How to make a book yourself?
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If you want to surprise your family and friendsoriginal, give them a book made with your own hands. Make it pretty simple, and it will excel over other gifts, as it will be done with love. If you do not know how to make a book yourself, take into account our recommendations.
Creating a book
In order to make a book with your own hands, you need to prepare the following materials:
- paper for sheets of the right size and color;
- thread;
- needle;
- glue;
- cardboard for the cover;
- cloth or paper for the cover;
- scissors;
- decor elements (optional).
Types of sheet fastening
Before starting to create a book, you need to decide how the sheets will be attached to the cover. There are the following types of fastenings:
- spring fixation. To do this, it is necessary to make holes in the prepared pages of the book and cover, and fix the book using a spring;
- thread fastening. This method is quite simple. It involves sequential stitching of the pages of the book. For this, it is necessary to bend the sheets of paper in half and identify the places of stitching. It should be noted that the holes for the needle can be done with an awl on each sheet, and you can do everything at once by stacking the pages in a stack;
- glued joint. In this case, you need to glue all the pages together, and then glue it to the cover.
It should be noted that the spring and thread fastening is more reliable than the adhesive. But the choice depends on the type of product and the prepared design.
More options for creating a binding can be found here. How to make a binding.
Creating a cover
Having defined the type of attachment pages you can begin to create a cover.
Decorating the cover
After you prepare a cover from cardboard, you can begin to decorate it.
- Cut out a piece of cloth or paper, which will be 1 cm more than the prepared cover of cardboard (this is the allowance).
- Then glue the edge of the blank from item 1 to the cardboard, the projecting edges of the glue to the inside of the cover. Corners must first be cut off.
Build a book
- After the cover has dried, you shouldproceed to fixing the sheets. To do this, cut out a rectangular strip of paper and glue it to the back of the book in the middle, while you should have free edges of the lock (rectangular sheet of paper). We apply glue to the edges and glue to the base of the book. It should be noted that the back of the book is not
- We decorate the fly-leaf. For this, we cut rectangles of the necessary size from paper and carefully glue them to the cover and the first sheet of the book from two sides.
Another way to create a book with your own hands is in the article How to make a book.
Miniature book
If you want to create a small book forsecrets, then you can come up with an interesting book - a mini, which can be any size. It is produced as well as an ordinary book, only work is to be a jeweler, since the size of the book can be quite small.
If you want to create a mini book, information on this can be found in the article How to make a book out of paper, where you can find detailed instructions.
Book - postcard
If you want to make an original gift to family or friends, you can make a book card. Make it pretty simple. To do this, prepare:
- cardboard or scrapbooking paper;
- pencil;
- compass;
- scissors;
- ribbons;
- elements of decor;
- glue.
Making a book - cards
- Draw on the paper a circle of the right size with a compass and cut it out.
- Divide the resulting figure into 4 equal parts, starting from the center.
- One of the sectors is divided into two parts, and the next one is divided into 5 parts, while we cut out 4 parts out of five.
- We bend the figure along the lines.
- We glue the remaining narrow part with the adjacent wide part.
- After that, we decorate the postcard with ribbons - tie-ups or drawings and pictures at will.
Now your book - the postcard is ready and you can give it. It should be noted that this book can be of any size, it all depends on your desire and imagination.
