Studio Brief 2 - Book binding process

I looked into many different ways i could make small books without spending a lot of time or money. So on YouTube i went and spotted a tutorial on how to make origami miniature books, with nothing more then just paper.

The process is really tricky to explain but it's just folding each paper into different folds basically. Below is the tutorial i followed to complete the origami book which will explain the process better.

This was some photos of me making the book.

I was happy with the outcome, It was interesting how you can create a fully functional book (to some extend) with only one a4 sheet of paper. This said, the book would probably fall apart after sticking some stamps inside. It's not very strong without any support from glue or any kind of binding method.

Then after researching a couple more time, with different binding methods, I came across Coptic binding. Again, very hard to explain, but it's using a threaded needle and intertwining the different layers of paper with the front and back cover.

The video tutorial is below that i followed (if you want to see the process).

So below are some photos i took of the process. The process was a lot different from the tutorial above due to time and the book being extremely small, so a lot of adaptions had to be made.

First of fold 4 pieces of paper to create a signature. In total i create 4 signature in both books to spread out the 100 stamps.

This is the bit of cardboard (from a notepad) i used for the front and back cover of the book.

Two different needle and thread sizes i experimented with.

You needed waxed thread in oder to make the thread pass smoothly in between the other thread. I couldn't find waxed thread any where, so i brought a candle instead and rubbed the thread into it, to wax it up (who knows if it worked or not?)

Used my Dad's drill to drill holes into the signatures and the front and back cover.

Had to use the smallest drill piece due to my book being so small.

Start of my stitching,

Another angle.

From this angle hopefully you can see how they are all connected together,

The end result came out extremely well, It was strong and stable enough to hopefully hold stamps in with out breaking or coming lose.

I decided to add stencil on the front to give the front covers a bit of life.

Example of the stamps inside.

In the end i actually really disliked the front covers, so i decided to collage them both with left over stamps, which turned out a lot better.