Friday, January 27, 2012

Bookbinding 101 Sewing Headbands Session 2

This is another tutorial demonstration on sewn headbands, which is "Two cores with beads in three colors". Some call double core headbands the "French Double". There are different methods and styles of double core headbands, and this is one of them. As I recorded this video at home, the lighting wasn't ideal, resulting the footage to be too dark occasionally, and my hands created shadows.... I apologize for that. Anyway, enjoy designing your own headbands! It's really tricky to film headbanding, so I don't know if I wanna do another one, really... But, I think I should do a quick demo on the simplest sewn headband, which is often used for medieval bindings & how to MAKE headbands in case people don't have time to sew headbands. Well, time will tell whether I'll do it or not.. I'll be pretty preoccupied with this particular work I'll be working on within a week, (I'm just waiting for the material to arrive.) so I won't have time to make another video for a few weeks.

9 comments:

  1. Congratulations for your wonderful work. I have seen all the 5 videos you make. I want to ask is how you make the front cover of the book and how to adjust the back of the book.Thanks

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    1. I just made a post to answer your question. Check out "Basic construction of a book case" - http://bookbinderschronicle.blogspot.com/2012/02/basic-construction-of-book-case.html Thanks for your kind words!

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  2. Beautiful!!! I am really glad that I found your blog. Congratulations and best wishes...

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    1. Dziękują za wasze uprzejme słowa. Staję się zwolennikiem waszego blog, też!

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  3. I have hot been able to sew a two core headband correctly in spite all my efforts, until I saw your video. Extremely useful! Thank you so much for sharing your valuable knowledge and for doing it in such accessible manner. I believe I speak in behalf of many others when I say we are grateful!

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  4. Teo indeed is right. Thank you, again!

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  5. Какая же Вы молодец! Ракурс камеры, цветопередача- все сделано превосходно.Содержание материала выше всяких похвал!Спокойно показываете то, чем другие другие мастера никогда не поделятся. Браво! Очень рад, что нашел Ваш блог, с нетерпением буду ждать новых уроков. Спасибо за время, потраченное на их создание. В свою очередь, если смогу быть Вам хоть чем-то полезен, отвечу на любой вопрос по офсетной печати.

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    1. Privyeht Aleksandr,

      Forgive me for writing in English. - I don't speak Russian.

      I'm glad that my video was useful for you, and thank you very much for your compliment.

      I was using "Google Translate" to read your comment, so I'm assuming you asked about offset printing? If so, because I'm not a printer, I can't tell you how the offset printing is done, unfortunately. Maybe, you asked about letterpress printing? Well, I'm not an expert on letterpress printing either though I know a thing or two about the craft. I'm definitely not in the position where I can teach it with any confidence.

      If you have questions about bookbinding, you are talking to the right person. :-)

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  6. I am sorry I was under the misapprehension that you speak Russian. I am the print instructor and I would be glad to be helpful and answer any questions you might have concerning offset printing. I do not have any questions about binding so far, because I am at the early stage of sewing an inner book. Where a book-binding tool like the one you use in the video can be bought?

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