Bookbinding Links Roundup
When I find great bookbinding resources online, I tag them in del.icio.us, but I thought it would be useful to others if I put the best ones in one place here, just this once, since I tagged most of them before setting up my automated blog posts from del.icio.us to this site. Here’s a roundup of the top 20 links I’ve collected so far (not including my own tutorial or photos, though some links may have shown up previously in my blog posts).
-
Making a Casebound Book
The best, most detailed online bookbinding tutorial I’ve seen (including, of course, my own).
-
tobycraig: Book Assembly Photo-Journal
A goofy little photo-journal of the book assembly of my stuff for the upcoming MoCCA show.
-
Do-It-Yourself Book Press
An amazingly detailed bookbuilding resource (via Craftzine).
-
Book Binding Books
Free online books about bookbinding.
-
Three-Layer Star Book : DIY Network
Deb took a bookbinding class and ended up taking apart all her books at home to figure out how they were assembled. In this segment, Deb makes a three-layer star-shaped book.
-
Cafe-Kreativ: Bucher binden
Great roundup of online bookbinding how-tos.
-
Coptic Bookbinding How-To
DIY blank journals.
-
Fun and Easy How to Guide to Binding Your Own Paperback Books At Home … FAST
I’ll show you a quick and dirty book binding technique you can use to turn your ebook into a real book with about 5 minutes worth of effort.
-
Lay-Flat Bookbinding
It seems like you can either get a cool cover OR nice paper (suitable for use with a nice pen) OR a nice lay flat, durable binding. I finally realized that to get all three requirements, I would have to try my hand at making my own notebooks.
-
one shot tutorial – a photoset on Flickr
Wanna make a neat, fun zine that only uses one sheet of paper? Of course you do.
-
Make Blank Books, Sketch Books or Repair Paperback Books with a Simple Japanese Bookbinding Technique — a Tutorial
Make or repair books with this easy technique.
-
the0phrastus: Simple Book Binding
I’ve been doing some simple binding for my own writing about a year now, and I think I have it down to an easy four step process, printing, drilling, sewing and wrap-up.
-
Douglas W. Jones on Bookbinding
This tutorial introduction is aimed primarily at those who wish to preserve the content of old pulp paperbacks by photocopying them onto archival paper and then binding the results using an archival binding technique, the long-stitch.
-
Pennant Publishing
I found a book in the local library which taught me the following method of producing a paperback from separate sheets of A4 or A5. I reckon it is suitable for volumes up to up to 2cm thick.
-
Bookmaking
How to make a simple hardcover book.
-
Board Book
How to make a children’s board book.
-
DIY: reconstructed book
What an awesome & useful way to preserve the great cover art of those vintage, hardcover books, that we treasured as kids. I picked one of my favorites, Nancy Drew & turned it in to this fun, mini, journal/sketchbook.
-
The Bonefolder
An e-journal for the bookbinder and book artist.
-
Handbound
A bookbinding blog with some beautiful specimens.
-
Hand Bookbindings: Plain and Simple to Grand and Glorious
Books as works of art, from the twelfth century to the twentieth.
Got any great online resources I’ve missed? Leave links in the comments!
UPDATE
As a bonus, here are some great finds from the comments and links followed from them:
-
TJBookarts
Welcome to my Book Arts site. Please feel free check out the information pages and tutorials.
-
The Book Arts Forum
This forum is dedicated to all forms of bookbinding and book arts.
-
Magazine Binding for Leathercrafters
The method I developed and describe here, is completely my own and not traditional at all. It works best for binding magazines that consist of single (or multiple) signatures.
Thanks for reading and sharing, and keep ’em coming!
leahpeah 9:43 pm on March 20, 2007 Permalink | Log in to Reply
hey – this is great, brian! thanks! so many fun books to try.
Sonja 1:25 am on March 21, 2007 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Oh, thanks for linking my website! I’ll link yours too soon 🙂
Sonja from Germany
Sanjoli 2:43 am on March 21, 2007 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Wow. Lovely books!
Brian Sawyer 7:14 am on March 21, 2007 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Sonja: You already have. 🙂
Jackie 10:18 am on March 21, 2007 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Brian,
Thanks for this great list of links.
Just wanted to let you know that I have an bunch of free downloadable bookbinding tutorials over on my site at http://www.tjbookarts.com. Please check them out.
Jackie
Brian Sawyer 10:23 am on March 21, 2007 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Jackie, thanks for stopping by and sharing your great links. Bookmarking your page now!
em 10:35 am on March 21, 2007 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Brian,
Thank you for this great resource.
Several years ago, I was speaking at B & N and they were willing to let me bring in my self-bound books. I had attended my local book-binding and calligraphy guild and would have loved to have my books self-crafted that way, but for this ‘commercial topic’, it was not appropriate or possible.
So, I chose Abico’s very unique ‘clamp-style’ metal spiral bindings, got their machine and spent my creative-effort on the unique, enticing cover (and of course, the books contents, too).
I was frustrated when I was seeing my books at the University Bookstores which carried them, as on the shelf, this binding does not provide a readable spine.
