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How to Bind Loose Pages Together
Things you need:
A sewing machine
A nail
A hammer
Cardboard and some kind of board
Waxed thread
Thick sewing needle
- First of all divide your book to 8-10 page bunches and sew along the edge of each bunch.
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- Put them on top of each other and starting 1 cm from the top mark 5 points. They should be equally distant from each other (even though mine is not!)
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- Take your first set of papers and place it on a board and a piece of cardboard. Then punch a hole on each mark with a nail and a hammer. Repeat this step for all of the sewn sets of paper.
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- Now it’s time to bind all the pieces together! Follow the Japanese side stitch steps in here . If your book is thick as mine, instead of going in one hole for 2 times, just make a knot where you come from and keep going to the next hole.
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Even though it’s a bit hard and tedious to make this kind of binding, it works great and with some patience it can be made with what’s available on hand at home.
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