You can find it here-
http://www.etsy.com/listing/52763691/vintage-aurora-borealis-crystal-ring
-a wooden, nonfancy bookcradle for holding signatures while punching holes
-2 awls, one fatter, one thinner. -a soft lead pencil -2 types of glue, one thicker and one in a narrow-tipped bottle, both neutral Ph
-a small, flat edged, square painter's brush for gluing
-a pair of small, high quality craftsman pliers with grip at the ends
-a glass mat
-a bone folder
-a 15 inch or longer, cork-backed, sturdy metal ruler
-needles for sewing leather
-waxed linen thread in black, brown and cream
-a pair of scissors
-a small mat knife
That's basically it. As I got into making the kind of journals and books I create now, I added ultrasuede and leather to the list for tapes, but that's actually about it, since I repurpose old books for covers. The great part about these supplies is that you can find them all at either www.dickblick.com or at www.hollanders.com, which is one of my favorite places to buy supplies, or even at Hobby Lobby or Michaels.
For needles, I like the needles I find in the leather craft department best because the eyes are larger for accomodating the waxed thread but still narrow so they don't make huge holes in the signature. Another plus is that beads often will fit over the narrower eyes if you want to bead the spine. Bookbinders needles are often too thin for me and can break, so I switched to the leather needles for the most part, and have them in several sizes and lengths. I do keep unwaxed linen thread on hand that has to be waxed before use, but is much thinner, and bookbinders needles for times when the holes must be extremely small. The metal ruler can serve as a quick and dirty ripping blade for to make torn edged pages, and the glass mat is one of the best things I ever bought. You cut on it, measure on it, pour glue on it to use with a brush, and apply paste or glue for endpapers on it, but at the end of the day, all you have to do is wash it off. Plus its very environmentally friendly because you can use it forever :) Oh, and paper...reams of it, if you're making journals. Recycled, decorated, scrap, whatever your heart's desire, as long as you have enough to make as many signatures as you want your book to have, and you are ready to roll.
-a wooden, nonfancy bookcradle for holding signatures while punching holes
-2 awls, one fatter, one thinner. -a soft lead pencil -2 types of glue, one thicker and one in a narrow-tipped bottle, both neutral Ph
-a small, flat edged, square painter's brush for gluing
-a pair of small, high quality craftsman pliers with grip at the ends
-a glass mat
-a bone folder
-a 15 inch or longer, cork-backed, sturdy metal ruler
-needles for sewing leather
-waxed linen thread in black, brown and cream
-a pair of scissors
-a small mat knife
That's basically it. As I got into making the kind of journals and books I create now, I added ultrasuede and leather to the list for tapes, but that's actually about it, since I repurpose old books for covers. The great part about these supplies is that you can find them all at either www.dickblick.com or at www.hollanders.com, which is one of my favorite places to buy supplies, or even at Hobby Lobby or Michaels.
For needles, I like the needles I find in the leather craft department best because the eyes are larger for accomodating the waxed thread but still narrow so they don't make huge holes in the signature. Another plus is that beads often will fit over the narrower eyes if you want to bead the spine. Bookbinders needles are often too thin for me and can break, so I switched to the leather needles for the most part, and have them in several sizes and lengths. I do keep unwaxed linen thread on hand that has to be waxed before use, but is much thinner, and bookbinders needles for times when the holes must be extremely small. The metal ruler can serve as a quick and dirty ripping blade for to make torn edged pages, and the glass mat is one of the best things I ever bought. You cut on it, measure on it, pour glue on it to use with a brush, and apply paste or glue for endpapers on it, but at the end of the day, all you have to do is wash it off. Plus its very environmentally friendly because you can use it forever :) Oh, and paper...reams of it, if you're making journals. Recycled, decorated, scrap, whatever your heart's desire, as long as you have enough to make as many signatures as you want your book to have, and you are ready to roll.
I love old paper. I really do. I have used it for everything from covering journals to making the jewelry tags that I use for the shop, and I never thought I would have enough. Until I started bookbinding. Now I have an abundance of antique paper, in every shade and size, making it the perfect paper for mixed media, collage, journaling, and wrapping. Its too perfect to hoard, so I am sharing it in bundles of 100 pages in my shop. You can find the first listing here-
http://www.etsy.com/listing/51933665/antique-book-pages-bundle-100-sheets
and I plan on adding some themed bundles and some smaller ones as well. I got into recycling book covers as a way of saving books that were close to or already falling apart, and I would love for the text pages to find a new life as well. Some of them are so cool-! Giveaway DETAILS
In fact, I think these are so cool that I am going to give a bundle away to a lucky person chosen from the comments below by Random.com. Tell me what your favorite use is for an old book page by leaving a comment on this post between today (Jul 20) and midnight, Wed (JUL 21)and you'll be entered into a drawing for a 100 page bundle. Its that simple. Please make sure that I have a way to contact you in case you win, either via email, Etsy convo, etc :) May the craziest paper addict win ;)
http://www.etsy.com/listing/51449155/reclaimed-vintage-book-art-journal
and an incredibly happy journal in some seriously bright colors, here:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/51451752/reclaimed-vintage-book-art-journal
I will be posting some eco-friendly bookbinding explorations tomorrow that i had a lot of fun doing, using ideas from Terry Taylor's cool book Eco-Books. I will also share some more journals, so stay tuned. And thanks so much for all the postive comments and encouragement!
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