If you are planning on binding
all (or more than one) of your compendiums into one book by taking apart
previous compendiums, you can hide the previous sewing holes in the following
manner:
Cut a piece of paper (decorative,
plain, or colored) 11" x 1" grain long. You will need one strip for each
signature of each compendium (16 strips total, if binding all 4 compendiums).
Gently fold each strip in half (do not bone it flat). Run a glue stick along the
spine edge of a signature; place the folded strip around the signature and press
onto the signature. You are only tacking the strip; the glue will hold it in
place when you re-pierce your signatures. Do not glue the entire strip to the
signature, just the spine edge.
It won't matter where your
previous holes were punched, as you will make a new jig to pierce all of the
signatures and the wrapped strip will be the only visible spine to show off your
Coptic stitching. As you can see from my book, all 4 volumes are bound as one. I
used alternate colors for each volume (cream for volumes 1 & 3 and grey for
volumes 2 & 4).
(See below for full workshop description)
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