A great video all you book artists will enjoy!

Many of my books have gone on sale!

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The front of this notebook features one of my TTV photographs of the autumn view from a MetroNorth train along the Hudson River line.

TTV stands for "through the viewfinder," in this case, that of a vintage, square format camera. This gives the images a retro feel and a variance in focus that isn't common to straightforward digtal photography.

- 6.25" x 6.25" (16 cm x 16 cm)
- 200 pages.
- Bound with turquoise blue waxed Irish linen thread.


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Unlikely as it seems, do any of you know of a more active community for bookbinders/makers? Not just regarding the artistic/crafty aspect -which I know gets it's attention from a pretty dynamic community at handmadebooks -, but more centered on artisan bindery and conservation work.

Mayhap on Dreamwidth, which is supposed to be a more artistic place?

Thank you!

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I had love to hear your opinions on them! :"D

Sharing pictures of some books that I have made:


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Rather than making signatures I have been experimenting with loose single sheets. My first attempt looked good but fell apart as soon as the glue dried: I glued the edges of the loose sheets and glued the sheets to the spine. As soon as I opened the book, pages starting falling out.

My second attempt included a semi-stab binding arrangement: I sewed the loose sheets together in four different places - like stab binding but without threading from hole to hole. And I glued the sheets together again. Then I made sure the hinge was glued and securely tightened to the sheets on the edge. And added endpapers. This book is about 100 pages.

My only complaint is that the book doesn't open flat and I'm wary of opening it too far in case the glue wears off and the pages fall out again - unlikely since they are sewn together. So, my question: is there a simple or easier way to glue single loose sheets? What do you all do?

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The mixed paper journal is coptic bound and filled with over 130 pages. The journal measures approximately 6" X 1" X 6".</div>

I'm so sorry for the mess :/ I was sure I was just updating a post and it turned out to be four separate posts :/ sorry for any inconveniences on your layout.

Usually my books have some story to go with it. I think that every book deserves a story.
So this book is called "A Star Caught By A Dream" and it's story goes as follows:

There once lived a little star. She liked to listen to the waves of the ocean and to secretly watch her reflection in the water. She was a beautiful little star just like many other beautiful little stars. She was waiting for a Debute Ball in the middle of August. During the ball little stars could take off from the sky and follow their dreams.
However, on the day when the Debute Ball was supposed to take place, the little star got sick. She had to lie in bed with a scarf around her neck. The doctor didn’t want to hear anything about dances or following dreams.
The little star got really upset as it knew that there would be no other chance for her to look for her dream. She would have to watch the world from the skies for the rest of her life.
So every night she watched her reflection in the ocean when one October night she decided to reach for the water. The water was far away, so the little star had to reach hard and suddenly she felt herself falling into the ocean.
That’s how the little star was caught by her dream.









It's on sale on my etsy store

Hello! I'm announcing the opening of my online shop, BoundenStudio!

Here's a shot of one of the books currently available:




This leather bound, hardcover, coptic stitch sketchbook/journal features a print transfer of a meditating cyclops kitten! All my other books are also leather and suede, all stuff I've salvaged from thrift stores and dumpster dives - the pages are quality artists' paper.

I'm very new to being a seller of my own work and would appreciate any and all feedback and/or critique, of my work AND my photos/descriptions/wording/etc.

Again, BoundenStudio!

Thanks in advance for looking!

What kind of paper do you guys use for the actual pages of books? I want to make a planner, but cardstock is too heavy and printer paper is too light. I can't find anything reasonably priced inbetween, like around 60lb or 70lb weight. The stuff I've been finding is around $50 or even more for a ream. D:

Edit: Thank you all for your replies! I found an awesome art store around here that gives 10% off to students and they have tons of paper! Yay!

Hi All!
I'm new to this so bare with me.. I'm sorry the images are quite large.... Hope you guys enjoy this book... I made it after I had my wisdom teeth extracted last year... By the way this folds up :)

So here's D.A.'s Bible all recovered and finished. :) This is a picture of what was handed to me. Yeah. She loved that thing to death. Restoration and finished product under the cut.

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A lot of gluing, folding, clamping later (yeah, the cloth didn't pull as tight as I'd have liked, I'm looking into other methods for next time):

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I made some more books and am starting to get the hang of things I think!
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This was made during a workshop. It has 8 sheets of paper for 28 pages and two endpapers. Blank notebook. The cover was made from an old T-shirt that had seen better days.

This is my first time trying to make a book and I really like how it turned out!  I used glittered cardstock and ribbon for the outside and plain white paper for the inside.







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More pictures and details at my journal HERE.
I also edited my post about the Gypsy Book I made to add one last picture now that that book is finished. You can see that HERE.
Thanks ♥

I seem to remember seeing altered books here before so I hope this is OK. :) I made this for my library's altered book competition (if you live in Baltimore you have plenty of time to enter - I had to submit mine ridiculously early because I will be on vacation). I'm halfway pleased with this - I like the ideas but due to time constraints I couldn't work them as much as I would have liked. When they return the book I can go back and re-work. :)



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There are a few more pics at the flickr set.
New friends always welcome and feel free to check out my blog. ;)