Accordion Book

The Accordion Book

The items that you will need to complete the accordion book:

You will need any material that you would like for the cover but I prefer the book board and you need to cut to pieces that are identical in size. The size is up to you.

You will also need glue.

A Bone folder or something that you can smooth out the edges with.

Putting it together:

The cover can be anything that you want but like I said I prefer the book board. You can do many different types of designs for your cover you can paint it, color it, but I like using book cloth.

As soon as you have decided what your cover will be next you will need the size you will be using and measure the text block into the correct measurements so that when they are folded together they are flush with each other.

Fold the text block back and forth till you have as many pages as you want. (use the bone folder to help you fold them)

Then apply glue to the text block. I think it is better to apply to the text because if it is slightly smaller than the book board you won’t have any extra glue marks showing.

Take your bone folder and rub along the text to get all of the air and wrinkles out.

You then repeat this process with the back cover. Make sure that the designs are all facing the same way.

If you want to make a book that is thicker most likely you will need to glue the text block together at some point. This is very easy. You just need to take two pieces of text block that are measured the same and glue one end piece to the other. Repeat this if you want to add more.

I like adding ribbon to the book. After it is don’t cut any length of ribbon you want and the colors and design you feel best suits the book and then tie it around the book to hold it together.

You can also have it standing up showing off the contents.

Here is a picture of the final copy and a link to a video to help you out if you need it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztqc-JChteg&feature=related

This video is way cheesy and that is why I chose it but it is a great way to learn how to make an accordion book

By Derek Jorgensen

Button Hole book

This book is a lot of fun. I love being able to see the spine of a book. You can make as many holes in the spine as you want and even use colorful paper. 

First you will need to cut the front and back cover, and spine. Decide how many holes you want in the spine and cut them out. glue them into place on the paper for the cover and then cut out the holes in the spine.  

After cutting the holes cut the end paper and an eighth of an inch smaller and glue on inside of book. 

Then cut out the holes. The raw edges will be hidden by the string when you sew it together. 

After cutting the holes you are ready to sew. This book is great with colorful thread. Start sewing from the valley and move to the mountain through the first hole. When poking holes you only want them on the sides of the holes. This book has two holes to show the spine. it will have 4 sewing stations. 2 per hole. Go in and out through each hole and when you are done with the first signature just tie a knot. Continue till the book is finished. The more pages the better for this book. Good luck!

The Crazy Fold.

What you will need:

Paper, 40" x 4 1/2". Wall paper lining paper or brown craft paper are suitable. It is easy to cut the size in one piece if the paper comes off a roll. Otherwise, you may need to join two pieces of paper to achieve the length required.

Decorative paper

Glue

Thread and beads to finish

This book is suitable for quotation or poem.

1. From short left hand edge of paper, measure along top edge

1" - 1.5" - 1" - 1.5" - 1" - 1.5" etc. until you reach the end.

2. From short left hand edge of paper, measure along bottom edge

1" - 1" - 1.5" - 1" - 1.5" - 1" etch

3. Lightly score folds from front.

4. Fold concertina style. Some folds will need to be reversed.

5. Fold first the last 1" folds under, then glue to strengthen.

6. Letter alternate pages on front of book.

7. Make template of blank page on front of book and cut slightly smaller shapes from decorative paper.

8. Using glue stick or spray mount, stick decorative papers to blank pages on lettered side of book.

9. Turn book over and glue decorative papers to reverse side of lettered pages.

10. Concertina the finished book into a fantastic whirligig.

11. Finish with beads and thread for decoration.

lunch sack book with pocket pages

This is my made up book called: lunch sack book with pocket pages. It's a cute, fun book for note taking and can store papers or whatever you would like in the pocket pages created from the use of lunch sacks. Also, it's fun to add a button on the cover and string to keep it closed so things won't fall out of the pockets, enjoy!

