#coptic notebook

[mythrilthread]

Made a little coptic+french link journal for keeping notes while playing Book of Travels (which is a very beautiful tiny multiplayer game about world-exploration).

Used official art from the anniversary bundle for everything, marked different sections of the journal with art too (a page for notes about the character, a signature for notes on rare ingredients, a signature for note on equipment, and the rest of the book after the black and white picture is for general quests and story notes).

It’s A6, and has 100 pages of 160 gsm (ish) kraft paper with dot grid.

#bookbinding #fanbinding #mythril thread books #might and delight #book of travels #coptic notebook

[nocturnus33]

This is a coptic notebook I bind for my daughter. I made it from the pretty box of soaps she gave me for Christmas. I want it to have a rustic vibe, so I let the cardboards edges in sight and I choose a recycled sugarcane paper.

It's been a while since I've done the coptic sticht, and I made a few mistakes.

All in all, I'm pleased with it. My daughter liked it, and that makes me happy.

#notebook #book binding #renegade bindery #My bindings #notebooks #My projects #My stuff #My progress #coptic stitch #coptic notebook #coptic binding #handmade #handmadebook #hand made books

[towns-end-bindery]

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My first time actually recording myself sewing. I’m pretty new to making reels on IG, so it’s pretty simple overall.

This is a simple Coptic stitch journal for a friend. I really like the watercolor leaf patterns of the paper I used for the covers. Feels right for the season as well.

There were several moments where I had to undo my stitching because I got carried away with the rhythm.

11-18-2023

#bookbinding #handmade #book binding #handbound book #arts and crafts #bookbinder #hand bound book #handmade books #hand bound books #handbound #handmade book #handmade journals #journal #coptic notebook #coptic stitch #coptic binding #sketchbook #notebook

[izzi-illustrates]

Hello! Would you like a half price sketchbook? I'm having a clearance sale on some of my older sketchbooks, which are half price until the end of February.

Link in first reblog x

#bookbinding #handmade #sale #etsy sale #50% sale #coptic binding #paper crafts #artists on tumblr #etsy sellers on tumblr #sketchbooks #notebooks #journal

[shijiujun]

[Reserved] New Shen Zechuan notebook with 120g paper 🌸

#bookbinding #QJJ #min makes #Coptic stitch #Shen zechuan #notebook #sketchbook #stationery #journaling #scrapbooking #danmei notebooks #将进酒 #danmei

[greenhorn-art]

Annual enemies, eternal friends — here's the coptic bound notebook I made for Pennsic this year!

I wanted a notebook to take notes in at Pennsic, and since I've now taken up bookbinding as a hobby, thought why not make one myself? And so I decided to take a stab at coptic bookbinding (which is a period method :D )

FONTS: Alegreya (Google Fonts), The Quality Brave (DaFont)

IMAGES: Tiger from Rawpixel (ID: 6258161); Dragon from Rawpixel (ID: 6258161)

MATERIALS: Domtar Earthchoice multipurpose copy paper, cream, 11"x17" cut in half to form short grain letter-sized paper; Neenah 65lb (176gsm) cardstock, bright white; waxed linen thread, 30/3 size; 2mm binder's board; wheat paste, 1:4 flour to water.

PROGRAMS USED: Affinity Photo V2, Affinity Designer V2 (Bought Affinity during the recent summer sale. The background removal brush very useful.)

The book itself is really thin (only 2 signatures of 4 letter-sized sheets, folded folio style), but it's more than enough for what I need it for. (I also ended up making a few quarto-size notebooks for my family too!)

When designing the covers I made sure to include the important information of which Pennsic it's for, and when (in hindsight, including the society date or mundane year as well would have been nice). Then I added a tiger for the East Kingdom and a dragon for the Middle, to represent the two sides of the Pennsic War.

The covers were designed as a spread, with both covers forming the entire image. The Tiger of the East is on the right (front cover) because east is on the right of a compass. The Dragon of the Middle has a stripe behind it to reference the kingdom's arms.

When choosing the images I wanted them to have a similar art style in order to make it all look a bit more cohesive. That being said, the art for Western-style dragons did not look remotely like the tigers'. So I went with a Japanese (-esque?) art style — less accurate to the European-style heraldry (snake vs lizard dragon), but it looks nice.

