#BookBinding

Licho

@licho.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy

13 minutes ago

Klej z mąki pszennej to w sumie niesamowity wynalazek. Cienki karton z mrożonej pizzy przerobił w gruby karton, którego teraz użyję do oprawienia książki. Wystarczyło nałożyć warstwę tego kleju na zadrukowaną stronę , skleić z drugim kwadratem zadrukowaną stroną i położyć pod czymś ciężkim […]

梅緒/綿井びょう

@umeo9030.bsky.social

10 hours ago

【ない本】
かたちあるともだち
【ない本や】
minne.com/@flat-minne

#ない本や #手製本 #bookbinding

Mutant Snow Golem

@monstersnowgoon.bsky.social

17 hours ago

A book, “A Princess of Mars” by Edgar Rice Burroughs, sits with it’s cover mercilessly ripped off as another, probably crappier, cover is in the process of being bound

Tears along the binding of a poorly-bound bible, this is probably sacrilege.

Starting a new hobby, will I stick with it? Who knows?! I start out with a few books I don’t give a crap about and give myself permission to suck (because I definitely suck at this so far), 2nd pic is a bible I found on the street, I had to rip out the book of revelations to make it fit
#bookbinding

ThanksMister

@thanksmister.bsky.social

1 day ago

A sewn board binding of The Perilous Wilds. Still thinking of a way to label this little tome. #TTRPGs #OSR #DnD #bookbinding

Georgina Toland

@georginatoland.bsky.social

1 day ago

Spines of my Sweet Pipes alto recorder books, along with my copy of G. Rooda “95 Dexterity Exercises and Dances for Recorders in F,” and my brown journal that I use to keep track of my progress. (The journal is sewn, but not by me.)

Close up of the spine I sewed for the “Sweet Pipes Recorder Book: Alto Recorder.”

A small wooden book cradle with a metal plate guide for punching holes with my awl.

#Bookbinding repair on my Sweet Pipes #alto #recorder book. Let me tell you how awesome it is to own a book cradle! It made poking holes easy-peasy.

@facelessmindao3.bsky.social

1 day ago

good lord she thicc 😳
#bookbinding

梅緒/綿井びょう

@umeo9030.bsky.social

1 day ago

【ない本】
編む
【ない本や】
minne.com/@flat-minne

#ない本や #手製本 #bookbinding

Skye.Aeon

@skyeaeon.bsky.social

2 days ago

My text block pressed and glued up, the linen tapes hanging off the sides

Rounded and tapped back spine of my text block

My text block leading edge trimmed, mull applied to spine, and card stock on spine sitting displayed on my desk mat

Test fit of the front and back covers , looks good!

Got the back all rounded and tapped in shaped, and the covers cut and test fitted. Last thing I need to do is pick out my fabric for the covers 🔥
Stoked to get it all finished up!

#books #bookbinding #sewing #art #artbook #sketchbook

La Leipsig

@laleipsig.eurosky.social

2 days ago

Green hand binded book A7

On a bookbinding spree. This is a tiny A7 size book. The outsides are recycled covers from old books.
#belgianbinding #bookbinding #handmade

梅緒/綿井びょう

@umeo9030.bsky.social

2 days ago

【ない本】
拾いに

【ない本や】
minne.com/@flat-minne

#ない本や #手製本 #bookbinding

HattyTheFox

@hattythefox.bsky.social

3 days ago

Easy Bookbinding Tutorial | How To Make A Simple Japanese Sketchbook YouTube video by HattyTheFox

I made a bookbinding tutorial! If you’re interested in making your own Japanese style sketchbook, click the link to watch it on my YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4hR...
#art #bookbinding #illustration #sketchbooks #japanesestabbinding #japanesebookbinding #handmade #nature

梅緒/綿井びょう

@umeo9030.bsky.social

3 days ago

【ない本】
からっぽがふってくる

【ない本や】
minne.com/@flat-minne

#ない本や #手製本 #bookbinding

AndaliteBandit

@andalitebandit.bsky.social

3 days ago

Could be a neat technique to use for endpapers or cover art backgrounds! #bookbinding

Puurrrito

@purrarts.bsky.social

3 days ago

I forgot to share this one :o

I hand stitched a sketchbook for a friend as a xmas gift with watercolor paper and handpainted canvas boards as the covers 🧡

#PurrArts #Traditional #Art #TraditionalArt #Sketchbook #Handmade #Crafts #Bookbinding #Centipedes

Puurrrito

@purrarts.bsky.social

3 days ago

Finally got this done!!! I'm still going to make more sketchbooks too!

