Just some things to note here: the stitching is called a kettle stitch. Do not glue between the boards on the spine pieces like he did, that adds unwanted moisture and prevents the book from opening efficiently. Use acid free paper and a text weight paper (preferably over 60lb paper) his paper will never sit correctly because it wasn’t the right paper to use so it’ll just be cockled forever. Always glue your paper to your board, do not glue the board to the paper like he did with the book cloth. All cloth/paper expands while wet so you have to account for swell. Gluing the cloth then placing the boards on top of the cloth is better for the survival of the book. Do not immediately open the book after gluing the way he did. That effects the longevity of the book and can cause movement in the way the boards are glued then making your book crooked. Always immediately place under weight after gluing.
pikachu1324 He talks in his tips videos and will sometimes talk in these videos. I think it might have been his q&a video where he explains more about why he does that
ThereIsNoMatch Well, it may have been harder, but less rapid. Remember, before the printing press you had to transcribe books by hand. ;) Oh, and they didn't have nice sheets of paper in giant bundles either. They also were likely writing on animal skins, around that time we're talking about.
Bookbinders in the past used a more efficient method: After the book pages were clamped between the wood, instead of marking the pages for the holes and taking them apart to poke holes in each section with an icepick, a small saw was used to cut across the areas where he marked creating the holes in far less steps. Instead of drawing with a pen, the book binder cuts a trench with a saw at the very same place the pen draws. The trench cut by the saw creates holes in all of the pages in a row at once. While still in the wood form, a hammer is used to flatten out the back. This increases the surface area on the pages for the glue at a later stage. Then, the book in the wood form is laid in a structure that has heavy hemp pieces of string that fit into the trenches cut by the saw. When the pages are opened, each hemp string pokes a bit into each folded page. The binder then runs a cotton string perpendicular to, and behind each hemp string. The pages at the fold are now trapped behind a cotton string which at every place there is a hemp string the cotton string runs under the hemp string and then back over the paper. This avoids a far less knots. The hemp strings are then cut from the hemp string stand, the book is removed from the hemp string stand, turned up again and glue is applied to the back. While gluing the pages, the hemp string is also glued and immobilized stuck to the cloth backing. The cotton holds down the paper. The cotton is held down by the hemp. The hemp is glued and attached to the cloth gauze by the glue. The gauze and glue attach everything else together. Then the rest of the steps are the same. While they seem out of place, saws and hammers play key roles in traditional bookbinding.
I have never done it, but I have seen it done. Let me try to see if I can find a video. I remember seeing a video of bookbinders repairing books. When they take them apart and put them back together, it is the same process.
This brings back some memories. I knew an old artisan who not only hand bound his own books he was an awesome drafting teacher. I thank him every day for the design skills I learned from him and his great eye for detail he put into everything he did.
DiResta is a renaissance man. Not sure there isn't anything he cant do. That has helped countless people step up and TRY new things, with no experience. That is why he inspires me to give it a shot, learn, and do it again if it didn't come out right. The fun is the learning new things and Jimmy has inspired me to do just that. Much love and support. Respect.
jimmydiresta although, I couldnt quite make out exactly what you were doing with the stitches, at least when you were adding a new page for the first stitch
Damn Jimmy, that's one fine book! Now just waiting for a video on how to do embossed gold leaf lettering on the front, or at least a lock keeping with the diary theme!
Drunkenwood How-to Videos Hey David, how about taking your recycled paper and binding it into a book? Or would the time required to make that much recycled paper be too cumbersome?
time and time again I watch this video. it's so awesome the way the book comes together. I love all your videos but this one is so chilled, i think because there's no power tools.
Jimmy DiResta jimmydiresta Hey Jimmy! Awesome video, thanks for sharing. Any chance you could cover this method and what kind of materials you used a little more in-depth in another video sometime? With such a professional-looking result, I think a lot of people would really love to see it!
Hi! I'm in the process of learning this beautiful art and this video is very very helpful. Amazing! Jimmy i love all your videos. You are so talented. Please continue sharing your skills with us! Thank you.
Found you; very good vid; watched a few to self teach book binding a while back and you're the first to show corners like this - very kewl and I will be using it. Also, the front/back pages you're the first to dbl up the pages adhering to f/b covers & inside pages, very kewl and will try that. Thanks - most enjoyable!
This book is too freaking cool. I love this channel, subscribe to this channel, love the projects, love the speed, and absence of extraneous chatter. But really, this book is cool; I've watched other book-making videos. This one just gets to the point without fuss, without complications, with simplicity and the result is just as good. Love this channel. Love this book. Go Jimmy. Go Spike.
