Travel Logbook with French Link Bookbinding
Bookbinding Lessons: Sewing 1
A course by Infinitos Lugares , Artist and Bookbinder
Joined February 2019
Joined February 2019
About the video: Bookbinding Lessons: Sewing 1
Overview
“Now you will learn how to do the French seam. I will show you how to prepare the thread, arrange the booklets and sew the notebook. This part is very exciting! You will also see how to glue the spine to join all the booklets together and ensure the resistance of the structure. ”
In this video lesson Infinitos Lugares addresses the topic: Bookbinding Lessons: Sewing 1, 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: The Covers We have reached the most exciting part of the process: the sewing. To take the spine measurements, measure the height of your notebook by the number of booklets. In this case, I have nine booklets. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine. Let's cut. Now you grab your thread. For this, beeswax. Beeswax on the thread helps it tangle less while sewing and it is easy to find. You can get it in health-food stores or in marketplaces. Pass the thread through the wax twice. Since it is so long, I have folded it in half and I'll thread it. Once, and a...”
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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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