Joe Ganley [http://ganley.org/]

Writing code since 1979

I have been a professional software engineer for over 10 years. I have written many kinds of software, but my particular strengths are interactive graphics applications, compilers and interpreters, and algorithms.

I also enjoy writing, woodworking, and home improvement. Also this. NVConsumer.

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Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Bookbinding

One of the things on my "life list" is to learn how to bind books. Toby Craig writes an excellent photojournal on his bookbinding techniques. I believe this is standard "perfect binding," and in any event it's just the kind I want to be able to do.

Chasing past this, I found a few other relevant resources:

Brian Sawyer has a Flickr photo set showing the handbinding of a hardback book.

Douglas Jones describes his technique for binding photocopies of out-of-print books. Great tutorial, though I find his binding technique a little less aesthetically pleasing than Craig's.

LJ has a handmade book community.

Sheila Summers also writes a bookbinding tutorial, though again, I find her technique less pleasing than Craig's.

Handbound is a bookbinding blog.

Graeme Birchall describes a very quick-and-dirty binding technique. This is definitely "quick and dirty," but much easier than the above techniques.

There's just something about paper, isn't there? I was cleaning out some old stuff the other day, and it struck me that I still have reports I wrote in the third grade, but I have electronic data from six years ago that I cannot read (it's on Macintosh zip disks, and I have neither a Mac nor a zip drive any more).

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Comments:

I have added the entire contents of "The Art of Bookbinding 1897" online if you would like to read it.
http://www.aboutbookbinding.com
Thanks
Mark

# posted by Anonymous : 10:34 AM