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Continue reading →: japanese stab binding tutorial: arrows
I’ve been asked recently about tutorials/how tos, so I decided to give one a try. My appreciation for Keith A Smith has gone way up…it was pretty difficult! My first diagram was so complicated even I couldn’t follow it, and it was my own binding! If anyone attempts this, leave…
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Continue reading →: across the spine sewing: icicles
This is a binding that I actually did months ago…I just never got around to putting a cover on it until yesterday. I sewed this on my book sewing frame, but forgot to take step-by-step pictures. Oops! Maybe next time.
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Continue reading →: coptic stitch and greek binding 2
Greek binding with the fancy color-changing paper, and a coptic bind with a fun inside cover.
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Continue reading →: crayola ‘color surge’
I spent all day yesterday binding books or preparing more books to bind. I decided to see if I could find paper in my stash of supplies that wasn’t plain jane white…and came upon a pad of paper I bought over three years ago on a whim. It’s this coated…
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Continue reading →: french link stitch and 3 section sewing
I might add a cover to the French link stitch eventually, but I’m currently low on glue…the 3 section sewing is from Keith A Smith’s book.
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Continue reading →: greek sewing
I decided to try a new exposed spine sewing from Keith A. Smith’s 3rd book. This is a “Greek” style bind. The covers are just cover stock folded over. At one point I had eight needles…
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Continue reading →: thesis show reception 4.15.2011
It’s done! It’s finally over! The show is actually going to be up for another week, but the reception is finished and all I have to do now is take it down. Which is a somewhat daunting thought but I’ll worry about it in a week. I apologize for the…
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Continue reading →: 3-section sewing journal
A smaller journal that is slightly more compact than the other. I used two needles to sew the bind. It’s from Keith A. Smith’s book #2, but didn’t actually have pattern instructions so I improvised. I think the reason I don’t create more of this kind of binding is that…
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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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