Happy Monday!! I was (so lucky) to be able to attend a course this Sunday in Stockholm on bookbinding, hard cover case binding. It was taught by Toby…a British guy you studied book binding and paper conservancy. It was a long day…11am – 5pm….there are many steps to making a book and he taught us with out any short cuts. Well, he did all of the preliminary cutting and measuring, which did save us a HUGE amount of time. But we used tapes and mulls and special glues and japanese papers. His multi-use book binding clamp, holding and tape sewing contraption was a work of art itself and he makes them by hand….I was really impressed with the whole class! Now, what oh what to draw in my handmade little red book???

This was at your seat on arrival

There was glue and brushes too

Starting to stitch together the signatures.

Putting cloth on the hardback cover

Changing around the bookbinding contraption to a different configuration

Gluing the Spine

Glue drying

Trimming

Final squeeze…..

There is a close up of the “headband”

inside corners

oh, what to fill it with?

Dexter, who knows not to touch my little red book!