Book Binding Diy Leather

Place the book on the leather hide and wrap the cover tightly around it.

Book binding diy leather. Black magic leather grimoire bookbinding tutorial. Make sure that the top and bottom edges of each piece are aligned and that you have about a inch 0 64 centimeter gap between the spine and cover pieces. You can certainly substitute the leather with thick paper fabric or any material that can wrap around the entire book.

I ve been really into bookbinding lately and with halloween coming up i decided to make a dark grimoire with black leather and an amethyst centerpiece supply list real leather black sheepskin leather 0 4mm thick 96 sheets a3 sized sketchbook pape. It should be one piece and large enough to wrap completely around the book s front cover spine and back cover. Made this as a simple cover for an existing book.

The top and bottom edges as well as the sides of the cover must be four times the thickness of the book board the actual book. A cheap way of rebounding the book. Press the cardboard into the glue.

If you want to use something rigid like cardboard just make sure you cut out three pieces for the back front and binding of the book cover. The width of the inside cover the width of the outside cover the width of the spine the back outside cover the depth of the journal then a small section to ensure the leather completely wraps around the journal and then a point for the flap. I sewed this cover on by looping 4 tight runs of leather waxed thread inside the book pages so it hangs inside this cover.

The hardback cover of the book was gone but the gluteals spine and stotching intact. Starting from the left the sections represent.