Crafty Stuff

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Finished three books (all blank) yesterday, instead of folding laundry. One a chain-stitch binding, which turned out mre secure than my first one, but the text block still slides a bit in the binding. Think that's unavoidable with that style. Did a second leather-covered Coptic, with a button & cord closure rather than the strap that wraps around the book. The last, and the one that kept me up too late last night, was my first real hard-cover book--sew the textblock together, make the hinged cover with rigid spine, use the endpapers to hold the textblock in. By says it's not bad for my first one, though he said it was about as thick as I could get with that assembly style (6 signatures, 40 pages each, typing paper). And I made the spine part of the cover a bit too wide, but that was very hard to judge. Must remember to have him show me the style of stitching done all from the outside; the one I used was stitched from the inside of the signatures, so you had to have them open half the time, and it's hard to get it tight enough without the thread slicing the pages.