How to Make Books by Esther K. Smith

Author:Esther K. Smith [Smith, Esther K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-7704-3419-9
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2012-05-22T16:00:00+00:00

Purgatory Pie Press and Peter Cherches, Colorful Tales. Handset metal type and rule.

Basic Three-Hole Pamphlet

Quick—sew this pamphlet to understand the concept of a single signature. Once you do it, you’ll be able to make your own chapbooks. My first book was like this—I made it in kindergarten. It was called “How a Seed Grows” and sewn with red yarn. The teacher wrote all the words and drew the pictures on the blackboard for us to copy—schools did not encourage creativity back then. I didn’t learn another book for almost twenty years, but that one was enough. I even used it for my college creative writing projects.

End sheets are my favorite part of a book. In some bindings, they are structural, glued to covers to secure the book. They hide the mechanism of the binding, which some people think is ugly—sometimes it is. But end sheets are also the vestibule. The cover is the door that beckons you in from the outer world into the world inside the book. Interesting endpapers function as the passageway between the worlds—once inside the book, you immerse yourself in its content. Endpapers can be plain text sheets that match the interior of the book. But they can be as flamboyant as you like. Even the dullest, plainest, conventional books can let loose with their end sheets. Like a tie with a business suit, an end sheet can be a vivid touch of color. If your book is very wild inside and out, you might want your end sheets to be the calm element between inner and outer worlds.

YOU WILL NEED

4–8 pieces of lightweight text paper

2 pieces of decorative paper for end sheets, same size as text sheets

1 piece of cover paper, slightly larger than text sheets

Bone folder

Awl

Needle and waxed linen thread

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.