Showing posts with label french stitch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label french stitch. Show all posts

Sunday, October 23, 2016

Special bookbinding gift to a group of teenagers

Literally spent almost like 'satu hari satu malam' (one day and one night) just to get one book done from scratch.
From paper cutting, cover cutting, measuring, sticking, to final sewing.
I have a target of 10 books to complete. It cant be 9 or 8, it should be a perfect 10, otherwise i will be deemed unfair.
With some on french stitch and mostly on coptic stitch, and I was using mostly leftover wallpaper that was supposed to be junk in the dustbin. The inner papers were leftover printed paper from my neighbour who run  a printing company.
My main aim was to fully utilize whatever resources that i could get from the recycled bin and upcycle them to give them a second life.
From end paper to inner paper and cardboard, they were supposed to end up in recycling bin.
Finally.....and finally, my babies were borned:

Top middle cover was using curtain fabric. Damn difficult to stick and i am still learning how to do it well on fabric, particularly curtain fabric.

Left to right cover: wallpaper, wallpaper, wall sticker, wrapper. Thread: cotton yarn. Coptic stitch








French stitch on soft cardboard, with wallpaper as corver





Monday, April 18, 2016

French stitch bookbinding

Days before the class, i had a dream about bookbinding.
Strange but true to life.
Something that i really looked forward to.

It was coarsely done as i was just started out.
LIttle girl purposely tie the pinkish ribbon this way and it created a wonderful surprise