like: it’s very loose […]
I’ve been making leaf prints with my gelatin (Gelli) plates to celebrate all the beautiful Fall colors I see around me in New England. Here’s a structure I made called Winged Book by Alisa Golden to showcase some of those prints. I really like this binding because I love any variation on an accordion book. […]
I’m making progress with my 50 Book Project and I will be finished by the end of the year – it only took me 2 years longer than planned 😐 Here’s book number 41, a 2-signature binding with a pattern called Carets. It’s another stitch from Keith Smith’s book Non-Adhesive Binding Volume 2. I made […]