DAS Bookbinding

This is part one of four on making a rounded and backed cased book. In a cased book the cover and bookblock are made separately and brought together in an operation called casing-in. In this video I will sew the bookblock.

This is part two of four on making a rounded and backed cased book. In a cased book the cover and bookblock are made separately and brought together in an operation called casing-in. In this video I will add the endpapers, glue the spine, trim the edges, round and back, add headbands, and finally line the spine.

This is part three of five on making a rounded and backed cased book. In a cased book the cover and bookblock are made separately and brought together in an operation called casing-in. In this video I will determine the size of the pieces that make the case and cut them out. The video was getting too long to put the case together, and thus there will be a part 3B, or is that part 4?

This is part four of five on making a rounded and backed cased book. In a cased book the cover and bookblock are made separately and brought together in an operation called casing-in. In this video I will completing the construction of the case.

This is part five and last in the series on making a rounded and backed cased book. In a cased book the cover and bookblock are made separately and brought together in an op

In this video I'll demonstrate how to remove staples from pamphlets carefully, so as to not damage the paper. Because staples are often rusty I will discuss why rust stains are very problematic and difficult to remediate.

Bind23 is the latest Australasian bookbinding conference being held in Brisbane in July.

This is the first in what I hope will be an ongoing series where I answer questions from Patreons and from the comments on YouTube. The Bind23 conference activities got in the way of finishing the rounded and backed cased book this week. The final video in this series will be out either next week, or the week after. I may have to take a week off for the conference.

This video demonstrates lacing on overbands of a Spanish style model of a medieval stationery binding. These books were used for writing in, such as record keeping and accounting. The bands are the wide strips of leather that wrap around the spine of the book. This protects and reinforces the spine of the book. While the bands were usually attached with adhesive, because of the heavy use these books got, the lacing ensured the bands stayed in place. The lacing was parchment, leather or alum tawed skin. While the banding and lacing had a function, it was obviously done to be decorative.

In this video I apply modern corner protectors to a book.

This is the second in the ongoing series where I answer questions from Patreons and from the comments on YouTube.

The label binding was invented by Carmencho Arregui as a low intervention binding for books that had lost their original binding. I think it has an application in binding pamphlets, periodicals and other series in a way that has minimal impact on the original material.

In this video I will take 10 minutes to explain why any quality thin cotton or linen is an acceptable substitute for scrim/mull/crash/super or other fancy lining and guarding fabrics like Fray not and aero linen and aero cotton. Starching the substitute material will make it easier to handle.

The standard cased book has tipped on folio endpapers. A great upgrade is to use sewn-on endpapers, and this video demonstrates a modern take on the common made endpaper; the flexible made endpaper.

In this video I demonstrate a binding structure proposed by Randy Silverman in 1987 as a conservation binding specification. Silverman defines a pamphlet as a booklet of up to 3 sections. I propose this structure is also ideal for binding new material.

In this video I demonstrate the 2 and 3 section version of a binding structure proposed by Randy Silverman in 1987 as a conservation binding specification. Silverman defines a pamphlet as a booklet of up to 3 sections. I propose this structure is also ideal for binding new material.

In this video I will look at using paper labels on books.

Library Corners are anther way of doing bookbinding corners with bookcloth. The cloth used in the video is Arbelave bookcloth, 2.4mm generic acid free grey binders' board and the adhesive is Evasol EVA in the demo.

In this video I demonstrate how you could make your own paperback book using basic tools you probably have at home. Sorry this video is late. I got caught up trying to do fancy graphics in the editing. As you can see, I failed.

Yes, I know, some of these aren't budget but they would make nice gifts.