Glue the other end of the accordion folded pages to the inside back cover of the book. Triangle accordion book tutorial sticks, stones, and. Make the center folded line of the accordion meets as you fold down the triangles. Accordion folded book this is a simple folding technique that you probably learned as a child and may have used to make a fan. Bookmaking and bookbinding supplies blick art materials. By folding the pages of a hardcover book in half, an adorable and rather sculptural mail and picture holder is created. Now you can add a cover to your book to keep it sturdy and strong. Find bookbinding glue and other adhesives, awls, paper folders, book rings, and other bookbinding supplies. Great for artists who love to paint on book covers, and zentanglers. The accordion book is in a folded position except for the edge panels. This type of binding works well for small books and promotional pieces. This creative binding combines the flexible fold out of an accordion spine to which many individual. Diy recycled candy box book perfect bookbinding tutorial sea lemon duration. As you can see, the colours are amazing as well as the dimensions of each book tall and narrow.
Cathy lecleire tutorial on how to make an accordion book duration. Pages are folded such that the fold becomes the outside edge of the page. The other day i asked if anyone knew how to make a spine using the fishbone folding technique. The stack is then bound together along one edge by either sewing with thread through the folds or by a layer of flexible adhesive.
Bookbinding is the process of physically assembling a book of codex format from an ordered stack of paper sheets that are folded together into sections or sometimes left as a stack of individual sheets. Combined with the accordion fold book, there are many creative ways to make these simple books a personal expression of your artistic or literary desires. Fold the top flap in half again, aligning the bottom edge to the top crease. Although there were over 30,000 distinct editions printed during the incunabula period 14501500 ce, no known incunabula has an accordion structure. You will now be able to glue your pages in the valleys of the accordion spine.
Both the accordion book and the nonadhesive cover are beautiful, folded paper techniques that can be made in a small studio where materials or tools may be limited. Trim all four corners of the book cloth along the diagonal, using your book board as a guide. The paper will want to bunch up a little bit, but try your best. Accordion bound books anstey canada book bindinganstey book. How to make an accordion book bookbinding tutorial by. Accordion fold book book folding, accordion book, book. This was followed by wrapped back binding, in which the folios were. Dragonfly, peacock feathers, and art nouveau flowers the kit contains precut, phneutral binders board, decorative papers, ribbon, acidfree ivorycol. This combination of book techniques, as well as other creative book structures they have developed, are in their new book more making books by hand. I am giving instructions for using 6 x 6 paper which will give you a 3inch mini album. Give the sheet a single fold, following the same technique described above. This is for a two panel accordion but the methods can be used for four and six panel books. Simple to execute, without the use of paste or thread though you can use both to expand an accordion book, it is a. This is called orihon in japan, common up until the nineteenth century, and is still used.
How to make an accordion fold book by emily embrescia joyce final video for introduction to multimedia arts 395495 case western. Accordion books one thing that we did was a lot of bookmaking with the kids, even the really little guys in kindergarten and first grade. Lily hoy put a comment on that post explaining how to make the fold, and then sent me some illustrations. It is often used for binding short items like poems. The sheets are joined together in the same way as in scrolls but instead of applying a roller at one end, the long horizontal strip is folded repeatedly on itself like an. See more ideas about accordion book, book making and book binding. Keepsake accordion book by nikki smith,as seen in pages 2012. Blick carries a wide variety of tools to complete your book. See more ideas about book art, handmade books and book making.
Accordion folded book this is a simple folding technique. Here is part 2 for basic scrapbooking and craft tutorial on how make hinges, spines and binding for mini albums, journals and photo albums for beginners. Accordion folding is a type of folding in which each fold runs in the opposite direction to the previous fold, creating a pleated or accordion effect. Gogo getaway coptic book binding with niki rowland duration. The singlesignature book pamphlet is the most basic of book forms, and an introduction to many of the processes of bookbinding.
A french fold, shown in figure 34, comprises of two folds and increases both the bulk and elegance of single folds. Books from the previous eras in japan are still intact today, as are the methods used to create them. Fold it up accordion style, stopping at the end of row. Over the past few weeks, weve dipped our toes into the world of bookbinding. Bookbinding tape by gaffer power, white cloth book repair tape safe cloth library book 4. How to bind a book with an accordion fold spine cloth. Long has the world chosen to preserve knowledge and stories in books, and japanese bookbinding is one such method that has stood the test of time.
