Coolest bookbinding I've seen to date...

[tephra]

I'd like one, but from the description it seems like a major undertaking. My bookbinding-jutsu is just not up to taking that on.

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[toshirodragon.livejournal.com]

My inability to cope with tedious detailing is quite unable to cope with that!

*keels over*

[tephra]

I can do detail, but I end up doing it in stages. Unfortunately I sometimes get so sidetracked that things end up unfinished. I have a beaded collar-style necklace around here somewhere that I started over 10 years ago (when I started beading). That thing has moved with me from Massachusetts, to Arizona, to Massachusetts, to Michigan (where it stayed when I went back to Massachusetts for a couple years and then came back to Michigan!)

At this point if I do decide to finish it I think I'll have to start over. I have better technique now and beading technology has improved greatly since I started that thing.

[morganalilith.livejournal.com]

i've done some bookbinding, and actually, this doesn't look too bad as far as the tediousness of bookbinding in general. definitely not a project for ADHD sorts of days. but not an overwhelming undertaking for a day you feel focused.

come on, tephie. crank one out, lol. i wanna see what you come up with. :P

[morganalilith.livejournal.com]

my only other comment is that it doesn't look very sturdy. i'd have to see it in person and handle it to be convinced that the spiral would actually support the signatures.

[tephra]

It's only hard in the aspect of being a bunch of pieces you have to juggle until every piece has two attachment points. And while juggling you have to keep everything tight. Hmm, maybe I could cheat and clamp everything together, glue the spiral down and then sew after everything is dry. The glue probably wouldn't be strong enough to hold for long but it might hold long enough. The artist that did this one actually bound the signatures to the cord filling the spiral and then added the boards.

The binder (binding artist?) did another version, but I don't really care for the look of the spiral with then millipede binding.

As for sturdiness, open spine books do have a bit of slop to them (I've done a couple small coptic bound books to try out the whole open spine thing). I think I'd arrange my spiral to have its outer loop be closer to the top and bottom of the book since that's where the most slop is introduced.

There's also the problem that the length actually sewn through in the signatures is short, making it easy for pages to be torn out. *stares at the picture a bit* Maybe it would be possible to do a coptic bind under where the spiral will be placed and then rebind with the spiral over it. It would make the text block a bit sturdier and hold it together when you're binding the boards with the spiral....