I've been wanting to learn how to do this for ages, and now, thanks to Iris, I can! I can't wait to have a play around with using more colours, and different cores (and better sewing!)
I did start to case this book into a cover, but when I was trimming off a tiny bit of the endpaper, I stupidly cut right across the stitching... dur. But I sewed it again, with a thinner bit of string for the core, and it looked much neater. So far so good.
I got the new cover all cut and measured and fitting, and got the book all stuck in and looking right... but then blobbed a huge glue finger print right in the middle of the endpaper.
And there was something slightly satisfying about getting a stanley knife and cutting the book from its cover. No pictures because it's too dark now. Perhaps I'll keep it as a kind of deconstructable example :)
2 comments:
It looks great, thanks for the link to the tutorial. Our group is having a demonstration about this in January so no doubt I will get to practice at some stage. A friend of mine makes pared leather headbands which look lovely also.
Hooray! I'm so glad to see my instructions were clear enough for you to use them! :) It looks great, you did such a nice job. I do like the cord cores - it comes out much rounder than leather strips. I might have to try that!
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