I'm a graphic design student and one of teacher makes us submit our loads of homework in bind book form, your channel has saved me way too many times!! Love you!
I love how you start each video with a short description of the specific benefits of each binding method. It helped me to quickly flip through your videos to decide which method is best for my project. Great work on your videos, they're extremely easy to follow and helpful.
Do you feel an emotional connection to bookbinding? When I watch your videos I find myself almost in tears at the beauty and finesse of creating a beautiful handmade book with such simple materials. I feel a similar feeling when I browse the fabric aisles at craft stores. I just love fabric a lot!
I do feel a connection to my projects :) If I enjoy the process and outcome, there's a satisfying feeling which makes me return to make more projects! I also LOVE browsing art store aisles just to look. I do the same with journal sections at book stores. I'm happy to read my videos have that effect :D Thanks for watching!
@@eloiselastname4089 I thought I was the only person that did that; Im 15 which is around the age where you wrote this comment, and I thought it was weird but hey im not alone lol
This is exactly the technique I needed to put together an altered book I was working on. It completely fell apart, because I was using a hundred-year-old book. So now I have thick pages that need to be bound together in a way that will allow them to lie flat. I just KNEW you would have the perfect tutorial for my needs Thank you so very, very much for putting all of these skills where I can find an learn them. You are so generous with your time and energy.
I bound 13 sheets and did 9 holes. I thought it would take so long and it did but it was super fun. Your videos are really easy to understand and simple to browse through. Thank you for all the lovely work✨
I needed help in book binding for my new venture (Personalized story books for children). Most of the book binding videos that I came across were for folded pages. I needed one that was for single sheets. This particular video has been of great help to me. Thanks Sea for the descriptive video. God bless!!!
When I first started binding books about a year ago, I was so excited to find your videos! Now when I get notifications of your new posted videos, I get excited again for a new technique. Thank you so much for taking time to make these and educate us on how to keep this alive. It's been such a huge help to me and I never have a problem understanding your instructions! I do, though, still have to open up the coptic binding tutorial every time I start a book, that beginning just *won't* sink in for me no matter how many times I do it! ;)
Thanks for returning to watch my videos :D I will admit, if I haven't done a binding in awhile, I will think "wait, how did I do that again?" and sometimes even I watch parts of my own videos to refresh! Is that weird? Haha :)
I just wanted to say thank you! I am not the type of person who can usually sit through video tutorials, but yours are quick and informative. I think this is actually the first comment I have ever even made on a RUclips video lol. I am going to try this method for a cookbook I made for my best friend. Thanks Again!
This was so perfect! I made homemade paper, but it was too stiff to fold into signatures or really fold at all. This was such an easy to follow tutorial and looks so good!
Thank you from the heart! I made a handmade poetry and art book for my mother when we couldn't be together during COVID. She loves that she can leave it open to a different page each day and enjoy it anew. In a pinch, I used waxed dental floss (couldn't get waxed thread fast enough via delivery) and it worked great!
@@ginalina2731 A combination of things, actually! I cut each thread very long and individually, then I tied each end to a cheap dental threader (instead of an actual needle) and did all the strings between each page before moving on. I let all the string hang over the edge of a table, to keep the all organized. I also used very thin and durable thread, because a thicker thread would end up making the whole thing too thick towards the binding. For as many pages as I did, I recommend thin jewelry thread or a thin kite thread. As far as I remember, I didn't make a knot on every single page and made sure that each thread went completely "tight" before moving to the next one.
I finally finished! I decided to make a homemade baby book. In retrospect I should have chosen a different binding method, but I stuck to it and I love the result! It's going to be a sweet keepsake.
I want to make a nice gift for my pa, so I'll make him a large decorated photo album hybrid using this stitch. This is going to be an absolutely lovely gift❤
Thank you for this tutorial! I just used it to bind the instructions of a sewing pattern I'm sending out as part of a pattern swap. Mine doesn't look quite as even as yours yet, but it's definitely serviceable and much nicer than any store bought option. That the result lays open perfectly flat is a big plus for this use. I can definitely see myself applying this to more projects.
Bless you for this. I've been wanting to make a coptic with miscellaneous papers I've collected and definitely didn't want to fold (and ruin) them to make signatures.
Some notes from someone who is a beginner book-binder: I used this to create a custom book for my mother (story/cookbook). Taping the edges the was definitely helpful for reinforcing, but making a video on how to do this so it could be even/not wrinkle would have been helpful because this was easily the ugliest part. I had to punch the holes page by page with this method though, which took longer but it was okay. You DO NOT need 6 needles. Would 6 needles have saved me time? Absolutely. However, because this is an open stitch I was able to use one needle and just move it to each thread each time I bound a page. Very doable and it still came out beautiful. I also did not estimate the amount of thread accurately, not sure why but I cut pieces wayyy too long, so just be mindful. Too much was definitely better than not having enough though.
Wow! I think you've just saved my mom's 1953 copy of The Joy of Cooking cookbook! It was falling apart anyway so I pulled it apart to scan it in on a flatbed scanner. It's only 1,023 pages, including the index. I tried to put it in a 3-ring binder, but that's not working because I can't find one the right size or depth. Thanks a bunch! You're awesome!
Thank you so much for sharing your talents. I went OCD about making my own sketch book a couple of nights ago. Then spent more time than I care to admit looking for a non-folding, lay flat when open binding technique that didn't use adhesive. Yes, It will take a lot of time and patience, but it's a labor of love after all. Many thanks again.
My daughter is taking a lot of art classes at college and bringing home and lot of projects. This method seems like it would be great to display yet contain them. Thanks.
This is gonna be ideal for binding together the postcards that I've been keeping on the fridge. It's starting to look cluttered on there, but I like keeping the cards from friends and family.
Thank you so much for sharing all these. You are the best. I always come to you when I want to learn something easily. Your description is perfectly clear!! Thank you from Greece!!🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Your instructions are always clear and easy to follow. Thank you so much for your many book binding instructions. I love binding books for my calligraphy work and you are always my go to.
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thanks this is great! i bound my uni project, it took me 2 attempts because i'm an idiot and i used wool first! but about 9 hours later i'm done and it looks good! although yours is a lot neater! tip: DON'T USE WOOL
Ganz herzlichen Dank für dieses tolle und leicht verständliche Tutorial, mit Hilfe dieses Videos konnte ich ein wunderschönes Album zur Konfirmation meiner Tochter fertigstellen!!!
I'm using this to make a guest book for my cousin's wedding! I hope it looks great this will be my third book using your tutorials and they always turn out awesome.
This is great! I'm learning so I can teach my Dad for Father's Day; he's a photographer and I think it will do nicely for making a book of photographs.
Great tutorial! I had single book pages and wasn't sure how I could bind them and still open book flat. The book turned out well. Thanks for the video.
Thank you so much for this tutorial! I had a multipage calligraphy commission and did not know where to start on binding the single sheets. This video was just what I needed. It was easy to understand and implement. FYI, I used straight bookbinding needles--which was all I could find last minute. It required a bit of maneuvering, but was still doable. Thank you!
Very simple and easy tutorial and after watching this I realized that you could add a spine to this and before you add the back and front boards you probably could even glue some leather to them
I'm gonna use this to bind my journal for school! I really like typing rather than hand-writing it, but I wanted to hand in a physical copy, since long things don't look very nice on google docs. I'm gonna have some fun with this one... heh
Great tutorial. Easy to do right away by following the video closely. Fun project during quarantine. Used this technique to bind my nephew a homemade coloring book. Used a tapestry needle and unwaxed embroidery thread as that it what I had on hand.
Thank you for a very beautifully made video which very clearly showed all the steps necessary for making a single sheet bound book. It allowed me to create a nice bound book of my watercolor sketches.
So I didn't have any news wax handy at home so instead I waxed my thread with a scented candle....seems to have worked just fine & smell pretty now too LOL! I absolutely am loving making my book, some thing so relaxing about handsewing anything.
Thank you very much for this video ! This was the first time i was biding a book and, thanks to your explanations, i made it very well (and at the beginning i thought that it would be a disaster, because i never bind a book before and i hadn't those needles and wax). I made a photo album with 8 pages for my sister's birthday. And all your videos are so cool and instructive !
Awesome video! I'm gonna be making a scrapbook for my girlfriend for Mother's Day this year and I don't like modern scrapbooks. They just look like photo albums with no picture divisions. I'm gonna do it with thick, differently colored cardstock NON-folded (this was the first non-folded binding method I found), and keeping it old school with black picture corners! Thanks Sea Lemon!
Shadoweclipse13 I think you might be fine without adding spacers. The knots from the stitching actually add a small space between each page so it should be fine :) Thanks for checking out my video!
***** Awesome! Thanks for the quick reply!! I was laying in bed last night and I think I decided to do my own cover as well. Might go get some fabric. Do you have any tutorials on doing the covers specifically?
Shadoweclipse13 I have a video on how to make your own book cloth with fabric - bit.ly/VBU6pI. If you want to see more tips/add-ons or methods, I have my book videos organized in three playlists: Bookbinding Supplies, Substitutes & Tips - bit.ly/BindingTips Bookbinding Methods & Stitches - bit.ly/BindingMethods Bookmaking Projects - bit.ly/BookProjects Good luck!
Very nice. I've made a coptic bound book from your tutorials. It turned out nice but I had to choose the paper carefully as I wanted the thickest I could while making sure it would fold into signatures. I never thought of single-page binding before, I will give this a try as I have some great thick hot-press w-color paper.
I'm making a storybook to go along with some dolls I made for a friend's daughter's birthday coming up and I'm using watercolor paper, so this is exactly what I needed :)
This such a clear and Informative video. I used it to put together a scrapbook for a special birthday and I cant get over how simple it was to do and your video to follow. Thankyou so much for taking the time to make this video :)
This is excellent! I have watched several YT directions and yours is the very best one I have seen. Great job and this is how I am binding with my single page journals this year. Thank you so much for sharing.
Yay! Im going to use this to make a new sketch book that has multiple thicknesses and colors of paper! Im going to have black construction paper, thick smooth bristol, some normal sketching paper and possibly a rainbow with construction paper! Im so excited to do it :D
Thanks so much for posting this! I am going to use this method to bind the portfolio that I have to submit for my Masters degree application! I hope it will make me stand out from all the people who used a binding service!
I love this method for binding! Thank you so much for the video. You have helped me know how to bind and lay my pages flat so that I can continue to work on them. Thank you, thank you.
This is exactly what I was looking for! Your mad skillz are impressive. Just got hooked up with the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, so I'll have access to a lot of tools that normal people can't afford to have. but your stuff is awesome and free and I don't need big tools, which they have at the MCBA if I ever want to use them.
hey ! I just discovered your channel today, and I know this video is 5 years old, but if you want to make your hole in your paper bigger and make them easily, use a rubber or a piece of polystyrene while your make your holes under your paper or your piece of cover, it makes everything easier ! (sorry if our already know this technique now in 2019 but it can help others :3 )
That is brilliant, thank you. Your album looks fantastic with the different coloured threads as well. I make my own paper and have been using the Japanese stab binding method to make up into albums, but this will give me another option for binding. (I'll be checking out the other single sheet binding tutorials as well :-)) The sheets I make are a little soft, so you addressed that problem nicely with the tape. Thank you so much, for your time and hard work in producing these tutorials for us to use. For those of us in isolated/country areas, your tutorials are a huge help in learning something we wouldn't otherwise have access to. Jan xxxx
Thanks for your amazing tutorial! Despite the fact that it was my first experience with ever bookbinding, things went fairly well. I bound 40+ handpainted watercolour pages that had become farewell cards, into a book. I think that the thread I used must have been alot thinner than yours - your way of measuring how much thread was needed did not work for me and left me with about 3 times too much thread which was obviously a little difficult to manage as it would easily knot/tangle.. But that was my only hiccup.
I need a 9x12 inch sketchbook that's bound with mixed media paper for class- couldn't find one anywhere, so i decided to make my own! Sleeping for the night but in the morning i have to finish it- Your video will be much help :D
this is so helpful!! i am creating a branding book for my class and my spreads are 9 x 22 which would be SO EXPENSIVE to print. so i wanted to print pages instead. i was worried japanese binding would look off because it didn’t lay flat but this is perfect!