Accordion fold or concertina fold book pages tutorial. How to bind a book with an accordion fold spine cloth paper. In bookmaking, however, there is a correct method of folding to insure that each fold matches exactly to the next. How to make hinges, spines and binding for mini albums and. Accordion fold your paper into eighths so that you have valley and mountain folds. Getting all the folds aligned is the trick to a neat accordion book. This week, well put aside the needle and thread and explore a book constructed without a single stitch.
Book binding as a tradition can be traced back through the centuries in many cultures. While there were other examples of accordion folded manuscripts, the binding structure did not carry over to early printed books. Singleprinted folio pages were pasted together and folded in a stack, creating a book in which pairs of printed pages alternated with blank ones. Learn how to make a mini canvas book using a meander accordion fold method. If you dont mind doing a bit of measuring you can fold you paper and leave a tiny strip as a connecting flap as well. To make the nested accordion popup fold book you will need. Once the accordion structure is assembled, its easy to mount in the images, text or other artwork in this flexible and popular of all creative bindings. This concertinastyle binding was more portable than the scroll, and is thought to have been inspired by palmleaf books which were carried along indian and chinese trade routes. The image above shows a job we produced, which had 5 different cover. Glue one end of the accordion folded pages to the inside front cover of the book. The books by hand accordion album kit includes materials for making three 14page accordion albums with three different covers. Diy mini canvas book meander accordion fold sea lemon. Easy peasy accordion bookbinding tutorial tortagialla. Learn to make a book with an accordion fold binding no stitching or glue.
You can create a larger size just by using larger paper. See more ideas about book binding, book making and flag. See more ideas about book making, handmade books and book binding. I saw nikki smith use the technique to create handmade books with colorful envelopes as the. Keepsake accordion book by nikki smith, as seen in pages 2012.
Deedygo 6inch genuine bone folder origami paper creaser crafting scoring folding tool for 4. The kids loved making their own books, and it provided a really great platform for helping students to develop a vision of the purpose of writing and how the written word comes to be. Book binding board, cover paper, inner cover paper, interior paper nice drawing paper in a 22. Punch holes in the side of the book pages for optional binding. Folding books were most commonly used for handcopied manuscripts, but a certain number of modern, printed books continue to be published in orihon style. In this part i will show how to make different page binding such as hinge to hinge page binding, floating hinges page binding, accordion page banding, elastic, thread and hair clip page binding. Folding down the triangles, keeping the folds of the the book with all the triangles folded down.
They are geared to producing the pieces in numbers. Using your book board as a guide, cut the book cloth so that it measures 1. Below is one of them, and following that is the instructions. The drawings and stepbystep instructions are very easy to follow. Diy mini canvas book meander accordion fold sea lemon duration. Books by hand accordion album kit blick art materials. Fukurotoji or yotsumetoji binding, also known as stitch or pouch binding, is perhaps the most common, and the most commonly associated with traditional japanese books. We r memory keepers 660443 0633356604433 tool journaling book binding guide 6 piece, multi. Italian long stitch tutorial for book binding binding books is a wonderful craft and you can be as creative with the binding. Beginning during the tang dynasty period in china 618907, buddhist texts were folded accordion style, making the texts easier to handle, less fragile. Flip the cardstock over and do the same to the other side. Diy mail holders by folding the pages of a hardcover book in half, an adorable and rather sculptural mail and picture holder is created. Alternative methods of binding that are cheaper but less.
Accordion fold book shame that this is the spine splayed out instead of the pages i would love to have a book that was something like this when opened. The image above shows a job we produced, which had 5 different cover colours, each colour in equal quantity. I saw nikki smith use the technique to create handmade books with colorful. After mastering a fivehole pamphlet stitch and japanese fourhole binding, its time to tackle the final introductory process. Hedi kyles blizzard books or crown binding hello everyone. The nested accordion popup fold book a binding passion. Fold the paper accordion style and crease the folds with a bone folder. Ive spent a happy morning trying it out and making several versions.
Step 6 tug the accordian pages of the first row under the second row. For information on how to assemble this keepsake accordion plus get other creative ideas for handmade books and art journaling, get your copy of pages 2012 now. Creative bindings and bespoke volumes hand bound books. The most interesting part of these books, though, is the style of binding.
It is each mountain fold that you will fold to the center. How to make an accordion fold book by emily embrescia joyce. The earliest known form of paper bookbinding in china is butterfly binding chinese. From there, you gather the folds up, like an accordion book. Any way you want to do it, just get your paper folded and pieced together into an accordion fold. Whew, the bulk of the work is literally done at this point. Blick also has tape, kits, and more to repair old books. Step 7 fold the second row accordion style like the first one.
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