Jays Books

A few people have requested a quick demo on preparing corners in bookbinding for covers etc. I tried to make it as short as possible (but is still 8 mins).

This week I will take a look at using a Vegan Leather on a little casebound book and the methods I used to try out a new covering material. The leather is a kombucha leather provided to me by the State Library of Qld to try to bind as a book and I am fairly happy with the results.

Today I'll show you how to make starch paste, well the way that I make it. This is a modified version of the State Library of Victoria recipe (here: http://www3.slv.vic.gov.au/latrobejou.... You will however find many other recipes on the internet. Try all of them out and see which one works for you. Remember paste will only last a week or two at most if kept in the fridge. After this it will stop being effective. If there are any other videos you want to see, please leave a comment and I will see about making one for you.

Binding blank pages for a notebook is a great way to start bookbinding but eventually you will want to bind a written text, either a family history, a public domain novel or anything else you may want to print then bind. In todays video I will go through some hints and tips on getting a text file from Project Gutenberg and into word, formatted ready for converting into signatures (which I will go into in Part 2).

This is part two of my tutorial on preparing signatures for your bookbinding projects.a This How To will go from a completed word document, to preparing a PDF then producing seperate PDFs for each signature, properly imposed.

First of all I want to apologize for my voice in this video. I am on day two of my covid quarantine, so while it means I have a strange voice, it does mean I can get some videos done. In todays video I will discuss a new imposition software I found called Montax Imposer.

Quick video while I'm laid up at home. I was trimming the endpapers on my latest diary and thought I would document the process.