Worksheets for Bookbinders

Getting Started at Home

Makeshift Bookbinding – setting up at home

Cutting Board By Hand

Make Your Own Bookcloth

Make Your Own Corner Cutter

Make Your Own Pricking Cradle

Make Your Own Paste Mix

Embossing at Home

Marbled Papers

Setting Up A Bindery After College

Bookbinding Basics

Grain Direction

Weaver’s Knot

Kettle Stitch

Making Sections

Making a Sewing Hole Guide 

Covering a Board

Imposition

Custom Bind a Published Book

Simple Structures

Cut and Fold Books

Zig-zag Books

Zig-zag Book with Hard Cover

Single Sheets as a Zig Zag Book

Japanese/stab sewing

Hard cover for Japanese Binding

Section Binding

Single-Section Sewing

Single-section Page Collage

Hard Cover for a single-section book

Hard Cover Multi-Section Book:

• • • Multi-section sewing: French link stitch
    • Glue the Spine – Multi-section
    • Endpapers for a Multi-section Book
    • Line the Spine to Make it Stronger
    • Hard Cover for a Multi-section Book
    • Casing In – Joining the (Multi-section) pages to the cover

Soft Cover for a Multi-section Book

Coptic Sewing

Coptic Sewing with a Hard Cover (this link will open in YouTube)

Some Coptic Variations

Swiss Binding Hard Cover

Drumleaf Binding

Sustainable Bookbinding

Vegan Leather Limp Binding

Simple Box Making

Phase Box (soft)

Wrap Around Portfolio Case

Slip case

Other Book Structures

Pocket Book 1

Pocket Ideas for Section Bound Books

Simple Pop-ups

Early Book Forms

Flag Book

Hedi Kyle Book Structures

Woven and Interlocking Book Structures

Map Folds

The Blocking Press

General Info

Using the Blocking Press

Other Resources

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