How to Rebind a Hardcover Book
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 มิ.ย. 2020
- This video walks you through the process of rebinding a hardcover book. It is intended for complete beginners and will enable you to give a book a new lease of life if, as often happens, the book block is still in good condition but the cover has become battered.
For more on a basic introduction to case binding, see my series below:
• Case Binding
My video showing how I made the paste paper for the cover:
• Super Simple Paste Paper
For more on the Wibalin that I used for the other cover:
www.winter-company.com/en/pro...
Glen Malkin's video showing how to make a jig to cut the corners:
• Bookbinding - Making a...
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My Bible from high school graduation (1974) needs this tender loving care! Thank you!
Did it work?
So helpful! I’m going to recover my old AD&D Dungeon Master’s Guide.
Since you asked:
I found the video extremely helpful, perfectly explained, and wonderfully British.
My parish priest just asked me to rebind a Bible! I have beeen away from bookbinding for a few years, and this was immensely helpful. Thank you.
I’m watching videos to learn how to rebind my Bible. Yours was very helpful. Thank you.
Thank you! I appreciate the thorough directions!
So that's how you add an Oxford hollow to a case binding! I had heard of the practice but never seen it demonstrated, thank you.
You're welcome! There are slightly different ways of doing it, but this is how I was taught.
Really easy to follow and you have ensured that us beginners are able to follow along. I’m sure you have inspired book lovers to start refurbishing their old and tired books. Thank you.
I haven’t watched the video, but I did just finish watching the entire soft to hard recover of “Cry, The Beloved Country” video and am now just browsing your channel while I hold a sleeping baby. We had many books damaged in storage, none valuable, but some irreplaceable. Also, our son was an avid reader and died this spring in a car accident. He had a son on the way he never met. Some of his childhood books are very worn from much reading. I look forward to preserving them for his boy. I’ve subscribed and look forward to the day I can repair some of our books.
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your charity, please pray for the soul of our departed one, Jack, known in the church as John.
Apologies for the late response. I am so sorry about your son and will certainly pray for him.
Give rest, O Lord, to the soul of Thy servant, John.
May his memory be eternal.
Extraordinary. What a beautiful and practical art. Thank you for sharing your experience and mastery with such a wonderful ability to teach and communicate.
Thanks for your kind comment and apologies for not replying sooner!
Calm and quiet which helps so much. Thank you.
You're welcome! I'm glad it was helpful.
One of the very best teaching demonstrations. Helpful pace. Excellent visual. Practical suggestions. In fact, this is the only video on this subject that you need. Watch it several times and then practice. Logical , clear and BTW very good voice. Thank you very much.
Rebinding is a great learning experience, too. I will practice on an old book as a no-stakes exercise in case I mess something up.
Thank you for posting!
Helped me restore an old book with a cracked spine.
This was very informative. I'm a book collector that is beginning to look into preserving and saving older books. This video and others like it have really helped me understand the methods and practices of book binders and preservationists. Thank you so much. I am going to use your methods to save a copy of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea I bought second hand. It is quite old and has had some abusive repairs done to it. I'd like to preserve the cover since it has a very beautiful picture and gold leaf on it but I may have to look for other videos on how to restore a cover and not replace it.
An excellent way of repairing old books. You did explain well. Appreciate.
Thank you!
Very nicely done -- it's always a pleasure to see a bone folder used skillfully! One or two things worth mentioning: sometimes a large or heavy book will have "sat down" in the old case for so long that the top spine is flat or even concave. If so, after the old glue materials have been removed the round can be slightly restored by gentle manipulation prior to (or after a light coat of) fresh glue and mull. Less hammering later!
For some types of paper used for endpapers, the grain direction is better suited to run vertically. Otherwise, a degree of waviness may appear in the paste down or the inner edge of the fly leaf.
Thank you! That's a very good point about manipulating the spine. And I only realized now that I didn't mention grain direction when discussing the endpages - that was a definite oversight!
Amazing tutorial, learned a lot! Thanks for your pacience and the sharing!!!
Your videos are incredibly relaxing to watch.
