Today's the day

Today's the day. Its tropical out so there's lots of natural light for a bind. I'm going to make a menu book for the 'people's kitchen' at passing clouds. In keeping with the natural, foraged and surplus theme i'm going to use some random paper sheets i've found. There are two sheets of different colours so i've alternated them throughout the book.

I've written some text on the cover using a screw punch and then cut down some thick blotting paper to give the book some shape.

I folded all of the sheets before marking up the binding holes.

Roughly i measured out the binding thread (double the length of the spine), hands are useful.

I decided to leave a slight deckle to the pages to make the book feel really handmade. I made four holes with the screw punch and bound the book leaving around a half inch inside when i tied the thread incase it needs to be re-bound.

I've been developing my pincer grip to hold it all together while i thread.

I ran prit stick along the inside of the book, near the spine and on the cover piece. I left most of the cover not glued down so that its flexible and won't warp. Finished.