Bookbinding Class

There are three beginners in the class and at the end of Week 2 we have all managed to complete a pamphlet book each.  Mine is the green one.  The red one was the best as it was completed without getting glue marks on it anywhere, unlike the other two of us!!  We both put it down to the fact that we had to rush at the end and forgot to turn the waste paper that we were using over to a clean side.

On week 3 two of us began constructing a book from scratch so we cut out our pages and made signatures.  This photograph shows my signatures trapped between two boards in the 'Book Lying Press' with a 'Backing Saw' which is used to saw across the spine to add holes evenly ready to stitch through.

The third person is deconstructing an existing book to repair it.  Both methods involve our learning to stitch the signatures together.