japanese stab binding #38: snail

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Becca

September 4, 2013

Another spiral. I am actually not too fond of snails, as I think they’re gross and slimy (and I encountered way too many when I lived in England)…but how could I not try for the stab pattern? You could modify this and make the snail’s body longer, but I thought it looked odd, so I shortened the spine width down by an inch.

I’d rate this bind as very easy. There are segments that could be easily missed while sewing the bottom edge, but it’s very simple to add in the missing stitches later.
39 holes. 5″(12.7cm) wide, .25″(.64cm) thick. I forgot to write down how many times I wrapped the spine for the thread length (sorry!), but I think that it was around 8 times.

One response to “japanese stab binding #38: snail”

Nanda

March 13, 2023

Dear Becca,
I love this design. Do you have a tutorial for this one? even if it’s a simple tutorial to get us started?
At the end of each schoolyear we make and bind a book for the teacher. Each student (9 to 11 year olds this year) makes a drawing with text of what they enjoyed most that year.
They did a lot with animals this year and we love the snail design.
I used the lotus design last year which was really beutiful.
kind regards ,
Nanda

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I’m Becca!

Welcome to Becca Making Faces, a blog that started out as a grad school project and has become a place where I post experiments in Japanese stab binding.

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