Zum Gali Gali Rubber Stamps presents Five-stitch Bookbinding - Finished Project

Naturally I followed along as I wrote these directions. Here’s one of seven books I made as I was working on these directions.

This one went to my net friend Carol in Washington state. I sent the other six to the first six people who got this far in the directions and e-mailed me with comments about the site and said they’d like one. Some of the others had the real wasps’ nest paper like this one, and some had a slip of birch bark from a tree that fell in the storm we had on April Fools’ Day ’97.

Anu, of Lake Worth FL, sent me this picture of some books she made using cereal box cardboard for the covers, and the tip about using an eyelet punch to make holes. She says,

One thing I did to make making the holes easier is to use a metal hole punch (1/16 inch tip size). Its the kind that you hold and hit with a hammer that people use to make holes before they put eyelets in.

... Using food boxes is great. It makes you like a kid again, except that instead of buying the cereal for the toy, you're buying it for the graphics on the outside :-)

 
Thanks to my son who learned this way of making a book at Rhode Island School of Design.

Read more about bookbinding, including instructions for several bindings similar to this, in Cover To Cover by Shereen LaPlantz, from Lark Crafts.

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