I especially liked the postures of the two beasts. The tiger is making a playful bow to the dragon, which almost seems to return the gesture. And doesn't that just feel fitting for Pennsic?

#bookbinding #coptic #notebook #pennsic #sca #society for creative anachronism

[aneenasevla]

It's been a long time that I've made a Sketchbook

A5 size, Copta/Coptic Stitch Technique, hardcover and middle made with recycled paper 70 GSM. Decorated with ColorPlus, Postcard paper and Washitape. I used wax thread to bind it.

#bookbinding #sketchbook #crafting #paper craft #craftmanship #coptic stitch #notebook #stationary

[signaturesnstitches]

Here’s one of the many journals I’ve made! This little book is 4.5 inches x 6 inches and is sewn in the coptic stitch binding method ✨

I also made the pint on the cover, it’s my sheep character, Sheepy 🐑💕

Currently available in my shop, link in bio!

#bookbinding #books #handbound books #journals #bullet journal #notebooks #stationery #sheep #sketchbook #coptic stitch #booklr #cute stationery #bujo #field notes #art journal

[lady-wallace]

Still time to take advantage of my summer journal sale! I’m trying to clear out some stock to make way for fall ones, so go wild!

I have also added my journal kits to the mix if you want to try out making your own and learning a little bookbinding! 

If you don’t see anything you like, I also do customs which are also on sale for 10% off

Sale runs through the end of August.

SHOP HERE

#journals #journaling #anime journaling #anime journal #small notebooks #small business #custom notebooks #custom journals #custom sketchbooks #jjba #journal kits #diy journal #coptic binding #coptic stitch #bookbinding #bookbinding kit #summer sale #mini sketchbook #pandora hearts #black butler #bbc merlin

[speakeronthewall]

The handful of coptic stitch books I've made over the past month!

Some of these are blank paper and some are lined:

Anyway, I enjoy making these enough that I'm just sort of building a stock of them to sell at conventions or something (except for the blue one--it was the first book I made and is my personal one, lol).

#bookbinding #book making #coptic stitch #sketchbook #notebook #journal

[ssugarsp00n]

спички бытовые красная цена

спички бытовые красная цена

#coptic stitch #handmade notebook #bookbinding #спички бытовые красная цена

[mythrilthread]

I've been making some notebooks as gifts. Those are all A5, the green ones are for a couple (yeah, his and hers coptic notebooks), and the cover with the purple flowers is reusable, the textblock is secured under the endpapers, but not glued in.

#mythril thread books #bookbinding #notebook #coptic notebook #reusable cover notebook

[newtsnotebook]

I decided on a whim a couple of days ago that I needed to get into bookbinding - so here's my first try at a coptic bound notebook made with things I had lying around the house

#bookbinding #coptic stitch #junk journal #mine #journal inspiration

[gargoyleandgremlinpress]

Binderary Day One!

Binderary is the equivalent of NaNoWriMo for bookbinding, a month of personal goals and free workshops put on by @renegadepublishing. (Seriously, come join the Discord if you're at all interested in fanbinding! Tons of resource and friendly people.)

I have the same goal as last year, which is just to try to finish up as many of my WIPS as possible. Last year, I managed fourteen books, but had more sewn text blocks to start with.

This year, I've got four text block sewn and glued (one of them just needs a title and missed the photo), twelve more printed plus a blank notebook for a belated Christmas present, and... well. Maybe I have seven more to print. Perhaps there are another twelve typesets I wanted to finish.

Let's be clear, I am not making forty-three books in February. But I WILL end the month with more books than I started with. My plan is to just keep going and see how far I get.

Tonight's progress! Stacked up the text blocks. Punched and sewed two, and glued one—with endpapers. (My mantra as I sewed: don't forget the endpapers, don't forget the endpapers, don't forget the endpapers...)

Also found one more text block plus a Coptic stitch notebook in this second photo that escaped the first stack. However, I'm missing a package of cardstock. I put it somewhere so very safe and obvious that it's completely vanished. Oops?