If I want to bind my single sheets but not incude the board because for the board I want to make it as my hard cover, like on your video "How to make hard cover: case binding", is it possible? Or any suggestion because I really want to mix both of them. And I'd love to say thankyou for all of your videos because it's really helping me.
Thank you so much for this video! I've been looking for a way to make an A3 paper size graphic design portfolio and this is the best option I've found so far :) With some addons of mine it's gonna be perfect
Oh shoot, i really like to see you flip through the book to see what the stitches look like on the inside. For a watercolor book that is the most important part for me. I like this idea of using clear tape for reinforcement... Im thinking of doing one with tape around the other 3 sides as well to act as a permanent frame of white around the paintings. What kind of tape did you use? I'm afraid packing tape would turn yellow after a few years... As always, love your content!
It worded well. But I had too much string. I measured the width then multiplied by my nine pages but had it at two metres per string, it looks great. A hand made book for my granddaughter in Canada. So far from Tasmania in this Covid time. 🌹
It is an interesting and possible method for binding single sheets. Hower I guess that the main inconvenient is the thickness of the thread and of the duct tape used to reinforce the sheets, but I'm afraid there could be no solution unless one wants to bind single sheets using a perfect binding technique both traditional or milled paperback with chord reinforcement.
youre just so so so so awesome!!!!! i`ve watched like so many of your bookbinding tutorials and i made a hardcover. it turned out so cool.(ppl wont believe i made it i`m just saying) i really need your help this time. i need to make a file folder and file in like 10 sheets i just wanted something-not-with-a--pocket and uncommon. i need to submit this project in 2 weeks from today. loads of hopes from you craft queen!!!!
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Thank you very much. I am 75 and today I learned something new. Made a book from 12 loose sheets of thick watercolor paper.
I'm a graphic design student and one of teacher makes us submit our loads of homework in bind book form, your channel has saved me way too many times!! Love you!
Aiste Jasmontaite I mean this is a fun project and everything but a professor making you do that?! That's crazy!
just finished my graphic design degree. fuck it and fuck college.
LOL my teacher does the same thing
Your teacher really wanted to torture you didn't they
I’m a graphic design student too and we have to print and bind our own portfolio books haha
I love how you start each video with a short description of the specific benefits of each binding method. It helped me to quickly flip through your videos to decide which method is best for my project. Great work on your videos, they're extremely easy to follow and helpful.
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Do you feel an emotional connection to bookbinding? When I watch your videos I find myself almost in tears at the beauty and finesse of creating a beautiful handmade book with such simple materials. I feel a similar feeling when I browse the fabric aisles at craft stores. I just love fabric a lot!
I do feel a connection to my projects :) If I enjoy the process and outcome, there's a satisfying feeling which makes me return to make more projects! I also LOVE browsing art store aisles just to look. I do the same with journal sections at book stores. I'm happy to read my videos have that effect :D Thanks for watching!
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king Zoe listen i was 15 when i wrote this i was crying over everything i liked
@@eloiselastname4089 it's beautiful! Don't be ashamed to find beauty in everything!
@@eloiselastname4089 I thought I was the only person that did that; Im 15 which is around the age where you wrote this comment, and I thought it was weird but hey im not alone lol
This is exactly the technique I needed to put together an altered book I was working on. It completely fell apart, because I was using a hundred-year-old book. So now I have thick pages that need to be bound together in a way that will allow them to lie flat. I just KNEW you would have the perfect tutorial for my needs Thank you so very, very much for putting all of these skills where I can find an learn them. You are so generous with your time and energy.
I bound 13 sheets and did 9 holes. I thought it would take so long and it did but it was super fun. Your videos are really easy to understand and simple to browse through. Thank you for all the lovely work✨
I needed help in book binding for my new venture (Personalized story books for children). Most of the book binding videos that I came across were for folded pages. I needed one that was for single sheets. This particular video has been of great help to me. Thanks Sea for the descriptive video. God bless!!!
