learn bookbinding

I do love books, and have a few that I need to have repaired. Why not me, by golly? Should learn to take care of books before they go all to electronic format. Love the old ones, esp. the leather ones. What to do. Have read a lot of good suggestions below and will share as things progress.

I love buying journals, but they’re so freaking expensive. I have a nice little collection of them, but my mom isn’t happy whenever I say I need another one. So learning how to make my own would definitely cut down on that. Plus, I hope to someday have my own editing and publishing business. I’m going to start by asking some of my friends who are interested in writing if they want to gather their works together and make a little local literary magazine out of them. Things would move along more quickly with that if I learned how to bind books ahead of time so I could teach them as well.

I grew up with bookbinding. My dad is a self taught professional bookbinder. He taught my sister and I how to do it. I stopped doing it professionally years ago, but it is still in my heart, and I think I’d like to do it again.

http://www.bookrestoration.net/index.html

There aren’t enough good bookbinders in the world today.

I have done a little bookbinding but I would like to develop the skill to a higher standard. I want to be able to bind a book so it opens flat as I would like to create my own sketchbooks.

Hi!

I would very much like to have my own business doing book-binding but need to know what materials/machines/training, etc. I need to do this? Also, where does one acquire the training for this & how much money will I need for the training? Plus, what are the total overall expenses incurred with starting a book-binding business?

Thanks for any help you can give me,

Chiquitha

i love funky, handmade books, but they blow my budget to teeny weeny pieces. so i guess if i could figure out how to do it myself i could have my book & eat it! so to speak…

Today I went to a bookbinding day class that my matting & framing teacher held with the neighbourhood grant she received.

So much fun! It was a great group of interesting ladies (I brought Kate) & we spent 4 hours making photo albums and getting to know each other over eclectic teacups and almond cake. I feel quite proud of my book – I should fill it with lovely photos now.

I took a bunch of notes and photos as we went along and would really like to try this again on my own. Maybe after learning to make my own paper.

It’s a great goal, but realistically I’m not going to have time with learning French and preparing for my course next year.

I also want to set up a website.

Seems like it would be neat and keeps coming up in my brain, but don’t know if it is too hard.. how to start at home as a hobby. Just starting to look at.

Can anyone recommend a good book to learn from?