I know it's been a while since these were posted and you may not see this, but your videos are absolutely stunning and perfect. Nothing I've found online compares, and it's helped me so much in continuing to learn bookbinding :")) thank you a million times!
@LexHiram If two cords are used, EACH cord is wrapped just like what I showed in the demonstration, and the thread either goes back through the same hole after wrapping both cords, or goes back to a separate hole that’s close together. Basically, the system of medieval sewing remains the same. Thanks for your question! I'm so glad to see someone's watching my video in a serious manner!!
Thank You for the vid! Bookbinding is a lost art it seems like and this is the best video in my opinion out there. The book is made with quality and shows something that is very hard to find. Thank you!
Thank you so much for posting this video. I have been looking everywhere for authentic bookbinding instruction online. I am so glad I found this tutorial. I have been trying to find a way to bind on raised cords. I am in the process of putting everything together to bind a very large journal. Thank you again!
Finally!!! I found the video I wanted thank you!!! making one of those contraptions to tighten the cords will be difficult, I assume I can add on the number of cords by just increasing the number of cuts, I want my book to have 3 or 5 cords, but thank you! Great video!
Thankyou for making the video so specific... I watched another cord binding video and it was done so fast even in the slowest playback speed that i didn't get the "whole" idea of adding the rest of the signatures.... fantastic!!!
I've been doing some signature sewing for a few years but never used a sewing framing before, it does make the job a lot easier and cleaner, thank you for sharing this video, I guess is time for me to get a sewing frame :)
Hi there, Sonya from the Sago on Tuesdays bindery in Australia. I have posted a link to your video on my axe book page, as some followers have asked about cord sewing and it doesn't make sense to make another video when yours is shot so beautifully. Thank you for sharing, and improving people's understanding of our trade. x
~continues~ I briefly mentioned problems with stab-sewing on my blog. Look for a post named "Self-Help by Samuel Smiles" along with the comments. What I'd recommend is to tilt the spine when gluing so that the glue gets inside the pages slightly. Also, after the glue's dry, create horizontal incisions on the spine and glue it again. Embed a piece of thread in each incisions in order for the spine to have a "body", and glue again with a piece of mull. ~continues again to the next~
Thank you so much for your answer, i thought about stab-sewing but i never thought it would hold, since the quality of "paperback" is usually low. You're method of using several layers of glue with threads is ingenious, i think that will work way better than stab-sewing. Thank you again for your patience and reply. P.S. You're videos are the best i've seen on bookbinding, you're a true craftsman, i take my hat off to you
Thank you for such clear video work. I'm looking forward to trying my hand on a project and your instructions have made some of the difficult bits seem manageable.
Thank you for taking the time to do these vids. The sepia tones and lack of speech will mean that this a will not seem dated with the years. The video quality and simple breakdown with display really works well and makes this a useful reference that will stand the test of time. Side note. the Peaceful Cuisine videos do the same thing. Just cooking sounds. It is very relaxing and one tends to concentrate attention on the cooking and less on the personality and voice of the presenter. I find that I tend to avoid videos with ether bad video quality, very dated presentation (80's vids), or over the top presenters (bunny aka grav3yardgirl bit to much for me but very popular.)
Did i just found a tutorial that i needed? Seems like i did. Maybe it is 9 years old film, but god damn, thank you SO MUCH for showing this. It's clear and understandable, honestly I cannot compare other films I've seen to this -maybe because any of them weren't a tutorial, but still-. Also I may be blind -or tired, it's 4:10am here lmao- but tbh I don't see the difference between sewing _on_ cords, and _in_ cords ^^`` You as an author may not see this because this video is old (although I hope that you are not dead or anything :(( ) and the channel itself seems to be forgotten (because last film was like 7 years ago lol), but maybe other viewer will see this comment and help me a little ^^`` :D Anyway, once again, thank you sooo much for this tutorial. I hope that you are doing well.
thank you, an excellent demo and instructional. You have inspired me to make a demo on hand engraving, I was a hand engraver/ designer at Tiffany and company. Sadly it is basically a dead art. Hand engravers are very secretive.
You are unbelievable... I want to ask you a few questions. How many pages each "part" has? How do you make the holes in so many pages so accurate? Do you use for all the stitching waxed thread? Thank you very much from Greece...
