Diy Leather Book Binding

Place the book on the leather hide and wrap the cover tightly around it.

Diy leather book binding. It should be one piece and large enough to wrap completely around the book s front cover spine and back cover. Glue one cover at a time making sure that the new leather cover hangs over the edge of the paperback by 1 8 on all sides. Make your own fold a piece of fabric over a piece of string and glue it cut two pieces of headband as wide as the spine of your book.

If you want to use something rigid like cardboard just make sure you cut out three pieces for the back front and binding of the book cover. Choose thin leather otherwise it won t fold easily. If you are on the lookout for fun craft projects or quick ways of making nice presents and gifts.

You can certainly substitute the leather with thick paper fabric or any material that can wrap around the entire book. Glue the two headband pieces onto the spine of your book. The width of the inside cover the width of the outside cover the width of the spine the back outside cover the depth of the journal then a small section to ensure the leather completely wraps around the journal and then a point for the flap.

Press the cardboard into the glue. This will keep any glue from getting on your pages. Starting from the left the sections represent.

Repeat with the back cover and back page. The art of book binding is an ancient craft but actually it is not very difficult to do and with almost no practice you can get really awesome results. Liking leather i decided to bind it in.

The top and bottom edges as well as the sides of the cover must be four times the thickness of the book board the actual book. You can connect rigid pieces together with bookcloth fabric or strong tape. Buy it on amazon 5 for over 100 books worth option 2.