Zum Gali Gali Rubber Stamps presents Five-stitch Bookbinding - Finished Project

Naturally I followed along as I wrote these directions. Here’s one of seven books I made as I was working on these directions.

This one went to my net friend Carol in Washington state. I sent the other six to the first six people who got this far in the directions and e-mailed me with comments about the site and said they’d like one. Some of the others had the real wasps’ nest paper like this one, and some had a slip of birch bark from a tree that fell in the storm we had on April Fools’ Day ’97.

Thanks to my son who learned this way of making a book at Rhode Island School of Design.

Read more about bookbinding, including instructions for several bindings similar to this, in Cover To Coverby Shereen LaPlantz, from Lark Books.

Lark Books
50 College Street
Asheville, NC 28801

Or, subscribe to her classy new magazine Tabellae Ansataabout artists’ books, bookbinding, and books for kids. Subscriptions are $25 for four issues. Phone (800) 750-2199. Unfortunately their web site, http://www.tabellaeansata.com, had nothing on it but a big “Under Construction” sign when I visited on March 6 ’99.