Little notebook made with one single sheet of paper
I just stumbled upon this idea and I just think it's very cute and neat.
Just by folding (and a little cut or carefully ripping the paper), you can turn one sheet of paper into a little 8-page notebook! It's usually used for zines (I totally went down a rabbit hole the last 2 days), but it can be used for anything.
You can go all out on creativity and create your own little book, write a little story or comic, or just reuse some old unused advertisements or letters as shopping list or little notebook to carry around.
Here are the instructions, I've took from some random website (not mine!)!
It's not dissimilar to how a quire is made for old school book binding. The text block being made of several quires sewn together. The spine of the block is glued. The other three sides are then trimmed down with a plow (which negates the need for any of the cuts in your example). And then it is glued into its cover.
Oh bookbinding is also a very interesting topic and also one I have been eyeing for some time. But even if you go for a basic technique, it always requires some tools (at least some thread or glue). The nice thing about just having to fold a sheet of paper is...well..you only need the sheet of paper. You can create a little thing just on a whim.
I like both approaches, I just think they try to achieve very different things.
Yeah, it's a very expensive hobby.
Japanese stab bookbinding is a style that has the potential to be the cheapest as there is little or no gluing. You should be able to request a book on it in your local library.
Thank you for the pointers. I will totally check out the library the next time I go there. It looks really cool! While I mostly stumbled upon stitching as an entry to bookbinding, the Japanese stab binding is new to me.
I mostly want to do it, because a friend of mine writes short stories. And I would love to bind one of her stories some day.
Basically that. I would have used "octavo" instead of "quire", but yes. IIRC, the quire is six sheets or 24 pages, while the octavo is eight sheets or 32 pages.
I find within the bookbinding world there is varying nomenclature between the US and Europe. But also my memory is like a sieve.
ooooh, that is really cute and neat! I gotta try that someday! c: