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Easy How To Professional Looking Home Book Binding How To-part 3

Making Hardback Book Covers – Video Tutorials

So you’re wondering how to create a hardback book from scratch? Well this page is for you! We’ve pulled together the best YouTube video tutorials along with a transcribed written procedure (slightly edited) and a huge list of additional resources (which you can find at the bottom of this page) which will take you through, in a step-by-step fashion, many ways to make the hard-back book of your dreams!

Before you move on, don’t forget to check out our very own post on Making Hardback Book Covers, we’ve also got a tutorial on making Split-Cover Boards for Larger Books.

* Note that videos shown on this page are works of other book-binders and not the work of i BookBinding.

We would love to know what you think of the videos, please share your thoughts in the comments section below.

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Bookbinding 101 Sewing Headbands Session 1

Making and Sewing Headbands – Video Tutorials

Following on from our popular Headband Gallery post we’ve had many requests for a couple of video tutorials on how to create and sew headbands (also known as endbands). We’ve crawled the darkest corners of the internet and have a found a couple of video ‘gems’. Note that videos shown above and below are works of other bookbinders and not the work of iBookBinding (these will come later…)

We would love to know what you think of the videos, please share your thoughts in the comments section below.

** Note that the first few videos have no sound, whilst the rest of the tutorials do. I would recommend watching them all as they each demonstrate different techniques and offer helpful tips and advice throughout ***

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12. Making Bookbinding Headbands Tutorial

This entry is part 12 of 12 in the series Introduction to Bookbinding

Headbanding is the process of strengthening the head of a book. This is done by the sewing a cord onto the backbone behind the boards, which secures the signatures together more firmly. The result is a stronger binding construction, and even the backbone can be prevented from damage.

A good video introduction into creating and sewing headbands can be found in this YouTube playlist.
Well worth a watch before reading the rest of this tutorial. Enjoy!

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Bookbinding, A Step-by-step Guide

Bookbinding: A Step-by-Step Guide Book Review

Bookbinding: A Step-by-Step Guide is a very well laid out, easy to follow book to help get started in bookbinding. The author, Kathy Abbott has been in the bookbinding industry for well over 20 years and has a huge amount of experience which is clear from reading her latest book, Bookbinding: A Step-by-Step Guide.

The instructions within this book are clear, concise and well worded; this coupled with the easy to follow illustrations, take the reader by the hand through the art of bookbinding.

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