Friday, August 15, 2008

Playing with longstitch

I was playing with longstitches again and this is the result.


I am particularly happy with the grey one, everything worked perfectly and the combination of materials and proportions etc, just made a wonderful book. The black one has some marks on the leather so the end result wasn't quite as satisfying, although the binding itself is quite nice.

8 comments:

Carol said...

Lovely binding, very elegant. Turned out beautifully, you're right to be pleased.

tulibri said...

amazing, a single twist completely changes the looks! very nice, love them :)

Ali said...

these are lovely! very simple and beautiful!

MyHandboundBooks said...

thanks carol, tulibri, and ali!!

Anonymous said...

Your books are fantastic, you have inspired me to try leather and I am loving it. Thanks for you inspiration and sharing you knowledge with a newbie.

Billie x

Crystal Card said...

(I found you on the atlantic prov. etsy team blog..)
Love those books.. I've been doing some coptic binding, but have never found leather cheap enough to make a journal. Those are beautiful!

Lya Lilith said...

Hi, congratulations for your work, it´s beautiful! could you please tell me what´s the name of this kind of bookbinding and if there´s a online tutorial, I am trying to find but I only found the a coptic tutorial. Thank you very much ! =)

MyHandboundBooks said...

There is a list of several longstitch resources at etsybooks.blogspot.com

And I think this one is specifically the sewing that I used for these books en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Bookbinding