I'm repairing a more modern hardback book, this helped me immensely, thank you very much x
Wonderful video. I will have to look up your other videos after seeing this one. Baie Dankie!!!!! from Australia
Thanks very much!
Absolutely excellent. Well thought out, clearly explained and demonstrated.. Much appreciated. .
Very thorough and well paced explanations (in all your book binding videos). Thank you from Norway!
super helpful!!! Thank you for being so thorough and explaining the "why" behind things as well as what materials you used
Excellent video! Thank you! Perhaps I will try it for one of my books, you have it look very doable.
Awesome work! Your experience is obvious.
Thank you so much. You are one of the best demonstrations!!!!!!!!!
Amazing! Thank you for this video! You are good and patience teacher!
Thank you for the wonderful tutorial!!
That was amazing, thanks ah lot for teaching us.
Beautiful work!
This was by far the most expanded video I've seen on bookbinding so far, everything is so precise and you explain very well so I'm giving it a thumbs up that's for sure ☺️ thank you for your video
this was such a great video! thank you for all of the details
You're welcome - glad you liked it!
Excellent tutorial! Thank you!
Wow thank you so much for this detailed demonstration!
You're welcome! I'm glad it was helpful!
Great instructions, thank you! It's been a long time since I've made hardback books, and I have an idea to make a custom re-bind of my boyfriend's favorite book.
Thank you. I'm just getting started with binding and your video has been tremendously helpful. I have been taking notes throughout! I'll be watching the series on case bindings next.
You're welcome! I'm pleased they were helpful.
Absolutely mesmerising 😍
A beautiful and very heplful tutorial, dear lady. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge, I’ve learned a lot with this video.
Thank you for the inspiring video. This is the first of yours that I’ve viewed, but I will be sure to watch others, starting with your casing series. I’ve been watching other channels do similar work with specialized tools and such, but this video makes it all seem less daunting and more achievable (although I do understand that it will require practice).
Thank you for the instructional pacing. I’ve learned a lot already. And thank you for all of the links and descriptions below the video!
Thanks very much for your comment! I have hoped that my videos would be helpful to people who find some of the (very good) stuff online a bit too intimidating when one is just starting out, so it's nice to have confirmation that they are!
Thank you.. wonderful instructions..
Incredibly informative video. I wish someone, you preferably would do this with an omnibus. I’ll send you want to figure it out. Lol
Im from egypt and im mechancal power engineer and i love rebinding the my books by my hand greet thanks for your and in rebinding by hand mor than 2500books in my libaraily in house
Thank you so much - You are the best !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you! It's a great tutorial
Great clear, concise instructions! thank you! I have just repaired a book for a friend. Your video was exactly what I needed to complete the repair :)
Thank you - I'm glad it helped!
Amazing demonstration!
Thank you!
Thank you so much for this. My project turned out beautifully with your instruction!
You're welcome - I'm glad it was helpful!
How about a photo of the project?
Great video! Thank you
What a wonderful tutorial ! Thank you for sharing your expertise
You're welcome! I'm glad it was helpful.
I have a small Bible about 4.5 inches by about 6 inches I bought it under the impression that it was leather bound. However it was a good imitation type leather look vinyl on gauzy type fabric and then on paper. Well it has done what you think so I followed your instruction to remove all the exterior covers and binding. I have some nice rustic thick suede. So where do I go from here? For proper inside pages and what I need for a soft leather but still tough leather cover??? Looking for rustic cover that will develop character with age so not worried about pretty but tough for camping and outdoor life durability. Do I do what’s in this video just use leather and adapt fo floppy soft 3-4 mm thick leather???? I have leather/heavy fabric capable sewing machine up to 18mm thick work
Thank you so much for the video, I have a really great Lovecraft book but the covers are really cheaply made and for ages I wanted to replace them but I didn't know how.
Glad it was helpful!
haha, same boat! I wanted a silly fancy lovecraft book but they don't make anything like that, so now I'm making my own
Excellent, thank you.
Such an amazing work alah bless you
great video, thanks.
Thank you very much for this!
Very good! 🎉
Love the video though brought back memories of the bindery I worked for
:-) Thanks for your comment!
Hello. I just discovered your channel. I hope you make more videos. Thanks.
