Video: Repairing a Historical Thomas Jefferson Document with Washi Paper
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Advice Needed: Methylcellulose vs Carboxymethylcellulose vs Sodium Carboxymethylcellulose
I know that methylcellulose is often used in paper and cloth conservation processes. I also know that a PVA-mix with methylcellulose is in use by bookbinders — that mix allows lengthening of the time of drying of the PVA glue. I’ve even used the mix myself while I was studying at the American Academy of Bookbinding. However, since the time of my study I still haven’t bought any methylcellulose here in Moscow.
Medieval Bookbinding Tutorials
One of the things I’d like to add to my bookbinding schedule is a course on the Medieval bookbinding styles: Carolingian, Romanesque, Gothic, etc. Even girdle books, I suppose.
Simple Sewing Frame for Bookbinders Version 2.0 at My Etsy Store
I’ve been selling this simple sewing frame for almost two years now. Initially it was even simpler. I wanted to have a cheap and fast in production sewing frame to give to my students at Bookbinding 101 class. Production cost for the version 0.1 was $15-20.
Rare 18th Century Book Restoration
Book Title: Francisci a Mesgnien Meninski LEXICI Arabico Persico – Tvrcici (Tomus Qvartvs)
When Your Student Does a Better Job Than You
I love my students. They are smart. They are creative and inventive. They listen (and do not listen) and they always try to do their best. Yesterday I had another wonderful class, and I’m in a wonderful mood once again =)
Sharpening a Pencil with a Bench Grinder
My bookbinding workshop now is located in the same room with my woodworking workshop. This offers some benefits and has its drawbacks. The one major problem is omnipresent wood dust. It is the reason I want to make map cabinets for my bookbinding materials as soon as possible.
Bad Service
I have to confess to a strange experience that happened to me lately. I’ve been making a portfolio folder for a new client recently. Everything was fine. Folder was covered with bookbinding cloth and a layer of paper over the cloth.
iBookBinding.com Updated
This is just a fast update on how the iBookBinding.com looks like. I had to make some changes to WordPress and installed plugins lately. These changes were due very long ago, but as it always happens to be, when you start with some small updates, a working day later you find out that you have to change almost everything.
Video: Making of the Rice Paper
Check this video. Narration is in Chinese, however, the footage is almost self-explanatory.
Video: Binding a Huge Anniversary Book
Ten days ago, I have received an order an offer to bind an anniversary book for the upcoming 25th celebration of the beginning of the academic year at the lyceum where I have spent my three last school years.
Furnishing My New Bookbinding (and Woodworking) Workshop
This week I have spent not only working on my current bookbinding projects, but also planning and building some things for my new workshop.
Building a Fake Rounded Spine for a Box
Couple of weeks ago I have shared with you my experience with soft weights. I needed them during construction of false rounded spines for a box project. Today I would like to share my thoughts on making those false spines.
Quick and Dirty Box Making Jig
What I truly love about bookbinding (woodworking, other crafts) is that there is always a chance to experiment, find some new tricks, small hacks and create strange jigs. Currently I’m working on a couple of large boxes (for dolls) designed to resemble books. The project brought me a lot of fun, and I plan to share all of it in time =)
What Makes a Book a Book? by TED-Ed
There are some historical discrepancies in the video, still I like the approach very much =)
