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#bookmaking

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Sean Bala

Small #bookbinding update! I've been dormant since little one came in October but I'm getting ready to dust my tools off soon.

I recently purchased a new laptop case from a great #Canadian #Etsy shop that specializes in making crafts from old kimonos. The artist offers packs of scrap pieces perfect for A5 journals. Really excited to get started!

If you like them, check it out here:

etsy.com/listing/1549940324/8-

A row of 8 colorful scraps of Japanese fabrics laid out on a bamboo table.
#Art#Handmade#Bookmaking
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Hollie

For #MakersHour today, hello, I’m Hollie and here’s what I’m working on…

1) A small watercolor swatching book for relaxation, decided not to put a cover on it and just painted squares instead.
2) A new text block clamped together, still unsewn
3) A finished text block in French stitch, which is to be a collection of sketches made while I have regular Sunday brunch with a friend - still uncovered
4) The first page of the brunch book

#bookbinding #BookMaking @MakersHour

Small handmade watercolor booklet with blue and green squares covering the top half. Linen bands on the left side hold the binding together.
A text block of white watercolor paper, held up by a hand and clamped together with monster huge binder clips.
A text block viewed from the spine, white watercolor paper bound with French stitch in white waxed linen thread and beige linen tapes supporting it.
A watercolor spread of two different Sundays of brunches, sketches of a tea strainer, a purple teapot, a small Dutch baby, and a very weird and funny tipper container of gifted breakfast sausages. In the corners are lists of topics we talked about, blurred for privacy.
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Sherri Koehler (She/Her)

Last week I made a journal for #Februllage2025 with mixed-media #CansonPaper. It’s a 5-hole saddle-stitch, waxed linen binding with a sample of wallpaper as a cover. This is my favorite kind of journal to make!

I’ve put the list of prompts on one page, it’s a great excuse to use my fountain pens! I plan to make a collaged title page, hopefully before the month is over!

A somewhat shiny journal with orange threads at the spine. The cover is made from a wallpaper sample that’s silver flecked with ivory. A finger is holding it closed.
The list of prompts from an earlier post in this thread. Each prompt is handwritten, several different inks have been used.
A hand is lifting the cover to show there’s a collage added to the page opposite the prompt. Collage is next in thread, fully described.
#bookmaking#ArtJournal#HandmadeBook
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Hollie

For my first-ever #MakersHour post, here’s the first hand bound book I ever made, in 1999. I love it so much. It’s filled with photos and journal entries. I haven’t made another book exactly like this one since, but learned Coptic stitch a few years ago and just finished a class on French stitch. I do hope to make some others like this one (I think a cork cover could be beautiful), I just need to relearn the stitching technique.

Oh and HI! I’m Hollie! :)

#bookbinding #bookMaking @MakersHour

A hand bound book with a leather cover, with a strap that wraps around it and ties to a button on the right.
Bottom view of book, showing the chunky cream-colored pages.
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CassiesCraftCoven

Heyyyy mastodon!

It’s time for a snapshot #introduction of me, and how I'm hoping to contribute to this platform

My name is Cassie and I run a Philadelphia based community craft and art group. The group started 9 years ago on another well known platform and over the years it stopped serving our purposes. My hope is that this space can help connect our local community and inspire others to follow suit.

I prefer she/her and they/them pronouns and I default to using they/them pronouns with new people that don’t specify a preference.

I'm an #artist, #crafter, #organizer, and #designer. In order of most experienced to least, I utilize and teach the following skills: #leatherwork #accessorydesign #handembroidery #chainstitchembroidery #basketweaving #handbuildingclay #bookmaking #printing #surfacedesign #naturaldyeing #felting #spinningyarn #painting #drawing

I like to create, I have a love of aquatic fish, mushrooms, bugs, bones, prismatic colors, texture, line work, anything tufted, and gin is the way to my heart.

I look forward to sharing my creations and offering support with questions about any skillsets that I am able!

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Hollie

Made a tiny book today! I haven’t bound a book since I took a class right before the pandemic started. It was a basic coptic stitch binding. I came home, made three more, and then got distracted (story of my life) and haven’t made any since. This one is full of errors and I couldn’t recall half what I learned in class and I had trouble finding answers in YouTube videos (though to be fair I’m rapidly running out of patience for YouTube - just write a blog post!). But I love it.

