Show threadYirggzmb14h ago

The finished gifts. Next year remind me that if I decide to make stuff I shouldn't try to do it all in a week...lol

#knitting #sewing #bookbinding

BOOKFORGE1d ago

I need your help. Yes, yours! You decide which world we open: geometry, void, horizon, silence, or flesh.

I have five concepts I've been considering for a design binding of The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft Design Binding.

Vote in the poll. The winning design will become the next BOOKFORGE binding, documented step by step on our Patreon page!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/complete-fiction-140672850

#designbinding #bookbinding #bookarts #bookart #lovecraft #art #artist #poll #vote

Arusha de Rheydt2d ago
My first open spine bind.
This kettlestich ist so great for notebooks and sketchbooks because it opens completely flat.

Also my first attempt at the zig-zag front. Not bad but I guess it works better with thicker paper. This one's 80gsm (with self printed dots).

#bookbinding #bookbinders #buchbinden #buchbinder #artistsOnPixelfed #artistsOnMastodon #art #artist #sketchbook #notebook #craft #handmade
Dennis Wilkinson3d ago

Recently-completed project: a hand-bound copy of Burroughs' "The Land That Time Forgot". I did everything from typesetting on up to the binding and casing, including hand-sewing the endbands and gilding the top edge. One or two small errors, but it was a learning exercise to begin with.

#photography #bookbinding #projects

Ann-Mi4d ago
I made 3 of my nephews one #junkJournal each, made from a Lego #Batman box, paper bags, magazine pages, and other random scraps of paper including gelli print experiments.
I hope they will use them. I'll try to explain to them they can do what they want: glue in pictures, stickers, labels, draw, write... and that if they don't like something in it they can cover it or take it out.
They are bound with a simple pamphlet stitch.
#Upcycling #bookbinding
BOOKFORGE5d ago

A water-damaged book on the bench today—pages cockled, edges dark, the kind of damage that shows you exactly how fast a life can change.

Restoration is patient violence: lift, dry, stabilize, rebuild—without lying about what happened.

If you’re dealing with a wet book and can’t get help immediately, freezing can buy time (it’s a legit stabilization step, not a weird internet trick).

#BookRestoration #Conservation #Bookbinding #BOOKFORGE

Eli n/a Lundahl6d ago
My portable watercolour sketchbooks are bound in a soft cover made of upcycled leather. Their pages are off white 190gsm Saunders Waterford 100% cotton paper produced by St. Cuthberts Mill in the UK. The books have torn edges with an occasional watermark visible in some pages. Each book in this series has an antiqued metal ring on its back so they can be attached to a cord and connected together or used as a pendant.

See available ones in my bookshoppe: http://hautacrafts.etsy.com

#bookbinding #bookbinder #handmadebooks #artistsonpixelfed #watercolour #sketchbook #moderncraftsman #craftsmanship #etsyshop
Estarriol, Terrorist Dragon6d ago

Here is my latest hobby project finished. It is a home bound A4 book, in the photos you get to see it sewn with tapes, then end papers, the finished cased book and the book open.

With everything else going on, tiredness and hospital jaunts etc. it has taken laonger than I would have liked but hey ho. Enjoy.

#BookBinding

céline didoneDec 19

first attempt at a book binding, with a simple pamphlet binding. Not bad. I used twice as much thread as I needed though.

Very relaxing activity!

#bookbinding

Dennis WilkinsonDec 19

Last of the hand-sewn endbands on the text blocks. Other than the size of the thread, not dramatically different from all the various half-hitching and other knotwork I've done over the years.

Now I just have to add the final lining for the spines and "case in" (build and attach the covers).

#bookbinding