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Continue reading →: japanese stab binding #41: ‘albuquerque’
“Albuquerque”…28 holes, beginning bind. Super easy, actually.
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Continue reading →: japanese stab binding tutorial: hearts
This is a beginning bind, with an intermediate level of holes (40). If you don’t want the gaps between the hearts, then repeat the steps marked in orange until you have the desired number. When you have reached the end of your line of hearts, wrap the left edge, then…
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Continue reading →: a fontified version of The Princess Bride
I’ve been playing with lasers again! These designs were created as prizes for my office. We’re a bunch of nerdy geeks who create fonts for publishing minority languages. Last year we started taking bits from the ‘team movie’ of The Princess Bride and twisting them to our own silliness. There…
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Continue reading →: japanese stab binding tutorial: dancing snowflakes
This bind has 84 holes, which makes it more complicated than it might be otherwise. Also, holes 24, 44, 64, and 84 need to be much larger than the others because there are 15 threads entering and exiting. The tutorial was a bit complicated to write (though I don’t think…
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Continue reading →: glyphs: “shovel face” font
Most of the font work I do is with FontLab, but lately I’ve been taking time to experiment with both Glyphs and FontForge. I have test fonts going for both, because there isn’t any better way of learning font design software than creating the letters from scratch (merely opening an…
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Continue reading →: japanese stab binding tutorial: sushi
Second place in the tutorial poll. A very simple bind, no twists or complicated V shapes. 58 total holes. If you’d rather have cinnamon rolls instead of sushi, ignore the steps marked with an asterisk “*”. **click any image to enlarge** hole pattern sewing pattern EXIT = needle pointed DOWN…
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Continue reading →: japanese stab binding #39 and #40: tiara and double arrows
I seem to have a backlog of patterns I have sketched but not sewn yet…lately I’ve been playing with triangles. Here are a couple: “Tiara”… 28 holes. Beginner bind. “Double arrows”…48 holes. Beginner bind.
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Continue reading →: japanese stab binding tutorial: maple leaves
The maple leaf pattern tutorial, as requested in the poll! I’d say this one is pretty simple. The instructions for the ‘V’s at the edges are written differently than usual, but I hope it make it a bit easier. *Tip: make holes 1, 14, and 26 a bit larger than…
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Continue reading →: tutorial poll #1
I’m way behind in providing binding tutorials here, and I apologize if you asked me for one and I didn’t come through. It has been so long I can’t remember which design I was asked for last…so here is a poll with some of the most recently popular designs. Cast…
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