BOOK BINDING
As I am creating a book for my final design, I decided it would be beneficial to go to a bookbinding workshop at vernon street, I found the workshop really interesting and helpful.
PAMFLET
This is the first booklet stitch we did it consists of piercing two holes through the centre and and threading the string through the booklet and back through again and tying it in a knot.
We had 5 double pages which in total makes 10 single pages.
When creating this booklet consider marks and bleeds because you fold your stock over some pieces of paper will be longer than other.
We folded the paper with the black piece of paper we are using as the cover. Using the bone folder so it was straight and had a more precise fold.
We next with the needle pierced a hole in the very centre then two at equal widths away from the centre hole.
The next step was to pierce the holes again using a needle and thread .
In through the middle
Back from the outside
Back in the opposite hole pull extra string through
Then back through the middle
Then pull each side around the centre string.
Cut off access string.
To trim the booklet line up with lines on the cutting mat.
Make sure you trim blade with pliers.
Then use ruler and measure and begin cutting down with scalpel the booklet probably wont cut all the through straight away so keep the ruler in position and keep cutting.
Repeat process for all the sides.
Different types of saddle stitch.
This method i think i will use for my booklets.
PERFECT BINDING
The next method we did was the perfect binding.
Trim a MM to start it is crural so everything is aligned.
We put our stock between grey board. We tapped the surface with the grey board so al the paper in side was even and fell to one point. We then put it into the bench press.
We next applied PVA to the flat surface.l
We next stuck down the scrimp and rubbed across more PVA.
One we had rubbed it over the scrimp and left it to dry.
Once it was dry we then had to cut off the grey board holding the document together and making sure we cut really close the best option is to hold the grey board up wards and cut diagonally.
You repeat this process until both sides have some off an your left with you stock attached to the scrimp.
You glue one page down then the centre then the other side.
holding it up right as you do it.
CONCERTINA
Concertina was the last method we tried.
We had 7 sheets and we folded them each in half.
We opened up the folded sheets we had and placed them like this.
We them got them together in the format.
We used a clip to hold the stock together.We marked a simple cross on the pages so we knew not to the glue this pages.
We than began gluing the black pages with a thin PVA layer.
We repeated the process unit the full booklet stretched out and there wasn't any pieces of paper not stuck to another.
We then placed it into this devise so it could glue securely.
Making the book cover:
We took our grey mount board and measured using our book how much we would need. We dug in using the scalpel to mark where we wanted and then cut it.
Once you have cut out to perfectly square month board pieces for your paper you can began to stick the book rum down.
Here are some examples of other bookrum LCA vernon street has.
We used a white pencil to mark our where it should be.
We then sliced it off and used PVA to glue the book rum to the mount board.
We next cut off the corners and folded them over so that they wouldn't have any large access around the mount board.
Using PVA we folded them around and stuck the down
The next part we used newsprint to make sure we didn't get glue on the rest of the book and placed it underneath the paper.
Lifting the book up and to the left we placed the paper onto the and rubbed over the paper so it was securely stuck to the back.
I found this the most difficult out of all the binding techniques but once finished looked of high standard , and i would consider trying it again.
