Coptic binding

Nicole Irwood on Instagram: "My latest bookbinding project, vintage leather gloves and handmade paper with a coptic binding - it's pretty darn lovely. #bookbinding #bookart #booksculpture #upcycling #papercrafts #papermaking"

During this 3.5-hour workshop, participants will get to learn basic bookbinding skills and how to handcraft an exposed spine book using 3 different stitches - french link stitch, link stitch and kettle stitch. Participants will be able to customise their books by choosing from blank and/or dotted grid pages and from a variety of colours for the cover and thread.

The coptic stitch bookbinding method is another way to bind your book with a spine that opens up completely, so you can lay your book flat. Sometimes it’s also called chain stitch in bookbinding, but more often it’s called coptic stitch binding. I think it’s a great method for when you have book covers that […]

I'm in the middle of reading and writing currently, but I took a little break to make a little book for a friend's birthday. The pai...

4 best coptic book binding tutorials and videos

Ok, so the title might be a little misleading… we’ve actually crammed in 18 of the best Coptic Stitch (also known as the Chain Stitch or Coptic Sewing) book binding instructions and tutorials we could find on the web, along with a collection of video tutorials and many coptic-stitch related resources (PDF’s, Stitching Patterns, Photo Galleries etc) for you to get stuck in to – it took us a while to put this together but we hope it serves as a good resource for some of you out there. If…

Hi friends! I have been asked to create a tutorial for my sketchbooks. I had resisted for quite a while because there are many other videos about a Coptic stitch binding but after hearing so many v…

Little Forest on Instagram: "TUTORIAL!!! I made this video to show you how I sewn this book. It’s coptic stictches combined with double French link stitches in 2 colors of thread. I sew French link 2 times in each signatures. Hope you can figure it out. Thank you for watching and enjoy binding your book . . #notebookbinding #bookbinding #handmade #diy #bookbinder #handicraft #copticbinding #papercraft #sketchbook #handbound #crafts #handboundbook #bookbinding #etsyvancouver…

19K views · 1.8K likes | Lacy Stoneburner | Bookbinder on Instagram: "A real-time look at multi-needle coptic binding. ✨️ Have you tried this binding style? #copticbinding #copticstitch #bookbinding"

Back in April I mentioned in this post that I had seen a terrific video at Bard Graduate Center of the making of a Coptic bound book with l...