Ty for sharing. I liked the speed changes throughout your video. And no music was a really nice touch, too. But the best part of your video was learning how to make a real book. Thanks.
Thanks for this video. Inspired me to find some more details about the stitching, and made my own book a week or so ago. Working on my second now, which I did try a different stitching method for, that will be a Christmas gift for a family member.
Hey Jimmy, Great work - as usual ! For my sake : try giving the covers a heavy hand rub with Beeswax - it will deeply darken the color maybe from red to brown. But believe me you will love the final finish, and will protect it. Use a "pear" of cotton ball wrapped with gauze. A buff with microfiber after that will double your pleasure. Your book is already alive - with all that life your hands put in it. The above will make further make it so.
I've been binding books like this for gifts for the last year or so, and one time-saving tip is to pre-punch (or drill out) the holes in the paper while they are stacked. I tend to make my pages out of cardstock as we use them as a replacement for hallmark-esque cards. I will measure and pre-drill the holes while the wrap is still on the block of cardstock. This tip saves me TONS of time punching holes in each signature, especially when making a bunch of books.
Very cool video!! Having never done anything like this though, it would've been great to see a list of materials, detail on the threading part, and a little more coverage on how the cover was made, cut, etc. I would love to make my own too, and will definitely be using this video as a reference (if I can find out the "rest of the story").
While finding a lot is standard techniques or methods generally not used because they are more labor intensive than necessary I do like the tab cut chosen for the cornering. It is one I've not seen presented on other bookmaking videos and gives a far more satisfying edge.
Nice video. I always like watching how other people make their books... little details like how you use two awls to punch your sewing stations. One to hold the paper in place and the other to finish it. I have never seen mitered corners like the way you did. Very interesting. Fun video!
looks like ordinary kettlestitches, just poke holes, make sure you have an uneven amount of holes, and just sew in an out of the holes, always looping the thread into the stitch below each hole as you go and bam lol
I know you most likely don't need this info after such a long time, but Sea Lemon made a video about the above mentioned style of stitches that he used in the video.
I used to do book binding but I had forgot how to do the actual bind. I just somehow stumbled here and remembered those times and got a nice glimpse of how its done. I might just get some paper and other stuff and bind a book. Ah, I remember this small book which has a fake leather and cloth covers, hmm... where have I put it.
Thanks for this video! It was a bit too fast and somehow I managed to bind the page bundles in some weird way, but my friend book looks awesome now that it's all done!
When I was Service Manager at Southern Microfilm many many moons ago we would bring in Book Binders to Bind the Public Record Books kept by the Clerks of Court. I used to watch these people work. Binding Books by hand was something of a lost art even in the mid 1980's. Jimmy did it just like I saw the Book Binders do it. I was wondering where Jimmy learned how to do it.
My favorite part about bookbinding is being able to get exactly the book you want. I built myself an engineering notebook filled with isometric grid paper, with titanium boards, and covered in super durable 600 denier ballistic nylon. Also, I've read that you should fold all of the sheets of a signature together at one time so that you get more of a rounded fold and don't break the fibers with a crease.
To trim the edges of a book (or a stack of cards or play money or whatever) you clamp it up between 2 boards, one higher in the back to give you something to cut against and the other in the front clamped at the line you wish to cut. You then take a wood chisel and while laying it flat against the top of the front board slice away a few pages at a time until you get through to the back board.
done quite right, a couple of comments - instead of PVA, for gluing book block to the cover and gluing cardboard cover material to correctly use glue Dextrin, it is not as wet as the PVA not impregnate paper and cardboard, after gluing everything smooth, without wrinkles and waves. And the book block to be cut off after the assembly on three sides by the guillotine (maybe try instead tablesaw it, haha?) Everything is very very well done!
AMAZING BOOK! This is really going to help me with my dissertation. Was that a bookboard you used to make the hard cover? Also what type of material is that you used for the cover?
Wonderful video of a a craft I have wanted to learn. Too fast though! Wow! Can't even focus on what you are doing because of the speed it is played at. Would love to see this slowed down so that I can see how you doing the tricky bits. Thank you for sharing.
I used to work for a printing and binding company for almost ten years. Was a journeyman in the binding and that is exactly how they used to do it. Not to many books are made by hand anymore. Looks good. Where did you get the super and headband material?
