Seeing an inspiring link from design*sponge got me revisiting some of my books I've bound. I need to incorporate all my new swanky fabrics into new books. This one I did with a Liberty fabric (again) and used glassine bags as the pages, so I could keep lovely photos and little special paper items at hand in the pages-it's a post binding on this book-
and here are some journals with the Coptic binding, so they lie completely flat. There are wonderful instructions on how do this binding in this book, a favorite of mine.
and here is the design*sponge find (via one good bumblebee, another superb site!)
wow-oh wow, bricollage sells book and matching pins! For you bookbinders out there, I *think* these lovely creations are commercially bought books which are hand-covered with fabric, not hand-bound books. Please, someone correct me if I am wrong on this. If this is the case-well good idea, I say, because binding a book is hard work! But a wonderful thing to do. . .I really love the fabric and images they have chosen, not to mention that wonderful photography. (Do they sell clothes too? They should!)