When I first started binding books about a year ago, I was so excited to find your videos! Now when I get notifications of your new posted videos, I get excited again for a new technique. Thank you so much for taking time to make these and educate us on how to keep this alive. It's been such a huge help to me and I never have a problem understanding your instructions! I do, though, still have to open up the coptic binding tutorial every time I start a book, that beginning just *won't* sink in for me no matter how many times I do it! ;)
Thanks for returning to watch my videos :D I will admit, if I haven't done a binding in awhile, I will think "wait, how did I do that again?" and sometimes even I watch parts of my own videos to refresh! Is that weird? Haha :)
I just wanted to say thank you! I am not the type of person who can usually sit through video tutorials, but yours are quick and informative. I think this is actually the first comment I have ever even made on a RUclips video lol. I am going to try this method for a cookbook I made for my best friend. Thanks Again!
This was so perfect! I made homemade paper, but it was too stiff to fold into signatures or really fold at all. This was such an easy to follow tutorial and looks so good!
Thank you from the heart! I made a handmade poetry and art book for my mother when we couldn't be together during COVID. She loves that she can leave it open to a different page each day and enjoy it anew. In a pinch, I used waxed dental floss (couldn't get waxed thread fast enough via delivery) and it worked great!
that was the smoothest most seamless audible add ive ever seen!
I bound 141 pages and it lays flat much better than any other method I tried... Took me like 3 days, but the result was satisfying.
How did you manage not to make the thread get knots? I want to bind 42 pages but the thread is so long i can't make a loop. Thank you!
@@ginalina2731 A combination of things, actually! I cut each thread very long and individually, then I tied each end to a cheap dental threader (instead of an actual needle) and did all the strings between each page before moving on. I let all the string hang over the edge of a table, to keep the all organized. I also used very thin and durable thread, because a thicker thread would end up making the whole thing too thick towards the binding. For as many pages as I did, I recommend thin jewelry thread or a thin kite thread.
As far as I remember, I didn't make a knot on every single page and made sure that each thread went completely "tight" before moving to the next one.
I finally finished! I decided to make a homemade baby book. In retrospect I should have chosen a different binding method, but I stuck to it and I love the result! It's going to be a sweet keepsake.
I want to make a nice gift for my pa, so I'll make him a large decorated photo album hybrid using this stitch. This is going to be an absolutely lovely gift❤
I love the slow detail you take to explain the steps. Super easy to follow and understand. Love the book. Thanks for the great tutorials.
Thank you for this tutorial! I just used it to bind the instructions of a sewing pattern I'm sending out as part of a pattern swap. Mine doesn't look quite as even as yours yet, but it's definitely serviceable and much nicer than any store bought option. That the result lays open perfectly flat is a big plus for this use. I can definitely see myself applying this to more projects.
Bless you for this. I've been wanting to make a coptic with miscellaneous papers I've collected and definitely didn't want to fold (and ruin) them to make signatures.
Some notes from someone who is a beginner book-binder: I used this to create a custom book for my mother (story/cookbook). Taping the edges the was definitely helpful for reinforcing, but making a video on how to do this so it could be even/not wrinkle would have been helpful because this was easily the ugliest part. I had to punch the holes page by page with this method though, which took longer but it was okay. You DO NOT need 6 needles. Would 6 needles have saved me time? Absolutely. However, because this is an open stitch I was able to use one needle and just move it to each thread each time I bound a page. Very doable and it still came out beautiful. I also did not estimate the amount of thread accurately, not sure why but I cut pieces wayyy too long, so just be mindful. Too much was definitely better than not having enough though.
So this is 'lay-flat' binding anyone can do? You're a queen, thank you so much!
Wow! I think you've just saved my mom's 1953 copy of The Joy of Cooking cookbook! It was falling apart anyway so I pulled it apart to scan it in on a flatbed scanner. It's only 1,023 pages, including the index. I tried to put it in a 3-ring binder, but that's not working because I can't find one the right size or depth. Thanks a bunch! You're awesome!
Nice! That is a lot of pages to sew but I'm sure it will look awesome when finished!
Thank you so much for sharing your talents. I went OCD about making my own sketch book a couple of nights ago. Then spent more time than I care to admit looking for a non-folding, lay flat when open binding technique that didn't use adhesive. Yes, It will take a lot of time and patience, but it's a labor of love after all. Many thanks again.
