Book Binding: Making a Pocket and Rounded Bind

Today in Vernon street, I had the opportunity to make a mock up of a pocket bound book. You start with a length of paper, and we began by marking along every 10cm with a pin and then scoring these along. This is then followed by a series of folding corners and tucking in and out. It's quite a fiddly process, but eventually you are left with a series of tiny pockets that you can slide each page in to. (an example of one the folded sections is shown below).



Rounded Bind is a much longer process. You begin with marking, stitching and gluing your sections, and follow it by putting your sections in to a clamp and bashing round the edges with a hammer until they swell.




Directly above is an example of the stitched and glued book, before a cover is put on it, and above that are the phots of my completed book. You can see that it is a rounded bind, rather than the usual flat one.