Jimmy,, As a guy who sells books for a living, and have done my share of repairs, I am super impressed. Not nearly as easy as you make it look. I come to your channel often expecting a guitar, or a skyscraper. This was the last thing I thought I would see. Big respect for you.
Video brought back some memories! I spent many hours folding the corners of book covers at H.V. Chapman and Sons (google hvcbooks). Never did the sewing... but maybe I need to give it a try now. Great work (as always) sir!
What did you do! What did you just do?!!! Oh that's right. Created a burning desire to make lots of books right in the center of my heart. I will achieve this one day! But not today. I have to spend today with my Nan. She awesome.
Awesome work. Gave me lost of ideas to personalize a handmade book. Maybe embossing a design in the material used for the book cover. Printing something from the computer on each piece of paper to appear at the top of each page. Using the same material to make a matching bookmark. Using a map of the region as the paper lining on the inside cover. Heck, maybe even using sheet aluminum as the cover material instead. I'm inspired!
Sea Lemon made a video about it, although probably not before you commented. In fact I'm not sure why I'm responding, as you've most likely forgotten you ever wrote that comment X3
@@Huff-Robertson ah sorry about that. She does have other videos discussing different types of stitches, and if that isnt what you need you can check out NerdForge
Just some things to note here: the stitching is called a kettle stitch.
Do not glue between the boards on the spine pieces like he did, that adds unwanted moisture and prevents the book from opening efficiently.
Use acid free paper and a text weight paper (preferably over 60lb paper) his paper will never sit correctly because it wasn’t the right paper to use so it’ll just be cockled forever.
Always glue your paper to your board, do not glue the board to the paper like he did with the book cloth. All cloth/paper expands while wet so you have to account for swell. Gluing the cloth then placing the boards on top of the cloth is better for the survival of the book.
Do not immediately open the book after gluing the way he did. That effects the longevity of the book and can cause movement in the way the boards are glued then making your book crooked. Always immediately place under weight after gluing.
Very sound help
Why don't u also made a one video on this it really sounds helpful😊
Even though I know he doesn't talk in his videos, I still keep the sound on. I guess I like the sound of the sped up tools.
pikachu1324 He talks in his tips videos and will sometimes talk in these videos. I think it might have been his q&a video where he explains more about why he does that
pikachu1324 Same here. :)
Always loved that about diresta vids
pikachu1324 He also talks on a podcast "Making It" with Bob Clagett (I Like To Make Stuff) and David Picciuto (Drunkenwood)
+Greg MacKenzie Thank you for that, I didn't know it excited till you mentioned it. :)
Sorta makes you respect all the people who bound thousands of books a couple hundred/thousand years ago, doesn't it?
ThereIsNoMatch Well write them too for that matter [edited]
ThereIsNoMatch nah
nunya biznez Bullshit. Do you have to literally so an ebook together at the seams?
ThereIsNoMatch It's even harder to imagine how bookbinding was hundreds of years ago considering paper was invented in 1947
ThereIsNoMatch Well, it may have been harder, but less rapid.
Remember, before the printing press you had to transcribe books by hand. ;)
Oh, and they didn't have nice sheets of paper in giant bundles either. They also were likely writing on animal skins, around that time we're talking about.
Bookbinders in the past used a more efficient method:
After the book pages were clamped between the wood, instead of marking the pages for the holes and taking them apart to poke holes in each section with an icepick, a small saw was used to cut across the areas where he marked creating the holes in far less steps. Instead of drawing with a pen, the book binder cuts a trench with a saw at the very same place the pen draws. The trench cut by the saw creates holes in all of the pages in a row at once.
While still in the wood form, a hammer is used to flatten out the back. This increases the surface area on the pages for the glue at a later stage.
Then, the book in the wood form is laid in a structure that has heavy hemp pieces of string that fit into the trenches cut by the saw. When the pages are opened, each hemp string pokes a bit into each folded page. The binder then runs a cotton string perpendicular to, and behind each hemp string. The pages at the fold are now trapped behind a cotton string which at every place there is a hemp string the cotton string runs under the hemp string and then back over the paper. This avoids a far less knots.
The hemp strings are then cut from the hemp string stand, the book is removed from the hemp string stand, turned up again and glue is applied to the back. While gluing the pages, the hemp string is also glued and immobilized stuck to the cloth backing.
The cotton holds down the paper. The cotton is held down by the hemp. The hemp is glued and attached to the cloth gauze by the glue. The gauze and glue attach everything else together.
Then the rest of the steps are the same.
While they seem out of place, saws and hammers play key roles in traditional bookbinding.