My daughter is taking a lot of art classes at college and bringing home and lot of projects. This method seems like it would be great to display yet contain them. Thanks.
This is gonna be ideal for binding together the postcards that I've been keeping on the fridge. It's starting to look cluttered on there, but I like keeping the cards from friends and family.
I'm so glad I found you. I've wanted to make a book like this for ages. 💕💕
Thank you so much for sharing all these. You are the best. I always come to you when I want to learn something easily. Your description is perfectly clear!! Thank you from Greece!!🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
I tried kettle stitch for my loose sheets of notes, and I love it. Now I'm gonna try this... Just here to say THANK YOU. ❤️ stay happy and healthy :)
I am seriously thinking in trying the bookbinding, thanks for your tutorials, no doubt it would help me a lot.
Go for it!
Your instructions are always clear and easy to follow. Thank you so much for your many book binding instructions. I love binding books for my calligraphy work and you are always my go to.
thanks this is great! i bound my uni project, it took me 2 attempts because i'm an idiot and i used wool first! but about 9 hours later i'm done and it looks good! although yours is a lot neater! tip: DON'T USE WOOL
Ganz herzlichen Dank für dieses tolle und leicht verständliche Tutorial, mit Hilfe dieses Videos konnte ich ein wunderschönes Album zur Konfirmation meiner Tochter fertigstellen!!!
I'm using this to make a guest book for my cousin's wedding! I hope it looks great this will be my third book using your tutorials and they always turn out awesome.
This is great! I'm learning so I can teach my Dad for Father's Day; he's a photographer and I think it will do nicely for making a book of photographs.
Great tutorial! I had single book pages and wasn't sure how I could bind them and still open book flat. The book turned out well. Thanks for the video.
What a great teacher you are. I love that you show so many different ways of doing things. Thank you. 5 stars.
I used this to stitch together a bunch of chipboards to create a baby board book for my daughter and it worked perfectly!!
Thank you so much for this tutorial! I had a multipage calligraphy commission and did not know where to start on binding the single sheets. This video was just what I needed. It was easy to understand and implement. FYI, I used straight bookbinding needles--which was all I could find last minute. It required a bit of maneuvering, but was still doable. Thank you!
I really love the way the stitches are seen on the spine it looks super cool!
Very simple and easy tutorial and after watching this I realized that you could add a spine to this and before you add the back and front boards you probably could even glue some leather to them
I'm gonna use this to bind my journal for school! I really like typing rather than hand-writing it, but I wanted to hand in a physical copy, since long things don't look very nice on google docs. I'm gonna have some fun with this one... heh
Yes! Thank you for making this, it's exactly what I needed and you have done a great job providing clear instructions.
Great tutorial. Easy to do right away by following the video closely. Fun project during quarantine. Used this technique to bind my nephew a homemade coloring book. Used a tapestry needle and unwaxed embroidery thread as that it what I had on hand.
Thank you for a very beautifully made video which very clearly showed all the steps necessary for making a single sheet bound book. It allowed me to create a nice bound book of my watercolor sketches.
Great, comprehensive tutorial, thanks! I just finished a project using this method and it worked like a charm, thank you!
So I didn't have any news wax handy at home so instead I waxed my thread with a scented candle....seems to have worked just fine & smell pretty now too LOL! I absolutely am loving making my book, some thing so relaxing about handsewing anything.
Very clear instructions. I have found the solution I was looking for and at same time I have been practicing my English (lovely pronunciation).
Thank you very much for this video ! This was the first time i was biding a book and, thanks to your explanations, i made it very well (and at the beginning i thought that it would be a disaster, because i never bind a book before and i hadn't those needles and wax). I made a photo album with 8 pages for my sister's birthday. And all your videos are so cool and instructive !
First time trying bookbinding and used this method for my English project, it turned out great and it was super easy thanks to the directions!!! :D
Wow! I wish I knew how to do this with a previous project I had. Now I'm much more confident I can use this bookbinding process in the future!
Thank you for your video! I used it to make a book of postcards from our last trip. I love how it turned out! Thank you!
