Button hole book binding

For the September workshop, Lara Cox will be teaching a book binding technique that is a variation of the binding taught in Keith Smith's bo...

This book is a lot of fun. I love being able to see the spine of a book. You can make as many holes in the spine as you want and even use co...

A group of local book art lovers finished an OLLI class last week and created some beautiful model books in preparation for their final book. Some had never made a book and I don’t think any …

Below are some photos of recent projects I made in my Book & Paper Class. We just learned the buttonhole stitch binding. I did one plain with the basic rectangle "buttonhole" opening on the spine. Then I did one at home with an octagon opening that flows over to the covers. This is the octagon cover open. The cover is sewing pattern paper base with inks and rubberstamped images. I continued the octagon theme by dry embossing my paper (first page of each signature) with an octagon design…

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At the end of my last post, I had six signatures and two covers, ready for poking holes and binding. Vocab recap! (words I learned doing this) folio - a sheet folded in half to form two sheets for the book signature - a nested group of folios that are later bound together to form the book

This bookbinding tutorial was originally written by myself as a contribution to a LiveJournal bookbinding group, circa 2004. That group is no more, so the tutorial lives on here. Apologies for the poor quality of photos! Do you want to learn about binding books? Here is everything basic that you need to know in one... Read more »