This is what your friendly neighbourhood devski does on Christmas Eve.
Listening to Ed Sheeran. Drinking French cider. Binding books. Merry Christmas from #denver.
Always wanted to learn how to bind books. Or re-bind them, at least. Too many books that shouldn't have been fragile paperbacks but are. Are these Christmas presents? Listening to Cranes. Drinking scotch. Reading Beneath an Oil-Dark Sea. Merry Christmas from #theinternet.
Hubski has a crazy number of bookbinders for such a small community. Well, at least two (you and me), and b_b probably counts too, though I don't know if they are still practicing. Have you bound before? You seem to know what you are doing, so I would assume so. Oh yeah, now I see the last pic is all home bound. How does the stab binding work with a larger book? I've only used it for small pocket pads. Also, what stitch did you use? It sorta looks like a chain stitch, but I've never seen those done with a spine.
Nope, just following tutorials. The red and green are Japanese (stab) bound. The size didn't seem to be a problem. It's a Yotsume Toji stitch. I don't know anything about it, it's just what came up on Google. They don't actually have spines, the covers are just cloth glued to the first and last pages.Have you bound before?
Western bound, pages stitched together instead of glued, because that seemed like it would last longer. I don't know if the stitching has a name. A signature is four pages folded together. Each signature is stitched together thru the middle, bottom, top, and tied in the middle. Then all the signatures are tied together, thru the middle of one, out the middle of the other, thru the bottom of it, out the bottom of the next, et cetera. Then the board glued to the fabric, end pages glued to the cover.And what about this one?
Okay, yeah, I known that stitch, but I too don't know a name for it. It looks like you got it pretty nice and tight. If you haven't yet, I'd suggest getting a bone folder, because they're pretty wonderful and make the signatures a bunch easier. Hope to see more from you in the future, these look pretty sweet.
I learned to do this in "art school" and need/want to get back into it again, eventually. My list of things to get back into again is long. I was always much sloppier about it than you seem to be!