Designing, Printing and Making Your Own Bookcloth

This video will show you how to do two important things. First, it will show you how to temporarily stabilize any fabric so you can run it through your printer and print your own designs. Second, it will show you how to permanently adhere paper to the back of that fabric so you can cover your hardbound books and boxes with your own archival bookcloth (or book cloth, if you prefer :).
If you try to use regular fabric to create your handmade books without prepping it first you will almost always have disastrous results. But, if you take the time to prep that fabric by applying a permanent paper backing, then you should have awesome results.
So, these two processes allow you to print your own designs onto fabric and then turn that fabric into professional quality bookcloth that you can use for any of your bookmaking projects.
Here is a great source for the rice paper that I mention in the video:
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You can also buy wheat starch to make your paste. This has the gluten removed which makes it a bit more resistant to insects.
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And if you don't want to make paste at all, this Nori paste is a perfect archival substitute:
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If you don't like the curl you get from the rolls of freezer paper, you can buy 8 1/2 x 11 pre-cut sheets: amzn.to/2LQqC7V
These tempered glass shelves from amazon are a bit more expensive than the ones I bought from Ikea, but they are wide enough (14") to allow you to make some useful bookcloth without being too cumbersome. Having more than a couple shelves is useful so you can make lots of bookcloth at once.
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A nice inexpensive brayer:
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And, last but not least, here's a link for the protective glove you see me wearing in the latter part of the video, after I cut part of my thumb off :-0
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