Thank you - I'm afraid I've been neglecting this channel horribly, but I am hoping to get back to making videos.
This is awesome🎉❤ That you so much😊
Thank you very much.
Спасибо! Все четко и по делу. Очень понравилось👍. Подписываюсь👈
If you use a layer of artist’s acrylic varnish or medium, it will seal your paste paper. It comes in matt or gloss. You can mix them. (This is not like wood varnish.) it should help your paper’s resistance to moisture but must be very thoroughly dry or it can stick. Once dry it will not dissolve in water.
You can also burnish paste paper which changes the texture
Thanks - I did that once but found that when I pressed the book I rather lost the texture of the paste paper (more than I normally do by pressing it). But that may just have been me! I have also sometimes coated it with a beeswax mixture, which can also help.
Well done! You give very good step-by-step instructions. I'm wondering, is there anything very different when changing a paperback book to a hardcover? Thank you for posting.
I have a thickish book, the pages of which are separating in sections. The binding was cheaply done. I was hoping not to have to re-cover, but that looks like the only way to save it. Thank you so much.
You're welcome! I am planning to do a video (hopefully in the next week or two) on rebinding a book and keeping its original cover. Of course, I don't know whether that will be possible with yours, but it may be helpful.
Thanks for that.
Very good
Great!
Hello!
This was so precise, interesting as well. Can you show me how to enhance a leather like book. It's ready to explode from journaling into it, and still want to add more pages and flip pages, which I do, it's just visual for me. Please make a video if you would. Also, once taken apart and proceed your experience and expertise, after bound, I'd like more room to add more pages. So, I need room. So the spine with probably need to be thicker. Also, after the spine process to heighten the front and back... I'd like to cover the entire book with real leather hide over the thick cover with the leather like (it's very strong because it has a harder top and back cover, with same of the spine.) Then after that procedure, I need to be taught how to apply with the real leather. Not needed to be perfect. It can hang over a tad, eventually I know it'll hang over a tad and soften over the edge of the paper side of pages. Tysm you are a great teacher.
In jesus' name. God bless you more 💙🌼
I am enjoying your channel. Growing up I lived in the stacks of our college library. I am a Graphic artists, so you have created countless ideas in my head… when you labeled this book you mentioned a gold foil Method, and I haven’t seen it in any of your books. Is it at all possible to show? My first Commercial job had an associated photo studio that produced such things when needed, I would be currious how it could be done.
thank you!!
You're welcome!
I've loved watching your video and as a DIY'er , 1st timer , learned so much that I believe I may be capable of removing the hard cover and preparing the binding for another. You really have a way of expressing the steps in a simplistic manor even I can garner confidence in.
However, my thoughts when looking into this project was to completely replace the hard cover w/ a soft leather cover. (it's a fair condition used bible I just bought) I'd also like to ad book ribbons to the book headband.
Would you be able to recommend a video of yours that may help me w/these issues. Or, might you be able to give me advice or direct me to a link ??
Thank you so much for your generous consideration,
God bless,
Sincerely ..................
Great 🌹
Great video! My puppy tore off the cover of my recently purchased paperback, so this will be a great way to not only repair it, but improve it!
It’s part of a set. I was thinking it would be nice to have artwork that goes across the spines. Would it be best to have especially large labels, or would that ridge be too noticeable?
muito bonito
Wonderful thank you. I wish my clamps said "record" on them, almost as in the "Records Dept.", hee hee. But more seriously I must make a glue container with the rod inside! I do have a heat press but am yet to afford letter sets. This being the case (so to speak) it dawned on me that my wife has a sewing machine that will embroider digital files on cloth. It likes to behave correctly when embroidering cloth with a thin interfacing so, perhaps, we might apply double-sided iron-on feather-lite interfacing, embroider, then iron on paper (since the paper can't be on the cloth, yet, when the embroidery hoop goes on). Something like that... anyway, thanks you again so very much.
Great video. Quick question, I missed what you did with the ends of the book cloth on the text block. Were they just glued all the way down to the text block or did you clip the ends to remove. When you start to build the cover to attach it seems like the coth ends are gone. Thanks again, God Bless.