{front}

{inside front}

{inside pages}

{pocket pages}

This book is very fun to make with simple instructions:

1. buy some brown lunch sacks (or brown wax paper) and create a signature with 6-9 sacks.

2. cut the cover paper to the exact size of the brown lunch sacks for the outside of the signature. (so you will create one signature with the cover paper and all of the 6-9 sacks together.)

3. poke 3 holes through the whole signature (including cover page) where you would like.

4. start from the valley of the top hole of the signature and go up to the mountain with your thread.

5. from the mountain, go down into the valley in the second hole.

6. from the valley, go up into the mountain in the third hole.

7. from the mountain, go back down into the valley in the second hole.

8. tie the excess thread from the first hole and the thread you used to to go back through the second hole, tie a knot.

9. for the button, just sew the button where ever you would like on the cover and leave enough string on the end to be able to wrap around the whole book and the button.

and there you have a cute lunch sack book with pocket pages!

created by: {b}ridgette {p}eterson

dos-y-do book

So this book is pretty simple. It is essentially two books put together, and therefore one difficulty is that it is the same amount of work as making two books. You can do any binding; I did a cord and case to demonstrate this idea. Making the text blocks is the same as usual, but as you go to attach the covers, attach them facing opposite directions to make the dos-y-do book. The outside covers need to be around 1/8th of an inch longer than the center board so that all of the covers line up. And that is pretty much it!

-cheers!

Emily Davis

Stand Up Coptic Book

I made this book to use as a recipe book, but I am sure you could think of other reasons to make this book as well.
The first step is to make a Coptic bound book. Cover the book boards first, just like you normally would and sew in the signatures. If you want the book to stay open it is best if you just put one sheet in each signature, this means you need to be extra careful when sewing not to pull to tight because the paper can rip. Here are the instructions to sew a Coptic stitch using 2 needles. You can use this stitch or any other Coptic stitch you want.

Now that you have the book ready you will need another piece of book board to use as a stand. On one end cut out a an indent halfway through the book board as thick as a book board. This is where the cover will rest when the book is in standing position. Then cover the book board with book cloth and attach it to to the back cover of the book. Leave a 1/4 inch space for the hinge.

The last step is to attach an elastic band to the back of the book cover. Measure where you want it to be. Punch holes, and pull the ends of the elastic through to the inside of the cover. Glue down and cover with end paper.

An easier version if you have single sheets or recipe card is to use binder rings bind the book instead of sewing the coptic. You just punch holes through all the recipe cards and insert binder rings.

Good Luck! ---Alissa Empey

flag binding

Materials
• 2 pieces of book board (front and back covers)
• 2 pieces of cover paper (1.5” bigger than the book board for both length and width)
• 2 pieces of coordinating end papers (.25” smaller than the book board for both length and width)
• 1 strip of paper (.25” shorter than the book board)
• Pieces of small paper used for flags (no longer than the book)
• Adhesive

Directions
1. Glue a piece of book board in the center of one of the larger pieces of paper for both the front cover. Repeat for the back cover.
2. Cut off the corners of the paper at a 45 degree angle (about 1.5 times the thickness of the book board). Do this for all of the corners on both covers.
3. Score along the fold lines of the side flaps with a bone folder. Then glue the flaps down. (glue the two sides across from each other first, and then the other two sides across from each other last) Do the same for both covers.
4. Take the long strip of and score a vertical fold line every .5" though 1” along the length. Fold the strip of paper accordion style until you form the spine of the album making an even number of spaces.
5. Glue the spine to the centered inside edge of the front cover. Then attach the other side of the spine to the other inside edge of the other cover.
6. Take one of the small end papers and glue it to the inside of the front cover, over the spine. Repeat for both covers.
7. Stick your pages to the spine. The pages on the top and the bottom will be attached to the left sides of each accordion fold.
8. The middle pages will be attached to the right side of each accordion fold.
9. Attach all the pages or flags until you have used all of them.
10. Enjoy.