A few Coptic bound handmade books
Over the last few days, I made two B5 notebooks and an A6 notebook. And today, I shipped two of them off to friends as gifts. I hope they’ll be as happy with them as I am and enjoy using them as much as I’ve enjoyed making them.
What I love most about the Coptic style of binding is that it allows the book to sit flat, making it ideal for writing in.
I love the gorgeous chain stitching too.
For this set of books, I used navy corrugated card for the covers and burlap twine as the binding agent. The A6 signatures were made of plain white 80 gsm paper and for the B5s, I dismantled an existing B5 notebook that I got from Popular which was B4 paper folded down the middle and simply stapled together. It was difficult finding suiteble paper to make the B5 books as I wanted the insides to be ruled.
Thank you Notabilia for the book making classes. I thoroughly enjoyed them and absolutely love that I can make my own books that people love to receive.