I'm hoping to try to restore a couple of old family books, but am a complete novice. I'm also a little confused. It seems that the mull on the first book is glued to the spine of the block, which is fine. But the mull flaps are only attached to the end paper (flyleaf), not the cover. Thus, once the end paper is glued to the cover, only the crease in the end paper is holding the cover to the block. And the cover in the second book only seems to be attached to the block by the creases on either side of the Oxford tube. Aren't the tabs of the mull usually glued to the inside of the cover boards?
Why have I never seen a bookbinder add a end page with their personal logo and date of restoration? I think that would be an awesome addition to a family Bible or something personal
is it possible to recover a hardback with a leather or vinyl binding? I want to recover a hardback. Thank you Great vid by the way
Hi, Can anyone please tell me where you can purchase Walabin Paper please as cant seem to find anywhere in the UK to purchase it
Could you demonstrate how one can bind copies of National Geographic magazine?
The hollow should be the same size as the spine
Could you make the video on how to repair books with the damaged book block? I have a book from 1799, and it is in awful shape. It needs some TLC, but I don’t know how to give it.
I think with a book THAT old, it might be best to invest in a professional restoration... or at least restoration-quality materials. 🤔 I'm not an expert at all, but all my history-lover instincts scream against using regular PVA on it, for example. 😅
What kind of paper do you use for labels?
Guys dont destroy your books, use heat from a hair dryer or heat gun to loosen the adhesive. Heat will turn the glue back into a liquid and make it so you can just pull the pages apart without damaging the book at all.
Thank you for this additional tip! Will give it a try.
Is there a way to do this and salvage the part of the endpaper that is glued to the original cover? I have a book on which a family tree is printed on the endpaper, but the book needs rebound.
I am just getting into bookbinding but I have an idea which I hope can help.
You mentioned his family tree sentimental. Perhaps once you are done pulling the pages out of the old book cut off the back cover. I assume you’ve already tried pulling just the paper off but sometimes it doesn’t work.
Then do one of two things listed below.
First create an entire new cover. This means using the back cover or adding something else like cardboard to make it more sturdy or do you think the spine in front cover of a new book cover and using this as a back cover. With sturdiness being added if you deem necessary.
This way you can still have this as your back cover or reverse it and make your front cover if you want.
The second idea I think is more beginner friendly and easier. Cut off the back part of the old cover one of the book has been removed and attach that cover to the new cover. Just use some glue and glue it in. This might make your book more chunky which for some could be an issue but as you mentioned it is sentimental this might be OK. Especially if you buy a cover that’s a little bit bigger so you don’t have to worry about the spy of the new book being ripped. There’s also could be a good idea if you are creating the cover yourself so you have a little bit more leeway with the measurements of the spine.
Keep in mind I am a beginner at this craft so this might not be a professional way of doing it but hopefully this can be of use.
Also I am legally blind
What is the purpose of an Oxford hollow?
Is the process the same when using leather?
Ma'am, how do you "tighten" a loose text block? Do you need to completely re-sew the signatures?
I f the stitching is intact, then gluing the mull on and pulling it somewhat tighter should help to tighten it.
@@AnnesiBindings Thank you. 😊
What is the paste made off?
Hello, Annesi, hope you are doing well and good health!
I would like to ask you how should i proceed when i have a torn out signature. Actually iam reparing an old piano score book and some pages are torn out just in the middle, that part where we sew.. how should i repair it? I mean, i use japonese paper on it? Or should i separate all the pages and glue as you did on "How to Repair & Rebind a Damaged Paperback as a Hardcover Book" Thank you so much in advance
Personally I would do the second option. Separate book where you need to put in these missing pages and do it like that. At least for me as a beginner it would be easier and I wouldn’t have to worry as much about the book not being sturdy. Or the page is falling out again because they are not properly put in. Hope this can help
Thank you so much!
@@bonniebrandao1987 happy to help have a wonderful day
Please help me for book binding,it was good income money I have no job.
Great video but the audio is so low that even on high it was hard to understand her.
I have a bibe with yap I want to remove and put a hardcover on it. I just do not like yap bibles.
Theotokos in the background!?!!?!?!!!!