#PurrArts #Traditional #Art #TraditionalArt #Sketchbook #Handmade #Crafts #Bookbinding #Graffiti

Chels Kep❤️

@chelstorm.bsky.social

4 days ago

A 3 inch long needle with the top half inch bent to 45 degrees. It shows book signatures zigzag stitched together with the needle catching three stitches at a time in a horizontal zigzag stitch across the binding of the book spine.

Continuing my bookbinding adventures, hand sewing my signatures together. I'm using a curved upholstery needle. It can be found in the African haircare section for weaves. It's cheap and easy to find. Keep bookbinding accessible!

#booksky #booktok #bookbinding #howlsmovingcastle #diy #craftoftheday

Shannon

@ashokansleeps.bsky.social

4 days ago

Final book cover is now done. The trilogy is complete🙌

#bookbinding

梅緒/綿井びょう

@umeo9030.bsky.social

4 days ago

【ない本】
これは「空」のかたち

【ない本や】
minne.com/@flat-minne
#ない本や #手製本 #bookbinding

AndaliteBandit

@andalitebandit.bsky.social

4 days ago

::open-mouthed drooling:: #bookbinding #handbinding #fanbinding #zines #papercrafting

Cathy A Cee

@makerbee60.bsky.social

5 days ago

A handmade book using handmade sage green handmade paper for the cover . Using a heart shaped pamphlet stitch for the binding.

Heart Binding #ShowHeart
#hearts #bookbinding #handmadebooks #artyear

Salem Drenay

@salemdrenay.bsky.social

5 days ago

Since this is a pokemon fanfic, I wanted the book to look like a pokedex and drew the whole cover in three hours. 10 years old Salem would go crazy seeing what I do now ^^
"Zephyr & Riff" written by Relic8

#bookbinding

梅緒/綿井びょう

@umeo9030.bsky.social

5 days ago

【ない本】
黒は待っている

【ない本や】
minne.com/@flat-minne
#ない本や #手製本 #bookbinding

Misty Granade

@misty.granades.com

6 days ago

A flat lay photo of the five books I made in March. There’s a turquoise book-fabric covered Australian Piano Hinge Book, two black covered accordion fold sketch books, a small eco dyed (tan colored with hints of blue and orange) Hungarian Map Fold Book, and a three signature pamphlet stitched sketchbook/idea book with copies of my own art in it - the cover says creative resistance.

Here’s the flat lay shot of the five books I made in March. The alt text has more descriptions of each book.
#ThinkingAboutMaking #MakingThings #InHerStudio #ArtJournal #ArtBook #BookMaking #BookBinding #ArtYear #OnlyBeautifulThings

