Thursday, February 05, 2015

Book #36

Kochōsō Binding

Today's book is made using a Japanese kochōsō binding, also known as the butterfly binding. The cover is made using a sheet of my own Suminagashi marbling.

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3 comments:

AES said...

Beautiful book, beautiful marbling!

1:44 pm
Unknown said...

would love to find out more about this technique

2:27 pm
MyHandboundBooks said...

thanks AES and Louise Edwards!

There are instructions for this structure in the "Japanese Bookbinding" book by Ikegami.

3:29 pm

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