Just a quick share today – a simple 4-hole Japanese stab binding that I spiffed up with the addition of a cross pattern on the spine. The covers are thick handmade paper embedded with bay leaves which works beautifully with the hand torn handmade paper pages inside. The handmade paper made the book block quite […]
Several months ago I purchased the classic bookbinding text, Japanese Bookbinding – Instructions from a Master Craftsman by Kijiro Ikegami. It’s been on my list for a while and I’m really glad I went ahead and bought it. It gives a great overview of the history of Japanese book making, the special tools used and […]
Summer’s in full swing in our house, so my blog posts will be less frequent for a while. But I’m still working on my 50 Book Project and today I’m sharing book 20. It’s another Japanese stab binding and it’s called Tortoise Shell. The soft cover is a piece of marbled paper that I made […]
Welcome to book number 19 in the 50 Book Project, a simple 4-hole Japanese Stab Binding. Over the next few weeks I’ll be exploring a range of different stab bindings, but I chose a simple one to start with so I could practise using a hand drill. I’ve used one a couple of times before […]
In the last post I promised that I would share some of the more advanced Japanese stab bindings. Once you’ve mastered the basic four-hole binding, you can bring it up a notch and try some more challenging techniques. I created three travel journals with postcards I picked up on my last visit to Stockholm. Each […]
Recently I’ve been creating books using the traditional binding technique – Japanese Stab Binding. And I’ve created a series of short posts about this lovely book form. About Stab Binding Stab binding is a traditional binding style that originated in Asia and is often called Japanese Stab Binding (JSB). It requires few tools and is […]