#binderary2024 #fanbinding #ficbinding

[hedgehog-moss]

how do you get into bookbinding? where do you start?

I took lessons for a few years in a bookbinding atelier back when I still lived in Paris; I really liked it. My grandmother also enjoyed bookbinding and she was happy to see me take up her hobby, and gave me most of her tools. The (vertical) books on the shelf below are examples of stuff I’ve made over the years (I also gave others away as birthday gifts)—I made them out of very old books that were falling apart and that I got for almost nothing in secondhand bookshops, I love the feeling of rescuing a tattered old book and making a pretty and solid new cover and re-sewing the pages into it, like those stuffed animal restoration services where old friends are made new again :)

If you want to make proper books it's a bit of an investment at first (you need a binding press, a vice, a sewing frame, a guillotine, though you can DIY cheaper alternatives to some extent) but once you have this stuff it doesn't cost much as a hobby from then on, you can use scraps of cardboard / thread / paper from previous projects (the marbled paper I bought for my last book cost me 4€ and there's plenty left to make more covers out of it—that and a new pot of glue were the only things I bought for this project.)

By 'proper' books I just mean books with signatures that are sewn with ribbons (just looked it up and discovered they are called tapes in English), have a curved spine and generally look the way we picture a cloth- or leather-bound book to look; like these:

I made these back in Paris, but I haven't yet set up a little bookbinding atelier in my barn here as I meant to do (I will, some day!), so in the meantime I make simpler bindings that require fewer tools and a smaller workspace, like the ones I mentioned—Belgian secret binding and Japanese stab binding. You can find tutorials for these online and they would be a great place to start, the Japanese one especially, it's quite easy and you only need basic supplies (a glue brush, a nail to punch holes, a boxcutter, some solid cardboard and thread...) Pictured below: a Japanese binding (on the left) and a Belgian one I made a few years ago.

I'd suggest starting with binding little booklets that you've printed out yourself (or make pretty notebooks / sketchbooks, using blank paper) with these techniques (or other basic ones); then try binding a book (removing its original cover and re-binding it with covers you've made yourself, which is what I did here). You need to pick a book that's quite slim and has large margins, as you're going to lose a lot of margin space when you sew it without signatures (that’s why I use Japanese stab binding to re-bind my favourite poetry books)

In order to bind a larger book or one with narrower margins, you'll have to make signatures (or use a book that already has them, but un-sew them and re-sew them yourself), make a proper case rather than 'loose' covers, etc, and you'll need more specialised supplies. Someone on tumblr made this extremely exhaustive Google Doc that details every step of the process, and this other Google Doc that includes links to different resources / techniques (+ a glossary of bookbinding terminology) and where to buy supplies, in the US and various other countries (it's well-researched, I was surprised to find the small shop in Paris where I buy supplies in their list!)

It can be a bit daunting when you browse these documents to see how many steps and tools are involved, which is why it’s good to start with simpler bindings (Coptic bindings, pictured above ^ are another good in-between step, as they involve signatures but no tapes or curved spines, for example), and acquire more tools and supplies gradually if you end up enjoying this hobby!

#ask #i thought of making a step by step tutorial using the pics from the last book i made but i do so much... tinkering #it would be a very bad tutorial #''do this or maybe that? cut to this length or maybe more idk. i used my instinct. it didn't work on the first try or the second #i don't remember what i did here but it worked ok. here i improvised and then used the endpapers to hide small failures''

[cjlinton]

Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine rewired my brain last year so I made my co-players notebooks inspired by versions of their favorite Glass-Maker’s Dragon characters.

Top Left: @windienine's Leonardo de Montreal, Nightmares' Angel Top Right: @geostatonary's Rinley, the Troublemaker Bottom: @jeeyonshim's Natalia Koutolika, the Prodigy, inspired by this drawing.

The notebook inserts are applique and made with fabric scraps from other projects. I nearly always do cross stitch interiors because I think in grids, so the applique Natalia's spear (jewelry wire) were fun new challenges for me.

The notebooks are bound with coptic stitch, which means they're open spine and lay flat.

#bookbinding #chuubo's marvelous wish granting engine #sometimes everyone is So right about how good a game is