How to... : Do a cover for your books with fabric

You can buy special fabric for books in stores, but it will be cheaper if you do it by yourself, plus - you have more fabric models to choose! But, not every fabric is a good one, first make small trial with glue, if it fix well the fabric on the paper - so it is a good one! Use a PVA glue, or ask for an advice in storage dedicated to that. Prepare some base to put the glue - so then you can clean it, a piece of wood or marble stone, for example. And a roller. (the one you use to pain the walls)

so, if you have all these things ready, you need just a craft paper ( the brown with stripes, it is cheap too, you can find it in locals that sells paper, and... IKEA :D )

Now, cut the necessary amount of paper and the fabric you need,  put some amount of glue in different parts of your base, with a roller do a homogenic surface, and then put the paper on it, but begin putting the paper by one side, and then fixing it with your hand, in that way the glue will be fixed on the paper, and then, carefully throw back the paper. Put that paper on a surface and then roll up the fabric on the roller and put it carefully on the paper, avoy the bubbles on the surface, fix it with your hand.

Leave it until tomorrow, to get the glue fixed well.

Now you can apply your amazing fabric on the book!

Not everything is so difficult...!

I am refering to bookmaking! There are some types of books that requires a lot of work.. BUT! There are also bookd that you can do at home, I will post some process of a simple book that you can do with simple materials at home!

This type of japanese sewing is simple, but you need to to do the holes for sewing in very equal spaces, so you will need the perfect match. But it's simple

1. You need to cut 4 pieces of cardboard, two of them thin, and other bigger, you can do it a square form or more rectangular, the distance between the two pieces is about 5 mm or more, to let the book open well.

 But I think there are more geometric forms that you can apply, just search it! As you can see, I have cutted a chinese word, "Love", it's only for beauty)) 

Before doing holes for sewing, you need to adjust your papers just like in the photo, and put a little bit of glue, just to make that the pages static, then you need to use an electronic drill, to make the holes, or you can perforate it manually, just ask for a tool in your proper specific storage.

OK, then you need to put your gluded sheets and the cartons together and do pair number of holes, it depend of the size of the book you want to do, and the distance between the holes can be varied, but always a pair number!!! 4, 8, 10....

 Then you need to sew it, it's very simple and fast, 

 Belgium sewing type

Ok, with a little bit of practice and with those amazing manuals (not mines..) you can do it by yourself! 

You can use a lot of different types of material, fabrics, papers, you can use your old fabrics that you wanna trow away to do the cover. I'll show it in the other post soon! 

Enjoy it!!

Have I ever mentioned.... the place where I am studying?

I don't remember if I have mentioned the place where I am releasing my studies. Is a school that have two different "buildings" - in the one hand, a single building with few levels, in the other hand, a set of different buildings that are dedicated to different studies, like illustration, bookmaking, stamps, jewellery, ceramics (pottery and stuff), mural art, ...  It's a big place!

Sometimes the students of different area do a co-working for some works that school have prepared for them. For example, the students of bookmaking can realize works with the students from stamp area, or people from illustration can order to the students from bookmaking to bind their drawnings.

Well, now is the time for explore that big area where I am studiyng!!!

this is the one-building school

this one is where I am studiyng

this is what it looks inside 

just a beautiful tree that it looks like in autumn

the outdoor, near the entrance

It's a very great local, and I am enjoying my time there, my school also admit foreign students and can offer different typer of curses. If you are interested in, here I leave you the website: www.llotja.cat

The treatment of the teachers is very kind, they are all professionals of what they are doing, and they offer you a huge quantity of things you can do in each area.

this is me, working on (is an old photo, when I had long hair..)

If you enjoyed it, you can visit the website, or visiting my friend´s blogs, and check out different works that we do!

Carmen Biosca

http://enquadernaciobcn.blogspot.com.es/

Mercé Capell

http://www.naikare.es/blog/

I am also dedicated to drawing, and you can visit my deviantart page

http://yan-mei.deviantart.com/

Or facebook

https://www.facebook.com/nataschalangen9?ref=settings

2nd year finished!!

Finally! I have finished the 2nd year of bookmaking and succesfully! I have passed to the final project, that is the final work that will give the the graduation!

Well, It was a difficult year, I have experimented different things of bookmaking, generally with leather, because this was the goal of this year, working and develop your skills with this material, also with parchment.

Despite that we need to work with this materials, we can decorate our books with paper or other materials, but the huge work need to be focused on leather.

Well, now I can breath and tell with some happiness that I done all the things well and now I need to pass the final work and I will be graduated in bookmaking officially.

And now, I will post some of my works: