I've not been particularly motivated the past two weeks, but did start making a couple of books for a setting that I'll need at some point. I googled 'making a Wizard's Book', and like usual, there's all kinds of information to be found online.
The one that inspired me, had me cut out all the double pages, fold them into 'signatures' and hand-stitch them together. Then the cloth inner cover was glued on, and the whole thing dipped into diluted brown paint and shaped into an open book....and left to dry. Then the cover was made and glued on. The video is for a 1/12th scale open book, but I made mine bigger, with more stitching. But the basic techniques are still the same....
The one that inspired me, had me cut out all the double pages, fold them into 'signatures' and hand-stitch them together. Then the cloth inner cover was glued on, and the whole thing dipped into diluted brown paint and shaped into an open book....and left to dry. Then the cover was made and glued on. The video is for a 1/12th scale open book, but I made mine bigger, with more stitching. But the basic techniques are still the same....
For the book on the upper left, I actually printed out the story pages the right size, before cutting them out and sewing them into signatures. The bottom book has a page from one of Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks printed out the right size, and then glued into the middle of the open book.
*Link to YouTube video with instructions
*Link to YouTube video with instructions
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