Bookbinding 101 Sewing Headbands Session 2
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- This is another tutorial demonstration on sewn headbands, which is "Two cores with beads in three colors". Some call double core headbands the "French Double". As I recorded this video at home, the lighting wasn't ideal, resulting the footage to be too dark sometimes, and my hands created shadows occasionally. I apologize for that. Anyway, enjoy designing your own headbands, and thanks for your interest in the trade. ~ MHR
NOTE: As my purpose of creating these tutorial videos is to encourage general population to start getting involved in the bookbinding trade, I always try to demonstrate things with ordinary items as much as possible, so that it doesn't discourage viewers from trying it just because they don't have the particular equipment to do the job. The methods featured on my tutorial videos are very basic and often I have to change a little in order to make it more feasible to the beginners. So it should not reflect the real trade of bookbinding. Yet my instructions are thought through so that the end result will be perfectly decent if you follow them.
３色の糸と２本の芯を使ったお手本がこの動画だけでした。
とても有難いです。
初めてこのチャンネルを発見してから少しづつ製本を完成させる事が出来るようになりました。
１年で50冊程作りましたが、まだまだ苦手な工程が沢山あります。ブログも参考にしてます。
私の人生を変えてくれて感謝してます。
You must hear this a lot but I have to thank you for your videos which are the most detailed I’ve seen with so much thought going into your videos. Your a very good teacher. Thank you
I held my breath every second on watching... I have to remind myself I need to breathe... this is such a help for future references
your channels provides knowledge in extremely professional manner.
GREAT!
no questions left unanswered.
THX a lot !
You have the best binding videos on the net. Thank you for taking the time to shoot these and upload them. It give us do-it-yourselfers a ray of hope :)
I bump into your videos again and again, thank you so much MHR, you have the very best instructionals out there and if you would get this pestering modesty out of the way and reveal yourself, you ll be remembered as a great teachers for the future generations of bookbinders. We love you and we love how much you love bookbinding!
@LexHiram Answer to Q1: I’d NOT recommend waxing the thread for headbanding because1) the texture of the thread gets dull & looses its sheen which is important for the headband to look as if it’s a crown jewel of the book.2)The thread must be smooth in order to slide the wrap cleanly w/o effort.3) Considering the initial purpose of the headbands are to prevent dust from getting inside the signature folds over time, they will get dirty in short time if they are sticky with wax. (Yuck!)
your work is amazing! please keep your tutorials coming!!!! thank you so much for the time and energy you put in this tutorials for us to learn!
Thank you very much for your reply, it has been a very useful explanation.
I did not expect that the book would shrink when it was pressed.
Thank you again ;)
VEry fine and precious explainations for old and classical Bookbinding. Thanks for your help !
~~Continues from the previous reply~~ So, although the headband is sewn inside the first and last signatures and appears shorter than the spine, it will be tight and neat after the book is bound. Also, a second note is that the edge of the headbands will often interfere with a process of a more traditional binding method if the headbands are sewn from the edge to the edge on the spine. I hope this answered your question. :-) MHR
Awesome. I am looking for this video for very long. Keep it up. Thanks you very much
Gracias..hermoso arte..he disfrutado con sus videos y espero pronto ver el libro terminado..saludos desde Chile.
It's often safe to make the headbands slightly shorter than the width of the spine to take an account of a minor "shrinkage" that occurs when the book is pressed, meaning the spine width gets slightly shorter at the pressure, thus the headbands becomes "wobbled" if their length is exactly the same as the spine at the time of their placement. (because it turns out to be larger (longer) than the spine width.) ~~Continues to the following reply~~
@agentc0re First of all, "paperback"books are basically a collection of loose sheets simply blued on the spine, which is essentially like a note pad. You might want to check if your "soft cover" books are actually a paperback, or sewn with thread. A lot of thick books like Feynman's are machine sewn w/ thread w/o tapes (called Smyth sewing) even though they have soft paper covers on them. (Vise verse, many paperback books have hard covers these days.) ~Continue to the next comment~
~~Continues from the previous reply~~ So, although the headband is sewn inside the first and last signatures (you call it booklet.) and appears shorter than the spine, it will be tight and neat after the book is bound. Also, a second note is that the edge of the headbands will often interfere with a process of a more traditional binding method if the headbands are sewn from the edge to the edge on the spine. I hope this answered your question. :-) MHR
@LexHiram As for the use of a needle that I used to refine the alignment of the wraps, I use it because it's small and does what it's supposed to do precisely without any effort. As you might have noticed, I don't have long finger nails because of my profession. Even if I kept my nails long, personally, I wouldn't use them to correct the headband wraps because finger nails are bigger than a tip of a needle. ~Continues to the next comment~
@agentc0re Continued from the previous comment~Whether your books are paperback or sewn, you can definitely have hard covers put on them, no problem. Cloth tapes are only used for the sewing of a book, so if the original book is a paperback, or sewn without tapes, you don't just glue them on the spine. Instead, when replacing the soft paper cover with hard cover, bookbinders will glue mull (a piece of fabric) on the spine for the hinge & spine integrity. ~Continue to the next comment~
I love these videos, but I keep expecting to see Salvador Dali appear. It's the color-tone of the video. Also, I listen to the music of Argentinian lute player Eduardo Egüez while I watch these. Thank you so much for your work, it's really inspiring.