梅緒/綿井びょう

@umeo9030.bsky.social

6 days ago

【ない本】
てのひらに掬う

【ない本や】
minne.com/@flat-minne
#ない本や #手製本 #bookbinding

v_i_o_l_a

@v-i-o-l-a.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy

6 days ago

How to Make a Japanese Accounting Ledger (daifuku cho) _Conservation assistant**Aveyah Craver** gives us some tips and tricks on traditional bookbinding in this exciting conservation-centric blog!_ I recently made an enclosure for a set of three, blank, Japanese accounting ledgers. The books were bound in a style that I had never seen before, and I took some time to inspect how it had been done. The construction is a variation of pamphlet stitch binding, and it is a good option for someone’s first book binding project. Some commonly used bookmaking terms that are helpful for beginner bookbinders are: _folios, quartos, signatures, and bookbinding_. A _folio_ is a single sheet of paper that is folded in half to create two leaves and four pages, while a _quarto_ is folded in half once more to create four leaves and eight pages. _Signature_ can have a variety of meanings, but for the sake of clarity, in this tutorial, I am going to define a _signature_ as a gathering of pages. _Bookbinding_ is the method in which signatures are bound together. A pamphlet stitch book is a single-signature book. Once you nest your pages together into a signature, you poke two or more holes through the fold at the center, sew some string through the holes, and tie a knot connecting the beginning and end of the string. These Japanese accounting books from the Lilly Library’s collection are essentially four pamphlet stitch books glued together. ## **Materials** To make this style of book, you will need the following: * 16 sheets of 8.5×11” paper * 2 sheets of 6×4.25” card stock * A cutting mat * A box cutter or _Exacto_ knife * A ruler * A pencil * A bone folder * Glue and a brush * Some waxed string (preferably two different thicknesses) * An embroidery or bookbinding needle * A pair of scissors * Optional: an awl ## **Step 1: Folding Your Paper** 1. 2. The first step in replicating these books is folding the quartos. To make a quarto fold, take a sheet of paper and fold it in half lengthwise, and then fold it in half again along its width. The signatures in the Japanese ledgers I examined are very thick, containing dozens of signature pages. I am using printer paper, which is thicker than the paper in the original books, so I am sticking to four quartos per signature. Once you have folded the sixteen pages into quartos, group them into four signatures of four quartos each. ## **Step 2: Creating Holes** 3. 4. The next step is creating holes in preparation for sewing. Another characteristic of the original ledgers is that the maker did not poke holes through the signatures with an awl but instead cut the paper along the spine-edge. Considering the thickness of the original signatures, slicing was easier than poking holes, but because my signatures are smaller, I can choose between slicing the pages or using an awl. I chose to slice the pages, but if you would rather use an awl, just poke holes in the same places I set up my cuts. I made two cuts along the spine of each of my signatures at 1 1/8 and 3 1/8 inches. ## **Step 3: Sewing** 5. 6. The next step is to sew. I sewed two signatures with the thinner thread from the inside, and two with the thicker thread from the outside. For the signatures with the thin thread, I opened the signature to the center and poked my threaded needle through one cut to the outside of the signature. 7. 8. ## Then from behind the signature, I poked my threaded needle through the second cut, back to the inside center of the signature. I tied the beginning and end of the thread together and trimmed the excess, only leaving a short tail. 9. 10. For the signatures sewn with the thicker thread, I started from the outside of the signature, poked my thread through to the inside center of the signature, and poked it through the second cut back to the outside of the signature. I gave the thicker thread extra length so I could replicate the large knot on the spine of the original ledger. This thread was also too large for my needle, so I used an awl to help push it through the cuts. ## **Step 4: Glueing** 11. 12. The next step is to glue the cardstock to the signatures with the thinner thread. Your cardstock should be cut to the same size as your folded signatures with enough extra length to wrap around the back about ¾ of an inch. Use a signature to mark where to fold your cardstock and score it with your bone folder. 13. 14. Use this fold as a mark for where to apply the glue and attach the cardstock to the signature. This completes the front and back covers of the book. The last step is to glue the outside and inside signatures together. 15. 16. The last step is to glue the outside and inside signatures together. 17. 18. Again, I used the folded cardstock as a guide for where to apply the glue, and I estimated a half inch of space along the spine for attaching the two halves of the book together. ## **Conclusion** _Completed Japanese Accounting Ledger or**daifuku cho** (大福帳, “Great Fortune Book”), which were traditionally used for travel diaries, guest registers at inns, and merchants’ recordkeeping (Ikegami 68). The daifuku cho was commonly used in the Edo period of Japan (1603-1868). _ _The daifuku cho is strung together and tied with a long cord. Historically, this enabled merchants to fling their ledgers into wells in the event of a fire (which was tragically quite common in crowed Japanese towns). The implementation of the cord allowed the ledger to be retrieved without damaging the ink or paper (Ikegami 68)._ And that is the completed book! I was interested in making this style of book partially because I had never seen it before, and partially because I like that this style of book was designed to be hung from the cords in the back. ## **References** The books I examined to learn this style of binding are the Japanese accounting ledgers at the Lilly Library, under the call number HF5680 .J37. Kōjirō Ikegami. _Japanese Bookbinding: Instructions From a Master Craftsman_. New York: Weatherhill, 1986. Z270.J3 I3713 1986

"How to Make a Japanese Accounting Ledger (daifuku cho)" @ IU Libraries Blogs:
blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/lilly/2026/03/09/how-to-...

tath

@thathiplass.bsky.social

6 days ago

MORE LITTLE HAND-BOUND NOTEBOOKS!!! and still, my paper stash feels barely depleted

#linocut #bookbinding

Matthew Beckham

@matthewbeckham.bsky.social

1 week ago

Been working on a special book project, and I've also been filming the entire process with plans on making a long video showing how it was made - not sure why I have to make things that are already difficult and time consuming even more difficult and time consuming lol

#bookbinding

@byopiapress.bsky.social

1 week ago

In celebration of the 150th anniversary of its first publication, Byopia Press presents a DIY edition of 'The Hunting of the Snark'.
Instructions in two posts. Find the first here:

byopiapress.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/t...

#ByopiaPress #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #BookBinding #BookArts

梅緒/綿井びょう

@umeo9030.bsky.social

1 week ago

【ない本】
まだ、ない。

【ない本や】
minne.com/@flat-minne
#ない本や #手製本 #bookbinding

Birdie's Bindings

@birdiesbindings.bsky.social

1 week ago

Take a look at the exciting acquisitions for the last week or so!
Follow for updates on what I do with the new papers.

#bookbinding #books #paper #artisan