Another excellent video, thank you. Out of curiosity; if someone were to do a medieval bind that used two cords for each hole, like you mention... Would you have to run both cords through the same 'peg' at the base? (to keep them close together), and would you simply stitch 'around them' as you went, as it were, or would you need to weave between them? - sorry if I worded that badly.
Hi AJ, Basically, once a "paperback", it stays a "paperback" unfortunately. A paperback book is the sort of modern book that you mentioned, which is constructed with single sheets of paper simply glued off on the spine. As we all know, its spine splits & breaks so easily. If you had absolutely no choice but to do paperback, yet want it to be stronger, you could stab-sew it, (the same sewing idea as the traditional Japanese bookbinding) which I personally don't recommend. ~continues to the next ~
First of all I want to thank you for making these awesome videos. I have some questions for a project. I'm going to make an A5 sized book from printed pages (an ebook that is hard to get printed). It has 668 pages all in all. I was thinking of printing it in 24 page block sections with 6 sheets of paper each, which makes 28 signatures. Do you have recommendations on what methods to use. I want to make a somewhat simple book, possibly not a (53 hours in the making) treasure of the medieval times.
~Last~ Well, here on the TH-cam comment, I can't give you any detailed instructions other than what I just said, but I hope it gives you some ideas as to how to make the paperback a bit stronger.
I'm a bookbinder in training and is the only student at my university that studies it. This stitching is beautiful but where can you buy a stand like that? Or is it custom made?
They are either attached to the cover boards, or frayed and glued onto the endsheets. Please see one of my videos called "Prior to Case Making", from about 4:32.
I aquired a waxed thread and have been sawing with exposed spine,coptic and french. The thread is a little fat though and the spine ends up thicker than the other side in my projects. Im propably wrong but i think my thread's thickness is similar to the one demonstrated on this video. Im using normal a4 printing paper which i assume is thin,does that combined with the thick thread affect the difference in thickness from the spine to the other side?
I realize this is eight years old now, but I was wondering if you could tell me where you got the cord you use in this video? The cord I have now has a lot of "fluff" or "fray" and isn't as smooth as yours.
Does it matter how far apart the holes are? What are the measurements there? Did you make the holes on the paper you started sowing by sawing the paper earlier?
Excellent video, maybe my question will sound dumb but without asking one cannot find an answer. Recent books are are not binded by sewing but rather by glue, depending on the quality of the book after a time it will start to come apart. As i seen these kind of books don't use signatures, but simple sheets of paper. My question is: is there a sewing type for bookbinding that uses single sheets of paper instead of signatures? If it exists, how can someone do it? Thanks in advance for your reply.
I just got everything I need to start bookbinding and your videos are great! One question: with medieval sewing, will the book open flat when left open? I want to write in the book after the sewing and leather cover is done but that will be hard it the book doesn't open enough.
I’ve read with medieval, 2 cords, there is less of a “throw up.” In other words, the book will lay more flat when open then with one cord. You can look up the different methods of bookbinding and see that each one has a different shape and how much the spine lays flat. Hope that helps.
Yes. Use sailor's needles as cords; tape the needles on a platform which is about a couple of inches thick, and sew your book as if you are sewing with cords. After finish sawing, put a cord through the holes of the needle, and pull through the sewn thread. It's really tight when pulling the needle through the thread with a thick cord attached to it, so use a needle-nose pliers to pull the needle down. Good luck!
I just watched all the 10 clips of the movie on TH-cam for you to see the photo album you are talking about. But I didn't see it. (The only "book" I saw was "Ark building for dummies. hahaha..) Anyway, I don't know how the photo album looks like.
I just found this channel and found out that the bookbinder passed away this summer. I imagine there will be no voiceovers. My condolences to his widow and their business.
@@sialafale I believe this channel is actually his wife's, she is also a bookbinder. I saw they posted a gofund me for his book bindery that they would like to stay open after his passing www.gofundme.com/f/arsobscura-bookbinding
I've made about 6 handmade books and this way of stitching looks like it will cut the time in half or more. Now I just need to find or build the rig you have to sew the spine together.
Finally!!! I found the video I wanted thank you!!! making one of those contraptions to tighten the cords will be difficult, I assume I can add on the number of cords by just increasing the number of cuts, I want my book to have 3 or 5 cords, but thank you! Great video!