@LexHiram Answer to Q. 2: The problem with the particular scissors used on the video wasn’t the sharpness of the blades, but was its size. It was too big to get close to the end wraps. Exacto knife or a pair of scissors with a smaller and finer head would be ideal.
humm,,, Sorry,, I don't quite understand your question.. Is it something to do with sewing books that you are asking me about? Or it's actually about headbands?
@agentc0re I'm not sure how you’re gonna use a hair dryer to remove the current cover(?) But you can just rip it off the book, (carefully!) if the book has a soft paper cover. & Yes,putting a piece of super(mull) on the spine is the way to go, for integrity. Make sure to put endsheets on the book before putting a super on the spine. I'm saying this, assuming you can make a hard book case. I haven't made a tutorial video on case making, but I will in the near future. Anyway, have fun!
Very good
Thanks ! ! !
@agentc0re Continued from the previous comment~As for "stitching a paperback book", IF the book is thin, you probably can stab sew it ( like a traditional Japanese sewing technique). However, stab sewing cannot be done on a thick book like yours. If you simply want a hard cover for your book, I'd suggest you to forget about "stitching with threads" and whether it's paperback or sewn, just replace the cover with a hard one without compromising the construction of the book. ~Continues~
@LexHiram Continues from the previous comment ~~ I'm not criticizing other bookbinders who use whatever to get the result they are after, but don't you think there must be a reason why the work you saw on the video you mentioned was awkward? Anyway, as long as you get a nice consistent alignment, use whatever suits you. The thing is, after about 1/4~1/3 through the sewing, you won't need to correct the wraps: it just warps nicely by itself. :-)
@agentc0re Continued from the previous comment~ I haven't made a tutorial video on making cases (covers) yet, but there must be videos on the subject on CZcams. You can make it yourself, or if you want it done professionally, and want a title stamped on the cover or something, contact a local bookbinder, yeah? I think it'll probably cost like $50~$90 per cloth hard cover book, depending on the size of the book, materials & details, like stamping titles. :-)
Another great video, thank you. I'll definitely need to watch it a few more times to take it all in, though :)
A couple of quick questions before I do, though...
Question 1 : Would it be much help when sliding the threads over the core, to wax it first, or is it simple enough when pushing with the needle? I'm asking because I watched a video of someone trying to do it with their finger nails, and it looked pretty awkward.
In the video, the first booklet has no headbands. My question is if at the put the covers is seen that the first booklets do not have headbands or is hidden.
Thank you very much for the tutorials and congratulations on your work.
have you thought of making this vid... in color it would be easier to distinguish the colors
Question 2: Those scissors that you used for cutting the cords looked pretty sharp, but you didn't seem to think that they were ideal for the job. Would you have preferred a scalpel, or something similar...?
I was wondering what to do if you run out of thread in the middle of making headbands?? Should I just restart and use more thread or do I bind it off as if it were the final wrap and then start it again cause I feel like if I did it like that it would be too much thread in one place
A hole previously made from sewing the signatures together. :-)
Gracias por los vídeos
This may be a silly question but, I'm guessing you add the head bands before adding the super/mull to the spine?
Yes.
One thing I realized when I was planning out the pattern was that there has to be an even number of wraps for all colors, each time you change colors. Is this right? I'm only assuming that you need an even number for each colored section if you are wrapping twice around/in-between each core.
I'm not sure if I'm missing something but where does the 'beads' come into play? I was half expecting you were going to add beads to the headbands but it never happened
As I'm watching, I've noticed that you don't begin in the first signature nor do you go to the last signature. Is this preference, tradition, or is there a structural reason for your practice?
Is the video silent ???
Für das handgestochene Kapital, gibt es auch noch andere Methoden, doch es war sehr interessant.
I’m not excellent, but good enough to give bound books as gifts. Does anyone know how I can get Clive Cussler, Tom Clancy, Dan Brown, JK Powling or Nora Roberts/JD Robb unbound so that I can fold, make signatures, bind and cover the books? Any help is greatly appreciated.
I don't think the publishers would allow that due to copyright. Why don't you buy a copy of whatever the book you like, remove the original cover, and put on a new cover that you made?
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you could really use some music in the background otherwise great video
ok
The answer is no, not at all.
It's often safe to make the headbands slightly shorter than the width of the spine to take an account of a minor "shrinkage" that occurs when the book is pressed, meaning the spine width gets slightly shorter at the pressure, thus the headbands becomes "wobbled" if their length is exactly the same as the spine at the time of their placement. (because it turns out to be larger (longer) than the spine width.) ~~Continues to the following reply~~