Introduction To Bookbinding: Folders

[GatzBcn]

Hello everybody!!

 

Since I know a lot of you enjoy making your own journals, I thought you may find useful this video I made regarding bookbinding. It is a short video that explains the type of folders available and what are they used for.

I hope you like it! And, as usual, any comments and suggestions are welcome .

 

[my63]

Very interesting thank you

[GatzBcn]

Very interesting thank you

 

I am glad you enjoyed it!!

[Art]

Very nice video. I watched several and will subscribe over on Youtube. Very nice of you to share.

[GatzBcn]

Very nice video. I watched several and will subscribe over on Youtube. Very nice of you to share.

 

Thank you! I am glad you took your time to watch my videos and enjoyed them .

[my63]

Thanks to Art for the tip I have also watched the rest of your videos GatzBcn I am interested in making a journal, once I understand the stitching I might have a go.

Michael

[GatzBcn]

Thanks to Art for the tip I have also watched the rest of your videos GatzBcn I am interested in making a journal, once I understand the stitching I might have a go.

Michael

 

That's great! I will probably upload a tutorial or something on Youtube soon .

[inkstainedruth]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting the link. Folders are also useful for origami, which is where I first ran across them -- a friend of mine (who also does bookbinding) was teaching a class in making paper boxes. She used plastic folders because of the price.

One comment, though -- I took a leather tooling workshop a few years ago. Whether a tooling mark remains permanently in the leather depends on the tanning process. Chrome-tanned leather does not hold the markings -- they will not be permanent and will shortly disappear (sometimes within an hour or two) and you'll be back to a plain, un-embossed surface. You have to use the other type of leather (vegetable-tanned); I'm not sure where brain-tanned leather or pelts fit in. So if you are doing something like this, make certain you know which you have before you start (hopefully the vendor will be able to tell you -- make sure you ask before you purchase). This holds true not just for bookbinding, but for any sort of leather working, such as for belts or purses.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Oruc Gazi Kutluer]

Those are interested in Ottoman Bookbinding specimens, you may visit www.instagram.com/pursanat or www.pursanat.com

Edited November 18, 2014 by Oruc Gazi Kutluer

[GatzBcn]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting the link. Folders are also useful for origami, which is where I first ran across them -- a friend of mine (who also does bookbinding) was teaching a class in making paper boxes. She used plastic folders because of the price.

One comment, though -- I took a leather tooling workshop a few years ago. Whether a tooling mark remains permanently in the leather depends on the tanning process. Chrome-tanned leather does not hold the markings -- they will not be permanent and will shortly disappear (sometimes within an hour or two) and you'll be back to a plain, un-embossed surface. You have to use the other type of leather (vegetable-tanned); I'm not sure where brain-tanned leather or pelts fit in. So if you are doing something like this, make certain you know which you have before you start (hopefully the vendor will be able to tell you -- make sure you ask before you purchase). This holds true not just for bookbinding, but for any sort of leather working, such as for belts or purses.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Thank you for your comment, Ruth! Actually, I am preparing a "materials" video and I was going to mention that there. The leather in the video is vegetable-tanned .

 

Have a great day!

[GatzBcn]

Those are interested in Ottoman Bookbinding specimens, you may visit www.instagram.com/pursanat or www.pursanat.com

 

Very nice, thank you for sharing!!

[byggyns]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting the link. Folders are also useful for origami, which is where I first ran across them -- a friend of mine (who also does bookbinding) was teaching a class in making paper boxes. She used plastic folders because of the price.

One comment, though -- I took a leather tooling workshop a few years ago. Whether a tooling mark remains permanently in the leather depends on the tanning process. Chrome-tanned leather does not hold the markings -- they will not be permanent and will shortly disappear (sometimes within an hour or two) and you'll be back to a plain, un-embossed surface. You have to use the other type of leather (vegetable-tanned); I'm not sure where brain-tanned leather or pelts fit in. So if you are doing something like this, make certain you know which you have before you start (hopefully the vendor will be able to tell you -- make sure you ask before you purchase). This holds true not just for bookbinding, but for any sort of leather working, such as for belts or purses.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Brain tan is a soft tan. It ends up much like chrome tanned leather. The chrome tan process was actually invented as a way to replicate brain tan on an industrial scale. So, as a result, heat embossing or pyrography(using a wood burner) is the only way to get designs to stay in either chrome tan or brain tan.