Book Binding With Ribbon
The use of ribbons seems appropriate to the overall nature of the scrap journal and accommodates signatures of varying thicknesses.
Book binding with ribbon. It also would allow you to add pages later if you desired with a little creative jury rigging. Masking tape i m using duct tape but masking tape is better. If you printed your pages using a conventional word document you should automatically have 1 inch 2 5 cm of border.
Cover rapid around the white paper stalk to make sure that it the spine is bounded. Trim off the excess with a ruler. Book binding ribbon you can use regular ribbon or strips of fabric too.
You can use existing pages you may have such as a recipe collection or make a blank book using white printer paper. So the binding i used in this tutorial is a simple ribbon binding. Fold it in half.
Bookmark ribbon optional any ribbon. Take a stalk of plain white paper and it would be 5 1 2 long and 8 wide. Using ribbon to bind your book 1 ensure your pages have at least 1 inch 2 5 cm of margin on the left hand side.
Fold it in half. In this video i am showing how i ribbon bind my journals. I used a ribbon binding for this book.
Then align the edges of the white paper. Take a stalk of plain white paper and it would be 5 1 2 long and 8 wide. I m going to use some plain white ribbon.