Making Books

What to do with the old postage stamp collection? Stamps manhandled and worthless can be re-purposed. I see a lot of folk are using them to decorate bowls and picture frames or for jewellery. I decided to appliqué mine to handmade books. Having done one and put it on the Artistsshed Etsy site I have decided to make a couple more using Russian and Polish stamps.

I have made my own sketchbooks and notebooks for many years now using samples of fabrics I have designed/created for their covers. For anyone who may be interested here is my simple way of doing the bindings using off-cuts of wood as my frame. Very low-tech.

Piece of card marked with the position where holes for thread are to be made with a large sharp needle. Finally laying up the signatures (page sections) for stitching together. You do not need to use a frame but it is easier especially if you have a lot of sections.

Now just need to do those covers.

Jackie