A small bound book of watercolor paper, in a hand, the pages fanning open.
A small bound book of watercolor paper with a green cover, showing the deckled edge of the paper, held by a hand.
#BookMaking
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Hollie

Fellow bookmaking f(r)iends: Thirty seconds into this video, she has a great visual of why folding with the grain is so much better than folding against the grain, and I love it when something kinda makes sense in class, but then a great visual makes it BLOOM into total, complete, obvious sense that I will carry with me always.

youtube.com/watch?v=5VxME6OIQS

YouTube5 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started BookbindingBy Nik the Booksmith
#BookMaking#Bookbinding#BookArts
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Hollie

I’m in the middle of another bookmaking class. I freaking love this, every step. I even enjoy the math of it, the precision. I wish I just made and sold books. I saw an interview recently with Elizabeth Gilbert, where she talked about a journaling/prayer practice she does where she writes whatever she needs to hear from her higher power the most, and I think if I did that what I’d most want to hear is, “Put all the old bullshit career pressures you feel down, and just make books.”

A stack of signatures (folded booklets of white watercolor paper).
A stack of handmade books that my teacher brought with her to class, all of which have neat French or Coptic stitched bindings so the books lay flat when open.
#bookmaking
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Sean Bala

I wanted to share some of my work for #PortfolioDay. I do #bookmaking and #bookbinding in my spare time. I love doing something with my hands. I've had to take a small break since our child was born but I hope to get back into the swing of things in the new year with better paper, new ideas, and more patience. Please see the next post with links to over a many projects from over the past year!

#Handmade #Craft #Books #Bookstodon #Art #MastoArt #Handcraft #Paper #Stationary

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A cluttered artist's workbench with various supplies including a cutting mat, a ruler, a blue pencil, and pieces of beige board, with hints of handwritten notes and a metal box in the background.
A collection of various handmade notebooks on a bamboo desk. In the top row are two small pamphlet stitch books. In the middle row are two Coptic stitch books, two medium sized pamphlet stitch books, and two large pamphlet stich books. The bottom row has two accordion style books, two stab bind books, and one smaller pamphlet stitch books.
Five handmade books on a bamboo table. On the top are two Coptic stitch books. One has a cloth cover in black with Jaipuri print. The other has a blue cover with a photo print of a prominent modern art piece. The last one on the top row is a small pamphlet stich book with a sticker from India Coffee House. On the second row is a cloth bound accordion book with a cloth cover with red flowers. The other is a Coptic stich sketchbook with a plaid cloth cover and a postcard from the Portland Saturday market.
Closed handmade book with a brown spine and blue-and-white patterned cover on a bamboo desk.
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Sean Bala

#Bookbinding collection for #portfolioday

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mas.to/@seanbala/1119946832253
mas.to/@seanbala/1118849634098
mas.to/@seanbala/1119107465929
mas.to/@seanbala/1115528424438
mas.to/@seanbala/1103816972182

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A blue notebook featuring the NASA logo, which includes a blue circle with stars and a red swoosh. The background is a wooden surface.
mas.toSean Bala (@seanbala@mas.to)Attached: 3 images #Bookmaking on Labor Day! Still working through "Handmade Books At Home" by Chanel Ly. This is a soft- cover travel journal that combines French link stitch and glue. Love that it lays flat and the stiching looks elegant. Still don't like gluing as much and her instructions can be obtuse. Still, nice to try some new techniques and practice old ones (and doing work for me!) 1/2 #Bookbinding #Craft #Crafts #Handmade #Handicraft #Art #MastoArt #Books #Bookstodon #LaborDay
#Handmade#Craft#Books
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Sean Bala

#Bookmaking on Labor Day! Still working through "Handmade Books At Home" by Chanel Ly. This is a soft- cover travel journal that combines French link stitch and glue. Love that it lays flat and the stiching looks elegant. Still don't like gluing as much and her instructions can be obtuse. Still, nice to try some new techniques and practice old ones (and doing work for me!)

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A blue notebook featuring the NASA logo, which includes a blue circle with stars and a red swoosh. The background is a wooden surface.
The image shows the side view of a handmade book with white pages and colorful thread binding. A hand is holding the book against a wooden surface, with a floral-patterned background visible.
An open, blank notebook showing two empty white pages with a red binding stitch in the center, placed on a wooden surface.
#Bookbinding#Craft#Crafts
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Claire Barnes

I've been fascinated by her posts on making medieval inks & manuscripts, so have just preordered 'Medieval Scriptorium' by Sara Charles. It's due out next week, & a review by Richard Ovenden is at archive.is/WFSlG.

[Edit: original paywalled again, link replaced with archived version.]

Here's the book description on Sara's website: teachingmanuscripts.com/public

#NewBook #medieval #scriptorium #manuscript #bookmaking @medievodons @bookstodon

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