I know it's been a while since these were posted and you may not see this, but your videos are absolutely stunning and perfect. Nothing I've found online compares, and it's helped me so much in continuing to learn bookbinding :")) thank you a million times!
As a beginner, I appreciate being able to watch these videos step by step.
I have always loved books, and now I appreciate older books even more. Thank you for sharing.
I recently became interested in bookbinding and plan to continue with some more serious projects. These videos are great, and thank-you!
@LexHiram If two cords are used, EACH cord is wrapped just like what I showed in the demonstration, and the thread either goes back through the same hole after wrapping both cords, or goes back to a separate hole that’s close together. Basically, the system of medieval sewing remains the same. Thanks for your question! I'm so glad to see someone's watching my video in a serious manner!!
Thank You for the vid! Bookbinding is a lost art it seems like and this is the best video in my opinion out there. The book is made with quality and shows something that is very hard to find. Thank you!
Thank you so much for posting this video. I have been looking everywhere for authentic bookbinding instruction online. I am so glad I found this tutorial. I have been trying to find a way to bind on raised cords. I am in the process of putting everything together to bind a very large journal. Thank you again!
Finally!!! I found the video I wanted thank you!!! making one of those contraptions to tighten the cords will be difficult, I assume I can add on the number of cords by just increasing the number of cuts, I want my book to have 3 or 5 cords, but thank you! Great video!
Thankyou for making the video so specific... I watched another cord binding video and it was done so fast even in the slowest playback speed that i didn't get the "whole" idea of adding the rest of the signatures.... fantastic!!!
I've been doing some signature sewing for a few years but never used a sewing framing before, it does make the job a lot easier and cleaner, thank you for sharing this video, I guess is time for me to get a sewing frame :)
Hi there, Sonya from the Sago on Tuesdays bindery in Australia. I have posted a link to your video on my axe book page, as some followers have asked about cord sewing and it doesn't make sense to make another video when yours is shot so beautifully. Thank you for sharing, and improving people's understanding of our trade. x
Great video, appreciate the closeup detail
Excellent video. This is what I was looking for. Very clear demonstration. Thanks !
~continues~ I briefly mentioned problems with stab-sewing on my blog. Look for a post named "Self-Help by Samuel Smiles" along with the comments. What I'd recommend is to tilt the spine when gluing so that the glue gets inside the pages slightly. Also, after the glue's dry, create horizontal incisions on the spine and glue it again. Embed a piece of thread in each incisions in order for the spine to have a "body", and glue again with a piece of mull. ~continues again to the next~
Thank you so much for your answer, i thought about stab-sewing but i never thought it would hold, since the quality of "paperback" is usually low. You're method of using several layers of glue with threads is ingenious, i think that will work way better than stab-sewing. Thank you again for your patience and reply.
P.S. You're videos are the best i've seen on bookbinding, you're a true craftsman, i take my hat off to you
Oh , I love your tutorials, very clear and step by step. Love it! New sub!
Thank you for such clear video work. I'm looking forward to trying my hand on a project and your instructions have made some of the difficult bits seem manageable.
Thank you for taking the time to do these vids. The sepia tones and lack of speech will mean that this a will not seem dated with the years. The video quality and simple breakdown with display really works well and makes this a useful reference that will stand the test of time. Side note. the Peaceful Cuisine videos do the same thing. Just cooking sounds. It is very relaxing and one tends to concentrate attention on the cooking and less on the personality and voice of the presenter. I find that I tend to avoid videos with ether bad video quality, very dated presentation (80's vids), or over the top presenters (bunny aka grav3yardgirl bit to much for me but very popular.)
Did i just found a tutorial that i needed? Seems like i did. Maybe it is 9 years old film, but god damn, thank you SO MUCH for showing this. It's clear and understandable, honestly I cannot compare other films I've seen to this -maybe because any of them weren't a tutorial, but still-.