Thanks a lot! I was precisely looking for a lay-flat technique with single sheet paper, this is exactly it! ♥️
Awesome video! I'm gonna be making a scrapbook for my girlfriend for Mother's Day this year and I don't like modern scrapbooks. They just look like photo albums with no picture divisions. I'm gonna do it with thick, differently colored cardstock NON-folded (this was the first non-folded binding method I found), and keeping it old school with black picture corners! Thanks Sea Lemon!
Also, on that note, since I will be adding pictures, do you think I should add spacers between the pages?
Shadoweclipse13 I think you might be fine without adding spacers. The knots from the stitching actually add a small space between each page so it should be fine :) Thanks for checking out my video!
***** Awesome! Thanks for the quick reply!!
I was laying in bed last night and I think I decided to do my own cover as well. Might go get some fabric. Do you have any tutorials on doing the covers specifically?
Shadoweclipse13 I have a video on how to make your own book cloth with fabric - bit.ly/VBU6pI. If you want to see more tips/add-ons or methods, I have my book videos organized in three playlists:
Bookbinding Supplies, Substitutes & Tips - bit.ly/BindingTips
Bookbinding Methods & Stitches - bit.ly/BindingMethods
Bookmaking Projects - bit.ly/BookProjects
Good luck!
***** Thanks again!!!!
Very nice. I've made a coptic bound book from your tutorials. It turned out nice but I had to choose the paper carefully as I wanted the thickest I could while making sure it would fold into signatures. I never thought of single-page binding before, I will give this a try as I have some great thick hot-press w-color paper.
I'm making a storybook to go along with some dolls I made for a friend's daughter's birthday coming up and I'm using watercolor paper, so this is exactly what I needed :)
Thank you. This is very helpful. I do find the music very distracting, though. Love the different coloured threads. Great work.
Excellent video. Very clear and easy to follow. Thank you!
This such a clear and Informative video. I used it to put together a scrapbook for a special birthday and I cant get over how simple it was to do and your video to follow.
Thankyou so much for taking the time to make this video :)
This is excellent! I have watched several YT directions and yours is the very best one I have seen. Great job and this is how I am binding with my single page journals this year. Thank you so much for sharing.
Yay! Im going to use this to make a new sketch book that has multiple thicknesses and colors of paper! Im going to have black construction paper, thick smooth bristol, some normal sketching paper and possibly a rainbow with construction paper! Im so excited to do it :D
Thanks so much for posting this! I am going to use this method to bind the portfolio that I have to submit for my Masters degree application! I hope it will make me stand out from all the people who used a binding service!
+Krisanna Mazur I finished my portfolio and it looks amazing! Thanks for your awesome tutorial!
best tutorials of book binding in the world! thanks a lot!
You have saved me so much time for my book project for an illustration class!!!
Thank you for the tutorial!
Thank you for the tutorial. I want to make my own 'once upon a time' storybook and this bookbinding tutorial is perfect
I love this method for binding! Thank you so much for the video. You have helped me know how to bind and lay my pages flat so that I can continue to work on them. Thank you, thank you.
Oh, I have been waiting so long for such a tutorial. I mean single page binding. Thank you for sharing!
I just love your channel. Your videos are amazing quality, and so easy to follow!
Thanks a lot for sharing this method, I have some watercolour drawing from my travel in Canada and it’s help me to put them together!
This is exactly what I was looking for! Your mad skillz are impressive. Just got hooked up with the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, so I'll have access to a lot of tools that normal people can't afford to have. but your stuff is awesome and free and I don't need big tools, which they have at the MCBA if I ever want to use them.
Wow! Thank you so much for this tutorial! I was looking for the perfect sewing for a watercolor notebook! thaaanks!!
That is a gorgeous binding and a great tutorial! You should totally have a book deal or a TV show or something!
The tutorial is so clean! You gave me a huge solution! Thank you ♡
hey ! I just discovered your channel today, and I know this video is 5 years old, but if you want to make your hole in your paper bigger and make them easily, use a rubber or a piece of
polystyrene while your make your holes under your paper or your piece of cover, it makes everything easier ! (sorry if our already know this technique now in 2019 but it can help others :3 )
Thank you so much! This was my first time book binding and it came out better than I could have imagined! :D
That is brilliant, thank you. Your album looks fantastic with the different coloured threads as well.
