Book Binding / Book Art
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- antigirl0
art's hard.
sometimes - by the time you get paid, you have spent the money a couple times over. so you're always just waiting for a pay check or a buyer, or commission jobs - i suppose that's a lot like freelance though.
- Dancer0
Antigirl,
Looks like you have a good head for binding techniques, I may drop you a mail at some point if that is cool?
- antigirl0
yeah, totally. i am hard at instructions though. :)
most i learned by making one sample exactly how directions say, looking at it, trying to tear it apart (to see how well it holds up) realizing what i hate about it, and then completely modifying it in another sample, and then hopefully starting on something with good materials that isn't prototypes. i am quite a perfectionist so i will go through a lot of different samples/prototypes a looooot.
- quoined0
i recommend any of the keith smith books. amazing book artist/ book binder who has implemented and created various book binding techniques. books come with diagrams as well as instructions.
book binding adds a great element to design... and you can bind single pages together... they dont have to be in the traditional printer's layout 1-16, 2-15, 3-14 and so on... if you are looking for traditional binding then yes, that is the way to go.
- ********0
I make a lot of books by hand, sewn, perfect, saddled—hard and soft. I agree with antigirl that it is extremely timeconsuming. Highets run I have ever made was 250—and there was a lot of time spent.
Baskerville, in relation to the sewing signatures, etc. for the hardcover, you can also create a hard cover from only a perfect bind. I make sprung arch hard covers (pretty standard) with a glue back perfect binding. Have not had one spine break yet.
As a tip, in place of a studio press, you can use a couple of boards and clamps to apply even pressure and “press” books for binding. I use “quik-grip” clamps because of their ease to handle when trying to wrestle the press and the book/s.
there are lots of little tricks. Just takes practice. Definietly love a good book.