Also I may be blind -or tired, it's 4:10am here lmao- but tbh I don't see the difference between sewing _on_ cords, and _in_ cords ^^``
You as an author may not see this because this video is old (although I hope that you are not dead or anything :(( ) and the channel itself seems to be forgotten (because last film was like 7 years ago lol), but maybe other viewer will see this comment and help me a little ^^`` :D
Anyway, once again, thank you sooo much for this tutorial. I hope that you are doing well.
thank you, an excellent demo and instructional. You have inspired me to make a demo on hand engraving, I was a hand engraver/ designer at Tiffany and company. Sadly it is basically a dead art. Hand engravers are very secretive.
Thank you for sharing this knowledge 🙏
Muito obrigado por postar este vídeo como iniciante tirou muitas duvidas
This video is just what I needed!!
Not sure you watch the comments, but thankyou for taking my call. And talking to me about book binding
Thank you for your teachings. It looks very easy as it should be worked sewing signatures.
This is fantastic video. I watched your other video clips. I learned a lot. Thank you so much for sharing this.
Great explanation!... beautiful video!
Thanks for the excellent videos, very easy to follow! What do you do with the ends of the cords?
These videos are so helpful, thank you for posting them! What kind of blade do you use to saw into the manuscript?
I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS.
You are unbelievable... I want to ask you a few questions. How many pages each "part" has? How do you make the holes in so many pages so accurate? Do you use for all the stitching waxed thread? Thank you very much from Greece...
HGi..:) Nice and very thorough, Thanks. Have you made a video of how to make the casing and putting it on? Thanks Nick
Another excellent video, thank you.
Out of curiosity; if someone were to do a medieval bind that used two cords for each hole, like you mention... Would you have to run both cords through the same 'peg' at the base? (to keep them close together), and would you simply stitch 'around them' as you went, as it were, or would you need to weave between them? - sorry if I worded that badly.
Omg thank u so much I can finally finish my book lol 😅
Great video, well done!
highly informative and helpful!
Hi AJ, Basically, once a "paperback", it stays a "paperback" unfortunately. A paperback book is the sort of modern book that you mentioned, which is constructed with single sheets of paper simply glued off on the spine. As we all know, its spine splits & breaks so easily. If you had absolutely no choice but to do paperback, yet want it to be stronger, you could stab-sew it, (the same sewing idea as the traditional Japanese bookbinding) which I personally don't recommend. ~continues to the next ~
First of all I want to thank you for making these awesome videos. I have some questions for a project. I'm going to make an A5 sized book from printed pages (an ebook that is hard to get printed). It has 668 pages all in all. I was thinking of printing it in 24 page block sections with 6 sheets of paper each, which makes 28 signatures. Do you have recommendations on what methods to use. I want to make a somewhat simple book, possibly not a (53 hours in the making) treasure of the medieval times.
oh, got it, thanks, very helpful.
~Last~ Well, here on the TH-cam comment, I can't give you any detailed instructions other than what I just said, but I hope it gives you some ideas as to how to make the paperback a bit stronger.
Thank you for this great video, from iraq
I like this video to. Still wish the there was some sound and a bit more explanation/showing what you did at the beginning with embedding the cord....
I'm a bookbinder in training and is the only student at my university that studies it. This stitching is beautiful but where can you buy a stand like that? Or is it custom made?
I wandered the same thing
They are either attached to the cover boards, or frayed and glued onto the endsheets. Please see one of my videos called "Prior to Case Making", from about 4:32.
Very nice!
Thanks. you are an expert.
I aquired a waxed thread and have been sawing with exposed spine,coptic and french.
The thread is a little fat though and the spine ends up thicker than the other side in my projects.
Im propably wrong but i think my thread's thickness is similar to the one demonstrated on this video.
Im using normal a4 printing paper which i assume is thin,does that combined with the thick thread affect the difference in thickness from the spine to the other side?
I realize this is eight years old now, but I was wondering if you could tell me where you got the cord you use in this video? The cord I have now has a lot of "fluff" or "fray" and isn't as smooth as yours.
This hemp cord is tight and doesn't have "fluff". www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005KR99VO/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
@@BookbindersChronicle Thank you!
Does it matter how far apart the holes are? What are the measurements there? Did you make the holes on the paper you started sowing by sawing the paper earlier?
Excellent video, maybe my question will sound dumb but without asking one cannot find an answer. Recent books are are not binded by sewing but rather by glue, depending on the quality of the book after a time it will start to come apart. As i seen these kind of books don't use signatures, but simple sheets of paper. My question is: is there a sewing type for bookbinding that uses single sheets of paper instead of signatures? If it exists, how can someone do it? Thanks in advance for your reply.
