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Historical Book Sewing Sampler — Anne Covell | Book & Paper Arts

I’ve had a lot of interest in my bookmaking hobby so I figured I’d share an easy guide on how to get started! Like most hobbies there’s a small upfront investment to gather all of your supplies and materials. Fortunately, bookmaking is a relatively affordable hobby so there’s not too much that you have to […]

Each printed cell is folded, stitched together with a thread or wire, cutIt is called book binding (booklet) to attach a cover to it and make it into a book.The effort to make a beautiful and robust book is as old as the history of the book.I put it in…

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…

The Internet is full of different types of bookbinding tutorials - some more detailed than others, some written by bookbinders and some by enthusiastic hobbyist. What they usually have in common that they still focus on giving out instructions for one specific project. Today I hope to give you a few