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Wednesday Feb 24, 2010
Episode 45: Strapped for Notebooks?
Wednesday Feb 24, 2010
Wednesday Feb 24, 2010
Finished! Two small black blank notebooks. One is 160 pages and one is 128 pages. I used black cotton cloth backed by thin Chinese paper because I thought it would look cool - but black picks up dirt more readily and apparently than other colors.
One notebook has a strap to keep it closed, the other doesn't. Both have really nice white paper as endpapers. I got this nice white paper as the wrapping for another really nice paper I bought at my local nice paper store. It was such a great looking piece of paper I knew I would have to recycle it rather than just dump it. Plus, I'm planning on buying more paper from that store: two for the price of one. The one with the strap also has a bookmark which is too short, but these are learning experiences, aren't they? Yes, they are.
Making the strap, or rather, attaching the strap was the major learning experience for this couple of books. I cut a couple of holes in the back cover book board and then sewed the strap in - only stabbing myself three times. I glued the endpapers and cover over the strap, of course and brought it out the top edge and through the bookcloth. So far - one day - it is holding up nicely to the pokes and pulls of curious onlookers. Certainly is Moleskine-esque, isn't it?
They are both very flexible and soft because the bookboards were very thin, almost like a thin-crust pizza but without the toppings but thicker than the kind of cardboard you get when you buy a shirt (an no pins).
Now that these two are finished, I have one more blank notebook to do but it won't be all black. I'm thinking black on the spine-y bit and yellow for the rest. With a bookmark and a strap to keep it closed. After all three are finished, I will attempt to bind four novels - two to a book - with bookmarks and fine covers. These three notebooks are my continuing practice events. And aren't they all?
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