Hi! What type of paper exactly did u use in this video? And what thread size? Thanks ;-)
The particular thread is 20/3 linen (flax), and the paper is called Starwhite Vicksburg. (80lb. text.)
Muchas gracias por el video! me sirvio mucho
Thank you!!
Couldnt find a message option... how does one prepare vellum? Chalk dust...aaand?
What are those pieces called that you use to wrap the string around and wedge it under the sewing frame?
I tried making this but when I was sewing, my pages were all uneven. How do I fix this? Can I cut the pages or will it fall apart?
would it be possible to do this with a makeshift sewing frame?
I just got everything I need to start bookbinding and your videos are great! One question: with medieval sewing, will the book open flat when left open? I want to write in the book after the sewing and leather cover is done but that will be hard it the book doesn't open enough.
Old book were never made to lay flat so I would assume with such a binding it would be too stressful on the spine over time.
I’ve read with medieval, 2 cords, there is less of a “throw up.” In other words, the book will lay more flat when open then with one cord. You can look up the different methods of bookbinding and see that each one has a different shape and how much the spine lays flat. Hope that helps.
did you use your cctv video in making this video? just curious,
hello I was wondering if you sew the end papers in as a single piece or if you sew it in at all reply is welcome thank you
Did you make the wooden pieces you used to tie the cords to? If not, what are they called?
Wonderfull! Thank you
Nice!!🥰🥰
Where did you find the larger size 'split eye' needles? I can only find the small ones
Leather supply stores should have them.
Any leather supply store should have them.
Is there a way to sew the cords on without one of those rigs? I can't afford to buy one and don't have materials to make one.
Yes. Use sailor's needles as cords; tape the needles on a platform which is about a couple of inches thick, and sew your book as if you are sewing with cords. After finish sawing, put a cord through the holes of the needle, and pull through the sewn thread. It's really tight when pulling the needle through the thread with a thick cord attached to it, so use a needle-nose pliers to pull the needle down. Good luck!
@@BookbindersChronicle Thank you!
thank you thank you thank you so muchhhhhh
Can you opent he book flat with this technique?
Is the sawn-in method structurally better?
Is the video silent?
does anyone know, should i put the signatures in the bookpress for a while before sewing or is it unnecessary?
Martin Kork ONLY If they need to be flattened, like if you tea dyed then dried them
Can you show us how to make a book with leather cover? Like for example the photo album that comes out in the movie Evan Almighty. Thank you.
I just watched all the 10 clips of the movie on TH-cam for you to see the photo album you are talking about. But I didn't see it. (The only "book" I saw was "Ark building for dummies. hahaha..) Anyway, I don't know how the photo album looks like.
goddahm i think i might need a proper sewing frame if i want to do that regularly, its a bother otherwise
thanks^^
why do the cords have to be tight?
they're basically supporting the whole spine and all the signatures, if you try and tie something to a wobbly string its gonna end up wobbly
Really needs a voice over. You lost me with all the silence. But that’s just me. I like to hear what’s going on as well as just see.
I just found this channel and found out that the bookbinder passed away this summer. I imagine there will be no voiceovers. My condolences to his widow and their business.
@@sialafale I believe this channel is actually his wife's, she is also a bookbinder. I saw they posted a gofund me for his book bindery that they would like to stay open after his passing www.gofundme.com/f/arsobscura-bookbinding
Holy fucking shit, the ad almost gave me a fucking heart attack
I tried to sew a book, looking at the many videos, but I could not ever, so I quit.
Oh, why??? What part of the sewing process do you have a difficulty with? Let me know if I can be of any help. :-)
Aunque no entendí nada de ingles
Me gusta mucho ver los videos porque explica muy bien con los gestos
I've made about 6 handmade books and this way of stitching looks like it will cut the time in half or more. Now I just need to find or build the rig you have to sew the spine together.
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Hi..:)
Finally!!! I found the video I wanted thank you!!! making one of those contraptions to tighten the cords will be difficult, I assume I can add on the number of cords by just increasing the number of cuts, I want my book to have 3 or 5 cords, but thank you! Great video!