In addition to drawing, I like to do all sorts of things with my hands. I decided to make a decorative book, similar to the old, than I share with you.
- At first I chose the text and pictures that I want to put in the book. It was stories and art from the Internet. I designed them in a text editor and arranged the text and pictures as I wanted.
- For the kind of old pages, I have soaked the sheets in the water with the tea, then dried them and flattened the iron.
- The typed text must be typed correctly. I used the book binding, which I learned on the Internet. I did a classic book. This means that in each notebook of the book block 16 pages of A5 or 4 A4 pages with text on both sides and bent in half. In the print settings, I chose 2 pages per sheet, and printed them in the following order:
16, 1, 14, 3, 12, 5, 10, 7
then turn the paper over and print the following pages:
2, 15, 4 13, 6, 11, 8, 9
And so on all pages. (Sorry, if I have not explained clearly, there are many articles on the Internet about this)
I got 9 blocks of 16 pages.
- Next, I sewed these blocks. I made holes and sewed thread:
Inside it looks like this:
- Next, you need to make a cover. I took 2 thick sheets of cardboard and cut out rectangles a little more pages of the book. I glued them together with a rectangle of paper so that there was room for the thickness of the book. And wrapped the resulting design in a piece of artificial leather. The skin was glued to the cardboard with glue, and on the corners put on metal corners.
- After that I connected the book and the cover. To do this, I put the book in the cover and pasted the last pages to the cover (never glue the book's spine, only the sheets!). For beauty, you can put a ribbon to bookmark between the cover and the book.
- In the end, I decorated the cover with pictures made with acrylic paints and tied a metal ring to the ribbon.