Make a book

One of the highlights of my art degree was my book arts class! I love book making, and have returned to it again and again over the past five years. (Wow, has it been that long?)

If you really want to learn, you might try a single signature pamphlet or an oriental stab binding. (For the stab book, you can omit the “paper string” and the corner reinforcements, skipping straight to the stab-and-sew part. It won’t be as strong, but that won’t matter for a practice book.)

Definitely practice with scrap materials; my teachers made us make two practice dummies and two “good” books for each style. That way, you won’t ruin your beautiful, fancy papers!