Interesting, thanks!
***** Cool! I saw something very close to that on the TV show, How It's Made. Any chance you have a video of such a project?
***** thanks whilst it took me a minute to read the comment, it thought something I might use in the future
I have never done it, but I have seen it done. Let me try to see if I can find a video. I remember seeing a video of bookbinders repairing books. When they take them apart and put them back together, it is the same process.
+Lewis Doherty Holy damn dude, that was probably the most useful and informative UA-cam comment ever.
This brings back some memories. I knew an old artisan who not only hand bound his own books he was an awesome drafting teacher. I thank him every day for the design skills I learned from him and his great eye for detail he put into everything he did.
The precision and attention to detail for that tiny paper flap in the corner of the hardcover... that really gets me going.
Jimmy's videos are so awesome and relaxing !!!!
BEAUTIFUL!!! I haven't made a book in 12 years. Looks like I might have remedy that. Awesome as usual Jimmy DiResta thanks for always inspiring.
DiResta is a renaissance man. Not sure there isn't anything he cant do. That has helped countless people step up and TRY new things, with no experience. That is why he inspires me to give it a shot, learn, and do it again if it didn't come out right. The fun is the learning new things and Jimmy has inspired me to do just that. Much love and support. Respect.
I love how everything is just visual instructions and nothing verbal :) For some reason it's much easier to understand what he's doing!
Haha thank you nice to hear it works !! Xo
jimmydiresta although, I couldnt quite make out exactly what you were doing with the stitches, at least when you were adding a new page for the first stitch
howycwap I was a little confused, but then he slowed it down part-way through and I understood.
+Courtney Ortiz-Cseh It's also universal, no oral language involved.
its easier to get an overview before you start your project, since all the info is just right there, bam, not getting caught up into details
I love the way you do the corners for the cover fabric, much smoother than what I've been doing.
As a book lover this was an absolute treat to watch. Always wondered how they cut the corners in. Great job Jimmy.
Damn Jimmy, that's one fine book! Now just waiting for a video on how to do embossed gold leaf lettering on the front, or at least a lock keeping with the diary theme!
This video is 1000 times better than those Maker Camp videos that have been on the feed this week.
This is so good! So good!
Drunkenwood How-to Videos Hey David, how about taking your recycled paper and binding it into a book? Or would the time required to make that much recycled paper be too cumbersome?
I would definitely take some time but would make for a cool book!
time and time again I watch this video. it's so awesome the way the book comes together. I love all your videos but this one is so chilled, i think because there's no power tools.
I am in awe of this lost art. I never knew how much time and effort this took.
Great Video!!!
Jimmy D is the best. Always entertaining to watch him work.
Jimmy DiResta jimmydiresta Hey Jimmy! Awesome video, thanks for sharing. Any chance you could cover this method and what kind of materials you used a little more in-depth in another video sometime? With such a professional-looking result, I think a lot of people would really love to see it!
Diresta you have some mad skills. Hard to come by for most.
Hi! I'm in the process of learning this beautiful art and this video is very very helpful. Amazing! Jimmy i love all your videos. You are so talented. Please continue sharing your skills with us! Thank you.
Found you; very good vid; watched a few to self teach book binding a while back and you're the first to show corners like this - very kewl and I will be using it. Also, the front/back pages you're the first to dbl up the pages adhering to f/b covers & inside pages, very kewl and will try that. Thanks - most enjoyable!
Very good! I work with bookbinding myself and was amazed with the details in your binding. Mainly the cover.
This book is too freaking cool. I love this channel, subscribe to this channel, love the projects, love the speed, and absence of extraneous chatter. But really, this book is cool; I've watched other book-making videos. This one just gets to the point without fuss, without complications, with simplicity and the result is just as good. Love this channel. Love this book. Go Jimmy. Go Spike.
Ty for sharing. I liked the speed changes throughout your video. And no music was a really nice touch, too. But the best part of your video was learning how to make a real book. Thanks.
This is seriously really nice! Well done Jimmy!
This is one of those videos that you want to watch in real time, amazing.
Make: You can keep your arduino and raspberry pi; give me more Jimmy.
CDeanhartman he has his own channel
Cool watching this process. I'm think I'm just about inspired enough to give it a try. Thanks Jimmy!
Very talented. Always like to watch his videos.
Thanks for this video. Inspired me to find some more details about the stitching, and made my own book a week or so ago. Working on my second now, which I did try a different stitching method for, that will be a Christmas gift for a family member.
