"Books have been bound in human skin since at least the 15th century."
"Binding books are a key part of our world even if the digital age is trying."
"The hardest thing about bookbinding is that I still don't actually know what I'm doing while making video tutorials on how to do it. It's not a great combination."
"A great no sew binding option that not only allows your books to lay completely flat, which is great, but you also have the option of binding single pages and folded pages."
"The process is exactly the same regardless of what it is that you're binding, regardless of how thick it is."
"I think choose the best one of course and you can bind them together using the tab binding method, that would be pretty very cool."
"...so personally this type of binding is something that I will definitely come back to and I also absolutely love the black and gold combination as well..."
"So with all those nails clinched over, the escutcheon's attached, all I've got left to do to finish the book is to paste down the endpapers."
"The codex, this concept of stacking paper and stitching on one side, then binding it, we take it for granted."
"The parchment sheets were folded and nested to make gatherings, usually of 16 or 20 pages."
"It's bound in a way that it can lay flat... and the pages are quite thick... I mean even just that little bit of red makes me so happy."
"It's important to leave that little bit of space otherwise your cover will be way too loose and it won't hang on to your book."
"This is just making a nice little neat border and it's also a way to get the clasps on the other side."
"£8.99 but if you're making a book say that's I don't know six inches high or something like that you can get two out of one just cut it in half."
"So when I press my signatures, what I like to do instead of trying to set a weight on them when they're like that, I like to take about half of the signatures and flip them."
"Here is the front of the cover, the spine, the back cover, and here is the pellic material, it's gonna be shaped like this: cut up, back, cross back, cut up, up, back, cross."
"I highly recommend using cardstock cardboard packaging supplies to create your covers as well as antique or vintage books that are falling apart because it's a way of recycling helping the planet and then also you have a world of possibilities with how you can decorate these."
"The options for binding are very similar and very comparable."
"You just take your bone folder and you train the paper, that's going to make your book lay flatter nicely."
"You can create your own signatures to make journals."
"I am loving it, you guys. I highly recommend it. There's all sorts of interesting book bindings and bookmaking techniques in here."
"I'm a master bookbinder, I taught it at the Corcoran, I taught it at the Smithsonian."
"The art of hand binding books is now in decline."
"The methods you're using presumably have not changed for hundreds of years."
"The final bit, the pièce de résistance, is the lettering, that lovely gold lettering."
"I'm going to make a hard covered book and we're going to stitch our signatures together and put it in there and we're going to cover it."
"See how it's got a nice spine there and a nice binding."
"Making a book by hand by myself would be something really cool that I would love to try to do."
"You've got an actual book, and you can stop right here; it's beautiful, you don't have to do anything else to it."
"I have counted 30 folded pages for my book."
"I am stacking five folded pages together which will evenly divide into 30."
"This will amount to 20 pages counting front and back for each signature."
"This will give the spine more of a boxy look and not so much of a rounded look."
"A booklet that's been hand bound is so special."
"I am determined to find the easiest, most professional look to this binding."
"Leather is going to be a lovely thing to use to cover books."
"Look what we just did, we created a chipboard book cover and we're gonna use so much paper in this, it's gonna be so awesome."
"You want the signatures to be the exact same height as your book."
"I'm going to do a five-hole pamphlet stitch."
"I quite like doing a soft cover with handmade paper because it's fairly thick."
"I love that kind of stuff, the custom bound handmade gorgeous books."
"Now we have our four signatures ready and we can go ahead and add this into your book."
"PVA glue is a bookbinding glue. It's flexible, it allows your book to bend without the paper breaking and tearing."