I make my own paper and have been using the Japanese stab binding method to make up into albums, but this will give me another option for binding. (I'll be checking out the other single sheet binding tutorials as well :-)) The sheets I make are a little soft, so you addressed that problem nicely with the tape.
Thank you so much, for your time and hard work in producing these tutorials for us to use. For those of us in isolated/country areas, your tutorials are a huge help in learning something we wouldn't otherwise have access to.
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Thanks for your amazing tutorial! Despite the fact that it was my first experience with ever bookbinding, things went fairly well. I bound 40+ handpainted watercolour pages that had become farewell cards, into a book. I think that the thread I used must have been alot thinner than yours - your way of measuring how much thread was needed did not work for me and left me with about 3 times too much thread which was obviously a little difficult to manage as it would easily knot/tangle.. But that was my only hiccup.
Thank you so much,this is actual what I was looking for.
Thank you so much sea lemon for sharing this book binding technique. ....love you ....
I need a 9x12 inch sketchbook that's bound with mixed media paper for class- couldn't find one anywhere, so i decided to make my own! Sleeping for the night but in the morning i have to finish it- Your video will be much help :D
Thank you very much for your videos about sketchbook making! Finally i started to make my own sketchbooks instead of buying them!
this is so helpful!! i am creating a branding book for my class and my spreads are 9 x 22 which would be SO EXPENSIVE to print. so i wanted to print pages instead. i was worried japanese binding would look off because it didn’t lay flat but this is perfect!
My recent bought sketchbook's pages kept falling out so thank god this tutorial exists 🙏✨️
This is what I want to find for my books! Thank you for your work.
If I want to bind my single sheets but not incude the board because for the board I want to make it as my hard cover, like on your video "How to make hard cover: case binding", is it possible? Or any suggestion because I really want to mix both of them. And I'd love to say thankyou for all of your videos because it's really helping me.
Thanks for the tutorial helps me with ideas how to make my DIY wedding guest book. 👍👍👍
This is why I love this channel!
A great amount of patience is also required
I liked the idea, thanks for sharing different methods, you're the best!
Making my self a second sketchbook using your tutorials. Thank you soooo much!
Thank you so much for this video! I've been looking for a way to make an A3 paper size graphic design portfolio and this is the best option I've found so far :) With some addons of mine it's gonna be perfect
I like your video, you are so patient and offer a lot of suggestions. Thank you for posting!
Your videos are so, so, so fantastic. Thank you so much for doing this!
Oh shoot, i really like to see you flip through the book to see what the stitches look like on the inside. For a watercolor book that is the most important part for me. I like this idea of using clear tape for reinforcement... Im thinking of doing one with tape around the other 3 sides as well to act as a permanent frame of white around the paintings. What kind of tape did you use? I'm afraid packing tape would turn yellow after a few years...
As always, love your content!
great,,, i think after watching you do this several times i think i could get the hang of it..thank you
It worded well. But I had too much string. I measured the width then multiplied by my nine pages but had it at two metres per string, it looks great. A hand made book for my granddaughter in Canada. So far from Tasmania in this Covid time. 🌹
It is an interesting and possible method for binding single sheets. Hower I guess that the main inconvenient is the thickness of the thread and of the duct tape used to reinforce the sheets, but I'm afraid there could be no solution unless one wants to bind single sheets using a perfect binding technique both traditional or milled paperback with chord reinforcement.
Excellent, clear instrutions. Love putting my artwork together in this way
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Can't wait to try this method. TFS!!!
youre just so so so so awesome!!!!! i`ve watched like so many of your bookbinding tutorials and i made a hardcover. it turned out so cool.(ppl wont believe i made it i`m just saying) i really need your help this time. i need to make a file folder and file in like 10 sheets i just wanted something-not-with-a--pocket and uncommon. i need to submit this project in 2 weeks from today.
loads of hopes from you craft queen!!!!
Sea Lemon you're the BEST!
thank you. your work and tutorials are inspiring me.