This is why hard back books are more expensive than paper backs. I have learned a lot of book binding from your fantastic video. Thanks.
I had no idea soo much went into making books! Fantastic!
Hey, I was waiting for Spike to jump into the mix...awesome video as always.
I love this video! Thank you, so much, for taking the time to teach us!
Jimmy, you dont know how long I have waited for this video. For some reason I have been drawn to making a book lately. Weirdest thing....
The one and only Diresta.Speechless !!!
Excellent. This is so much better than having important papers sent off for binding (and much cheaper too!)
Jimmy you impress me more and more truly amazing that you have so many talented skill sets
He's alive!!!! Missed you Jimmy
Hey Jimmy,
Great work - as usual !
For my sake : try giving the covers a heavy hand rub with Beeswax - it will deeply darken the color maybe from red to brown. But believe me you will love the final finish,
and will protect it. Use a "pear" of cotton ball wrapped with gauze. A buff with microfiber after that will double your pleasure.
Your book is already alive - with all that life your hands put in it. The above will make
further make it so.
Amazing to watch him as always.
Why is this so satisfying to watch?
Beautiful video and build! Loved your vintage press!
I've been binding books like this for gifts for the last year or so, and one time-saving tip is to pre-punch (or drill out) the holes in the paper while they are stacked.
I tend to make my pages out of cardstock as we use them as a replacement for hallmark-esque cards. I will measure and pre-drill the holes while the wrap is still on the block of cardstock.
This tip saves me TONS of time punching holes in each signature, especially when making a bunch of books.
Jimmy never fails to amaze!
I like the way he's making the book and not using glue excessively.
Are you kidding me !? THATS AWESOME! Good work Diresta
You Sir! Are a true Artisan! One of an ever diminishing number! Brilliant! I love hard cover books and refuse e-readers!
Thank you for that very comprehensive tutorial on binding a book of Greek debt repayments
jimmydiresta Though I do enjoy the wood and metal working videos from you, it's this kind of video that fascinates me. Absolutely first class.
very satisfying in the eyes, but i am also here for the sounds. it would be relaxing
Dude! That was insane! That makes me want to make one! Thanks Jimmy!
Very cool video!!
Having never done anything like this though, it would've been great to see a list of materials, detail on the threading part, and a little more coverage on how the cover was made, cut, etc.
I would love to make my own too, and will definitely be using this video as a reference (if I can find out the "rest of the story").
You are just so good at it!!!! I love your videos!
While finding a lot is standard techniques or methods generally not used because they are more labor intensive than necessary I do like the tab cut chosen for the cornering. It is one I've not seen presented on other bookmaking videos and gives a far more satisfying edge.
Nice video. I always like watching how other people make their books... little details like how you use two awls to punch your sewing stations. One to hold the paper in place and the other to finish it. I have never seen mitered corners like the way you did. Very interesting. Fun video!
The best of everything is your hope that we can do this, without even can't see and understand what are you doing
Cou can't imagine how happy i am i finalllllyyy found vid on how to glue kettle stitch paper block on linnen cloth
very cool. would be good to get a bit more detail on the sewing side of things. Great work Mr DiResta
Thats what i was thinking i was following quite well until that point got confused while he did that then followed the end
looks like ordinary kettlestitches, just poke holes, make sure you have an uneven amount of holes, and just sew in an out of the holes, always looping the thread into the stitch below each hole as you go and bam lol
I know you most likely don't need this info after such a long time, but Sea Lemon made a video about the above mentioned style of stitches that he used in the video.
Awesome Jimmy! I'm totally making this for christmas presents!
9/10! Great job, as usual. I would have loved to seen some headbanding, but everything else was spot on!
1:38 - The 1" marking for the binding thread can be followed by sawing on the marks to make the needed holes.
Wow ,Nice video ..thanks so much for sharing .The glue together book seems so much more simple ..I think I will try the glue together idea first .
I always love Jimmy. And writing in the diary made me laugh!
I used to do book binding but I had forgot how to do the actual bind.
I just somehow stumbled here and remembered those times and got a nice glimpse of how its done.
I might just get some paper and other stuff and bind a book.
Ah, I remember this small book which has a fake leather and cloth covers, hmm... where have I put it.
Very cool. I love it. It gives me an idea to keep my university notes.
apart from the amazing skills, the inscription at the end shows a lot about the man and his dad, absolutely love it
Thanks for this video! It was a bit too fast and somehow I managed to bind the page bundles in some weird way, but my friend book looks awesome now that it's all done!
Want to make a D&D spell book. I found my source video, thank you!
