Travel Logbook with French Link Bookbinding
Bookbinding Lessons: Paper Preparation
A course by Infinitos Lugares , Artist and Bookbinder
Joined February 2019
Joined February 2019
About the video: Bookbinding Lessons: Paper Preparation
Overview
“The first step in the binding process is to prepare the paper: folding it and punching it for stitching. Here I will show you how to do it.”
In this video lesson Infinitos Lugares addresses the topic: Bookbinding Lessons: Paper Preparation, which is part of the Domestika online course: Travel Logbook with French Link Bookbinding. Create personalized travel notebooks from scratch using collage and French link bookbinding techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Bookbinding Lessons: Paper Preparation In this lesson, we'll start working with paper. First, you need to divide your paper into booklets. You want them to be as similar as possible. Normally, when one uses paper of the same grammage, for example, if you wanted ten booklets, you divide your papers into groups of four. In this case, since they have different weights, what we'll do to order them is put the heavier papers in groups of three sheets and the lighter papers in groups of five. That will help compensate. In this case, I divided my sheets into nine booklets. They go from lightest to ...”
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Course summary for: Travel Logbook with French Link Bookbinding
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Category
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, Bookbinding, Collage, DIY, Fine Arts
Infinitos Lugares
A course by Infinitos Lugares
Laura Bernal is an artist and bookbinder from Bogotá, Colombia. Her work combines all her knowledge, including bookbinding and the arts, to create unique, beautiful, and functional objects using paper. Everything about books inspires her, from how they are made to how they tell stories.
In 2017, she founded Infinitos Lugares, a bookbinding and collage workshop in Bogotá. It is a space to create, as well as a kind of lab in which to experiment and share her love for paper and books. Since then, she has developed notebooks with personalized collages and for brands such as El Deambulante, Historia a Pie, and Posdata.
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