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Anonymous03/30/23, 20:11No.627042Bookbinding
Do you guys only fold paper cranes and glue Warhammer figures? I've never seen a bookbinding thread here.
Printed and bound House of Leaves. Split it into 2 volumes because I was afraid to work with so many pages at once. Covered with paper-backed vinyl (black) and linen fabric (red), which will probably collect a ton of dust pretty soon.
Couldn't decide how to put the titles on. Should have made a debossed rectangle with a paper label glued inside. But I hoped that hot ink transfer would work. So I made the covers first, then printed the title on ink transfer paper, and found out that pressing a hot iron to the cloth-covered board warps the board due to heat expansion. Tried on small swatches first (picrel). This method won't work.
As I understand it, my current options to put the title are limited to
>linocut transfer
>screening (sponging the ink through a trafaret)
>just print a paper label and glue it on top
Don't have any hot stamping tools to work with foil, nor the desire to purchase these materials.
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Anon03/30/23, 20:29No.627043
Made this maze design for volume numbers, but was too retarded to figure out how to put it on the covers
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Anon03/30/23, 20:33No.627044
Anyway, the books are done. Endpapers look like this.
Post some cool stuff I guess
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Anon03/30/23, 23:02No.627045
this shits cool as fuck
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Anon04/08/23, 17:27No.627047
>Printed
What's your printing setup? What would you recommend for a printing setup?
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Anon04/09/23, 09:17No.627048
You may as well include creating faux books from recycled cardboard .Which I did start a thread and no one saw it cause I guess it's girly crafts .
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Anon04/10/23, 03:45No.627049
Sketchbook I bound during covid lockdown. Right after I finished this I found a youtube channel called DAS bookbinding and I wished I found him earlier, his videos are very informative.
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Anon04/10/23, 03:49No.627050
How did you trim your text block? I used just a box citter and ruler but I lost it halfaay through and the pages ended up getting jagged.
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Anon04/10/23, 11:59No.627051
fucking awesome man, i love bookbinding. i dont do it myself but as a lover of literature and papercraft its so cool to see. great book bte
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Anon04/10/23, 23:37No.627052
Cool stuff ITT. I did one notebook ages ago with a soft cover but it was very rudimentary. I sort of want to get into it again but materials/tools are pretty pricey. If I could become at leather working and gilding I might just try to something like this full time though.
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Anon04/11/23, 14:06No.627053
is there a reference for the names of different kinds of paper? there is a semiglossy magazine paper with a very light texture that smells nice that I want to get for a notebook
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Anon04/13/23, 01:56No.627054
I collect and repair old books. Vellum is my favorite, it's like the face of an animal skin drum.
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Anon07/01/23, 06:25No.627061
Bump, is there a good non-mechanical alternative to Smyth binding? I want to produce strong, good-looking books but without buying a $12,000 machine.
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Anon09/26/23, 01:27No.627065
I finished the binding of my signatures, first time doing it for reals, I practiced with some garbage paper before but I intend this to be a real book.Not sure how I feel about it tho...Not sure if it should be able to deform this much, I feel like I can't quite figure out how to make tight stiches.
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Anon11/15/23, 21:58No.627072
I have never been to this forum. I have a bookstore though that I just started and I come to this fucking forum and this is the first post presented to me. I've never even folded a piece of paper before.
Pretty nice.
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Anon11/16/23, 04:02No.627073
I've ordered some old Japanese stuff wanting to unbind and scan them. The one issue I've gotten so far has both book paper and glossy magazine paper bound in a thick spine. Hopefully I don't fuck it up... it seems hot air and gently pulling is the only reliable method?
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Anon01/23/24, 11:25No.627076
here's a japanese stab bound journal i made as a gift, the stitching got a little fucked up at the top. book binding is the shit
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Anon02/15/24, 04:15No.627079
Got to join in a book binding workshop yesterday at the local library. Been wanting to make physical copies of roleplays and TTRPG sessions I've done over the years like the goober I am, plus I do a lot of crafts with my clients that adding this to my toolkit will be great. The main thing is going to be learning to adapt it to various age groups and mobility levels - majority of the crafting groups are for helping build up or maintain motor skills, so getting them to try and wrangle sewing signatures together isn't going to fly for a lot of them lol.Pick up some stuff today, workshop had wood cradles for $10, just going to muck around with little dinky practice runs while saving up money for a home printer and figuring out how to format things for printing. Shit's exciting.
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Anon03/13/24, 17:56No.627081
Pretty based. How much does this hobby cost to start?You guys are alright here. I am from /pol/ due to a mistyped web link.
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Anon05/03/24, 01:58No.627084
Where does everyone get their supplies and tools here? For tools, I usually go for Talas but they're pretty expensive.
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Anon06/04/24, 20:18No.627086
Is there any way to make these pieces without soldering? I just want to make a 360 sketchbook and the ones sold are too small
Sorry for asking here but I didn't wanna risk killing another thread
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Anon06/18/24, 16:33No.627089
I just do classic Japanese bookbinding whenever I want a sketchbook
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Anon11/13/24, 00:04No.627092
What suppliers do you guys use? I'm having a hard time finding non A4 or US sized paper.
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Anon04/30/25, 14:14No.627569
Well screw me for not paying attention before and knowing this thread was here. Of course it would be. I've picked up bookbinding for the past year and tried a bunch of stuff already.
Anyway, I'm thinking of starting my project of a Jurassic Park rebind and I came up with this kind of cover. I'd fit in the amber which I bought for it.
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Anon04/30/25, 23:46No.627570
i thought i’d try my hand at this so i bound some junk mail into a book. it was fun
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Anon10/09/25, 12:50No.628399
...and the project I finished two days ago, a fake Mr Men/Little Miss book. I wish I knew you shouldn't bend 350g paper at a right angle before I tore the cover, but here I am, my kid will probably not notice anyway.
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Anon10/13/25, 19:11No.628416
I bound a book of my printmaking in college. It was satisfying and rewarding