these photos follow my dummy binding examples, photos taken from lighting studio 06.02. making these dummy books helped me better understand the creation that goes into making a book. using basic printer paper gave them this draft style quality, written on using black sharpie.
as i’ve only created my cover one page thick, the marker bleeds through,next time i need separate these by a pages
these draft books are really nice to visualise what a page might look like, and help when analysing them highlighting key images
as this is my first dummy it has a very basic binding down the spine, simply using double side tape as an adhesive to bind my pages to, i did this by pressing the pages together. this is also how i’ve taped my images down. binding my pages together like this isnt very practical as it doesn’t have much wear and tear capability providing an flimsy aspect. any adhesives should suit this job, however, i was trying to stay away from water based as printer paper buckles easily when wet.
creating a cover page i folded an a4 sheet in half and placed double sided tape down the seam of spine, rolling all of my pages onto the tape creating a seamless bind so that when turning pages cant be seen.
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doing some research i came across some binding patterns using thread, removing some of my issues I was having with adheavses, providing more of an authoritive feel, like my dummies were starting to come together. i tried a few of the bindings but found binding pattern 6 to be more suitable for this kind of book.
noticing I slightly messed up the binding pattern by not leaving a space between the X’s. this meant my cross stitches were more packed together resulting in a tighter binding than they should have been, taking up a larger amount of time, doing this next time I should make sure to check my pattern beforehand.
before adding a cover to this dummy i wanted to showcase what the behinds look, here i have bound my pages and place adhesive in each of the corner where the cover would overlay
the binding is still visible on the inside of the book, but if i spaced my cross stitch more evenly and increased how many pages i had to a book this issue should resolve its self, because of the density hiding the thread
here you can see how sloppy this binding is, next time i hope to make this more accurate
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