secret, secret
at the end of april i learned a new binding technique at minnesota center for book arts: secret belgian binding. it took me a few tries to get a comfortable tension and understand the sewing order, but once you get going it goes pretty quickly. i’ve got plans for more, and they’re on the list…
(sorry to put styx in your head. i’m still trying to get it out of mine.)
May 11th, 2011 at 6:26 am
Have you seen this amazing Styx concert?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brDDzKOcvPA
Totally awesome.
May 11th, 2011 at 6:39 am
I think I’ll have to try this out and use it as a lesson at one of my book binding guild meetings.
Thanks
May 11th, 2011 at 7:06 am
looks a lot like coptic… does it lay flat? cool…
May 11th, 2011 at 8:45 am
I was in that class! I have been reading your blog for a while and admiring your work. Wish I’d realized you were there and said hi.
I really need to make another one soon so I don’t forget how….
May 11th, 2011 at 9:49 am
very cool! i love that it has a spine that can be done in a contrasting bit. you do know that you make your journals so beautiful that it is very hard to make that first mark on the first page…
May 12th, 2011 at 1:50 pm
Love it.
May 15th, 2011 at 6:25 am
Intrigued. Must see in person.
May 31st, 2011 at 7:10 pm
I’ve never actually made one, but my current sketchbook is a Secret Belgian. I love how flat it lays, although I need to make some sort of temporary cover for it (think brown-bag book jackets in 7th grade). All the shoving into my bag I’ve been doing is already starting to fray the cords. Don’t need the thing to fall to pieces, mid-sketch!