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Layman's Guide to Book-Binding
Published: 2010-03-29 22:52:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 45368; Favourites: 879; Downloads: 6931
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Download, unzip, and double click the file labeled "index.htm" to view the tutorial!Quick note: petty much everything in this tutorial uses technical terms, since I am not and probably never will be a professional book-binder and don't know the real terms for most things myself.
This tutorial includes:
- a tool list
- what to plan for
- advice for choosing materials
- all about soft covers (pros, cons, how to make them)
- all about hard covers (pros, cons, how to make them)
- FIVE binding methods
- and even more!
I hope you find this helpful
This file will be continually updated as I get better/new photos to add, or learn better ways to do things.v. 1.0
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Thank you for the DD- I hope everybody finds this useful! As a quick note, I cannot possibly thank everybody who commented and fav'd individually, so I'll say it here- thank you all!
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Comments: 96
Thank you thank you. I am just getting into bookbinding and this helps so much
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Thank you, thank you, thank you
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I've always been interested in book binding and this seems a really simple explanation on how to do it. Thanks for the guide!
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I am just now embarking on the great adventure of binding a book (for a dear friend of mine) and I found the information you offered REALLY interesting and potentially helpful. Thank you for your awesomeness.
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Thank you so much for this! I look forward to some binding this summer. <3
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Great! Always searched for something like this 
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Thank you for sharing this ! Beautifully explained.
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Amazing! Thank you, I will have to try this when I get a chance
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You're absolutely welcome!
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Thank you for making this tutorial and resource available on DA. I used it to make my first book as an accessory to my LARP character. [link]
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You're very welcome! Thank you for using it
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This tutorial will be featured in this week's Art Friday Post on Wolfish Written [01 July]: [link]
I hope you don't mind.
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cool cant wait to read this i have sevral books that are 100 years old or more that need rebinding
Paul
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oh geez. Don't take this tutorial as a legit, perfect way of binding books. I am not a bookbinder. For the sake of the books, either have a professional or learn from somebody who knows exactly what they're doing! I am very flattered though. Thank you!
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ya well im pretty good at doing things of a technical nature all ready it first im not compleatly un familure with book binding it really donsent look that hard to do and im a vay percise person no worrys i wouldint do any thing to hurt my books thanks thoe for the heads up
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Being a creeper? not so awesome.
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This is fantastic! I have to make myself a spellbook for LARP anyway.
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Thanks! I have forwarded this to the other parents in my daughter's kindergarten. We are always looking for ideas for artisan crafts to raise money for the school.
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Wow, I never would have imagined this guide would actually see such use- good luck to you!
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Sounds very informative- I once had a go at binding a book, but didn't use any real instructions. The end result was passable, but very basic. It would be good to have a go with a little more information to hand.
Also, it's great to see something like this get a Daily Deviation. Guides and tutorials often seem to get a little overlooked. Congratulations!
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It took me a while for my efforts to actually look good, too- nobody's perfect, especially in the beginning.
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Yay! Thank you for making this : D We learned a little bit of book binding in uni lately and I found it kinda' interesting, it'll be good to practice!
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I've always wanted to try book-binding, thanks for sharing the information!
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Can't wait to study it properly, but it sounds like a lot of fun and very interesting! I bound books sometimes before, mostly to repair some old volumes that were falling apart.
Congrats on the DD!
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This is amazing~! Thank you thank you thank you~!
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SO. USEFUL.
Thank you, kind human, for sharing this with the internet world.
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You just won the itnernet and my eternal gratitude for this
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I've been looking for this info! Talk about great timing. Thanks!
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Thank you so much for this! I've been searching for a clear, structured tutorial that my daughter and I can use together as we'll be tackling a book binding project this summer. This is perfect!
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Adding to faves to so I know to come back here to download later and the fact I like it :3
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I've actually thought about learning to do this. Thank you for posting this.
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I was planning on making a small hand-binded book for my friends birthday present, this will be very useful. Thanks for making this tutorial.
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Quite a wonder! I knew some of these techniques from my years at the Library, but this is amazingly helpful! Thank you very much, friend. ^_^
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Oh, thank-you, thank-you! I have been looking for something like this for ages! It looks amazing.
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How useful. I've been looking for something like this for a while. Thanks.
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whoa. so much new methods.... i loved bookbinding. wonderful half year... (only 2h per week at school though ;A
i'll definitely try making a sketchbook by myself, too.
*i don't have 300gĀ² black cardboard for nothing... hehehehe*
THANKS SO MUCH FOR MAKING ALL THIS! 
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Thank you! I'm glad you like it!
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It is to downnload the image and then open it ?
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click the download button to the right. A prompt will come up asking you to open or save the file. Save it. It's a .zip file, so you're going to have to unzip it after you save it to your computer. Then, go into the folder, and open the file labeled "index.htm" and it will open.
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