Last week was full of some planning for the year, making even more Valentines (!), and finishing up a couple of custom bookbinding projects.
This journal is a casebound (covered spine), traditional sewn journal with 86 pages of heavyweight printmaking paper. The covers are blue burst chiyogami (Japanese silkscreened paper) and chocolate brown bookcloth.
Here are a few process shots of putting together a landscape-oriented custom photo album:
The first steps are gluing up the covers, and tearing down the pages to size. Then, I pre-punch all of the sewing stations along the spine and in each signature (section of pages). Once the punching is done, sewing can start.
With a triple chain stitch structure, each section of pages is sewn in separately; down the center column first, then up one side and up the other.
The finished album! The measurements are 11″ wide x 9″ high and the album is bound with an exposed triple chain stitch, using lavender waxed Irish linen thread.
I may have drawn your attention to this one in the past, but Robert Hershon’s “Superbly Situated” is worth re-reading.
gorgeous!