There, I also saw a few other commercially-bound books which had a “new” form (then) where spiral bindings had the outer-diameter of the spiral wrapped-over and connected to front and back cover (there’s undoubtedly a business name for this binding … do you know it?). This provided a place for the title to be on the spine and seen when books were on the shelf, yet the book remained capable of being fully-flat when opened.
Can you shed any light about how to make this binding or specific sites which might be helpful?
I also hope that you will visit my blog, as its information is for everyone … either for treatment or for prevention!
http://diabetesdietdialogue.wordpress.com
Best to all,
Em
Edward Champion’s Return of the Reluctant » Roundup 1:39 pm on March 21, 2007 Permalink | Log in to Reply
[…] Brian Sawyer has some exceedingly helpful bookbinding links. […]
Handy list of bookbinding links « Charlottesville Words 2:20 pm on March 21, 2007 Permalink | Log in to Reply
[…] 21st, 2007 · No Comments Someday I want to try bookbinding again, and this list of bookbinding links from Brian Sawyer is one more good reason to get the kit back […]
TJBookarts»Blog Archive » It’s Friday… 9:30 am on March 23, 2007 Permalink | Log in to Reply
[…] Sawyer has an awesome link list of bookbinding tutorials. He also has a great beginner tutorial of his own. Check it […]
leahpeah : Blog Archive » Tony Makes A Stool (and don’t think we didn’t say that about a million times…) 3:56 pm on April 2, 2007 Permalink | Log in to Reply
[…] Next we’re going to make cameras out of Altoid containers or make a book. […]
Arpi Shively 6:29 am on April 6, 2007 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I just stumbled on your site – I’m an Armenian ex-Londoner living in a small mountain town in Andalucia, southern Spain (by way of Washington DC and the Chesapeake Bay), and I write for a paper here called The Olive Press. You have a beautiful site and a great skill. And now I know where Westford is – looks magical.
I will send your site on to a friend here, a very fine jeweller whose father was a distinguished Scottish book illustrator and I think an amateur binder too. I wish you well with all your projects and plans.
Kind regards,
Arpi Shively
You are cordially invited to visit my blog site, Andalucid, and at my partner’s gallery of Andalucia/Spain photography at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fredshively
spiral binder 12:29 pm on June 29, 2007 Permalink | Log in to Reply
spiral binder
Hi. Thanks for the good read.
Brian Sawyer’s bookbinding links round-up 8:01 am on July 12, 2007 Permalink | Log in to Reply
[…] Bookbinding links […]
mary 10:15 pm on August 5, 2007 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Brian.
I found this website http://www.periodfinebindings.com and thought you might like to check out what REAL bookbinding is all about.
Kind regards
Mary
denis 6:33 am on August 13, 2007 Permalink | Log in to Reply
hello, you could check this bookbindingforum.com .
thanks
keep on the good work
denis
Erinzam News » Blog Archive » Bookbinding Resources 3:51 am on December 13, 2007 Permalink | Log in to Reply
[…] are a variety of online resources as well. Brian Sawyer has a great collection of bookbinding links here. These include everything from thorough tutorials to inspirations. Even more links are available at […]
flyleafbooks 2:26 pm on January 22, 2008 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hey! Just browsing online for new websites on Book Arts. I’m kinda doing the same thing you are except I include Lesson Plans because I’m an art educator… I’ll be sure to link you on my Blogroll. If you see anything you like on my site, feel free to spread the word (and images) about it here on your website.
K Hodges
Dinosaurs in Socks! 2:26 pm on April 17, 2008 Permalink | Log in to Reply
[…] April, 2008 at 7:24 pm (Uncategorized) Bookbinding Links Roundup « Brian Sawyer: Bookbinding Links […]
tulibri 5:06 am on July 12, 2008 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi Brian, another great source is http://www.outofbinding.com. Carmencho Arregui is one of the shining stars of contemporary bookbinding, and she presents several of her own binding creations, including tutorials. A gem of a website.
richard norman 5:55 am on July 10, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hi
I would like to put our own site up as reccomended viewing. It has 10 free bookbinding manuals, plus interesting content. We also sell a range of learn at home DVD tutorials plus very good deals on leather and traditional wooden equipment.
edenworkshops.com
Richard
richard norman 12:54 pm on October 6, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Pop over and have a visit, and you will see we are in the mood for bookbinding.
Richard
A Visual Reference: Bookbinding | Emily!Duong 4:43 pm on December 13, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
[…] Brian Sawyer’s list of book binding tutorials […]
lay flat book binding | Blog about Books 8:51 am on April 15, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
[…] Bookbinding Links Roundup В« Brian Sawyer Mar 20, 2007 … Lay-Flat Bookbinding. It seems like you can either get a cool cover OR nice paper (suitable for use … […]
paul-thomson 8:35 am on April 6, 2014 Permalink | Log in to Reply
The past few months, my Grandson and I have been working on a small website called iBookBinding (http://www.ibookbinding.com). Through this website we hope to pass some of my (sometimes questionable) knowledge onto others who might be interested in starting down a similar career path or simply those with an interest in the book arts.
I take a great deal of time to write each post and ensure that it provides the most comprehensive information possible without any ‘waffle’. My Grandson also works very hard in converting my sketches into digital images for use in the tutorials, to which I think he does an excellent job.
If you have a spare minute, would you mind taking the time to review our site and consider us for inclusion as a resource on this post?