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The large custom journal that I’m making right now requires that I trim a long strip off the side of every sheet of paper, to make the pages the right size. So that means, I have a whole bunch of strips of paper for making little notebooks. You can watch... This is the most basic bookbinding technique; it is called a 3-hole pamphlet stitch. If you’ve ever taken any sort of bookbinding class, then you probably started with this. It is a simple sewing pattern that can be done very quickly and…

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This version of the Bradel binding is a single signature in a hard case. It was sewn using a four hole pamphlet stitch. Before it was sewn, a piece of book cloth approximately 3 inches wide was folded in half with the cloth side next to the text and was sewn together with the text pages. I made the case up from two cover boards, a spine piece and a strip of paper to connect the pieces. The boards were cut to the height of the pages plus 3/16 of an inch, and were cut wider than the page…

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My life right now is dealing with 100 prayer books for an upcoming Bar Mitzvah. I am hand sewing the books using a 5 hole pamphlet stitch so I thought that I would share the experience with you. Rather than trying to explain how to do the basic stitch, I found a great video that explains the process quite well. Instead, I decided that I would share some other insights with you based on the video presentation. Insight #1: Rather than mark the pages with a pencil, you should use a punch…

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four notebooks are lined up on top of each other and tied with twine

In this video tutorial you can learn how to do a 4-hole Japanese binding. This is the basic traditional method of Japanese bookbinding ( or stab binding ). Stab bindings allow you to make books that are not possible with other bindings. For instance, in a pamphlet-stitch book, each leaf, or page, cannot have a different color. But in a stab-bound book , you can use scraps of different weights, textures and colors as long as they are the same size or can be cut to the same size. This is the…

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