When I was Service Manager at Southern Microfilm many many moons ago we would bring in Book Binders to Bind the Public Record Books kept by the Clerks of Court. I used to watch these people work. Binding Books by hand was something of a lost art even in the mid 1980's. Jimmy did it just like I saw the Book Binders do it. I was wondering where Jimmy learned how to do it.
My favorite part about bookbinding is being able to get exactly the book you want. I built myself an engineering notebook filled with isometric grid paper, with titanium boards, and covered in super durable 600 denier ballistic nylon.
Also, I've read that you should fold all of the sheets of a signature together at one time so that you get more of a rounded fold and don't break the fibers with a crease.
Very cool. This is one I wish you had voice over. Thanks for the video.
Great video Jimmy. I'm guessing that book binding nerds will be nicer than knife nerds?
Way too talented. Makes up for the rest of us!
To trim the edges of a book (or a stack of cards or play money or whatever) you clamp it up between 2 boards, one higher in the back to give you something to cut against and the other in the front clamped at the line you wish to cut. You then take a wood chisel and while laying it flat against the top of the front board slice away a few pages at a time until you get through to the back board.
He is a wizard
The best book ever. It should be a bestseller :-)
Excellent work! Thanks for sharing!
Man I bet your real good at wrapping Christmas presents
done quite right, a couple of comments - instead of PVA, for gluing book block to the cover and gluing cardboard cover material to correctly use glue Dextrin, it is not as wet as the PVA not impregnate paper and cardboard, after gluing everything smooth, without wrinkles and waves. And the book block to be cut off after the assembly on three sides by the guillotine (maybe try instead tablesaw it, haha?) Everything is very very well done!
AMAZING BOOK!
This is really going to help me with my dissertation. Was that a bookboard you used to make the hard cover? Also what type of material is that you used for the cover?
Exactly what I want to know!
My story is 230k words. I can just imagine how thick the book would be if I made one.
I really love this. It's a beautiful book.
Wonderful video of a a craft I have wanted to learn. Too fast though! Wow! Can't even focus on what you are doing because of the speed it is played at. Would love to see this slowed down so that I can see how you doing the tricky bits. Thank you for sharing.
I used to work for a printing and binding company for almost ten years. Was a journeyman in the binding and that is exactly how they used to do it. Not to many books are made by hand anymore. Looks good. Where did you get the super and headband material?
You made a book! Dude, what can you not make?
Jimmy,, As a guy who sells books for a living, and have done my share of repairs, I am super impressed. Not nearly as easy as you make it look. I come to your channel often expecting a guitar, or a skyscraper. This was the last thing I thought I would see. Big respect for you.
thought it would be a really boring video , but it turned out quite interesting. Thumb up as always.
Really cool! I like the diary entry, jimmydiresta. ha ha
Video brought back some memories! I spent many hours folding the corners of book covers at H.V. Chapman and Sons (google hvcbooks). Never did the sewing... but maybe I need to give it a try now. Great work (as always) sir!
What an amazing looking book! Is that mdf that you used for the cover?
but does it have that new book smell?
Yep
What did you do! What did you just do?!!! Oh that's right. Created a burning desire to make lots of books right in the center of my heart.
I will achieve this one day!
But not today. I have to spend today with my Nan. She awesome.
Jimmy, you've got unfathomable patience, buddy!
Man! I enjoyed this! Thanks Jimmy
Beautiful work
Fan. Exactly what I needed without the usual waffle in bookbinding videos! 👍🏻👍🏻😃❤️
Awesome work. Gave me lost of ideas to personalize a handmade book. Maybe embossing a design in the material used for the book cover. Printing something from the computer on each piece of paper to appear at the top of each page. Using the same material to make a matching bookmark. Using a map of the region as the paper lining on the inside cover. Heck, maybe even using sheet aluminum as the cover material instead. I'm inspired!
I would have liked more details on that stitch pattern.
Sea Lemon made a video about it, although probably not before you commented. In fact I'm not sure why I'm responding, as you've most likely forgotten you ever wrote that comment X3
Zerianis This is a different stitch than sea lemon posted. This is a link stitch. The one sea lemon did isn’t a good way to stitch a text block.
@@Huff-Robertson ah sorry about that. She does have other videos discussing different types of stitches, and if that isnt what you need you can check out NerdForge
Awesome! Jimmy, if you wanted to gild the edges of the pages like they used to do, how would you do that? Gold foil?
Very interesting video
Makes me want to try binding myself
Thank you