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Eons ago I made a book block on tapes but hadn't made a set of covers. When I saw yesterday that the weekly challenge at Inspiration Avenue was Books I thought well I can just quickly finish the covers, attach the tapes to the cover, be done with it and post it like I had worked for days on end. Ha! I had also made fake leather out of a paper bag using a top secret recipe. I knew I wanted to use that to cover some mat board for the book covers. Well the twill tape I had used was polyester so glue didn't stick to the tape or the fake leather cover and the edges frayed. So I pulled out the tapes from the 3 groups of stitching.
Another dumb thing I did was to endpaper the inside of the covers with a nice diamond pattern paper. I didn't want to glue the first and last pages of the book block down over the nice paper to attach the covers that way so what to do?! I took a deep breath and cut those two pages and then glued them down like I really meant to do that all along! I think I actually like how it looks... a book rising from the covers or a book melting into the covers, take your pick.
Unfortunately the spine feels flimsy and really needs to have tapes through the 3 groups of stiching. I think if I worked long tapes through I could just tie 3 bows at the fore edge. If that is too busy I could just tie one bow. Even thinking about bows at all seems too busy. 3 small buckles would work much better. Stay tuned!
Here are some examples of book blocks on tape so you know what the heck I'm talking about!
Here are some examples of book blocks on tape so you know what the heck I'm talking about!
3 comments:
hi there :)
firstly, thank you for playing with us on IA :) your faux leather book cover is awesome! the leather effects turned out perfectly. the binding is unique too... but i can understand why you say it's flimsy. from what i see, this binding without a spine is closer to a coptic stitched book. and coptic stitched books never FEEL as sturdy as the traditionally stitched ones. i dun think you're doing anything wrong here. it's just the way coptic stitches are. but dun be fooled, coptic books are in fact quite a tough. :)
HUGS!!
luthien :)
I think it looks good. If it is a coffee table book, and not opened all that much it will work.
I have a source book for families and I over used the flimsy paper back now pages are falling out. I need to redo somehow.
In case I get to book binding, this was good to know. I have a book somewhere about making book covers.........
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