I've got my Mark One Bard Book all printed out. I briefly considered buying a bone folder, then remembered that this was supposed to be a quick and dirty project, and used a small bone trinket box I have to press the folds into the quires instead. Project Creep similarly keeps threatening the binding. In addition to the tutorials/articles I linked to last time, I found Jaysen Ollerenshaw's project page for a Carolingian-style book. It assumes some basic familiarity with bookbinding - I find myself puzzled at what you're supposed to do for the 'endbands' (I think they're lines of stitching rather than sewn-on fabric bands?) and the difference between a link stitch and a herringbone...
And then I remember it's a quick and dirty project. It doesn't matter if I sew the quires to cords, like Jaysen, or sew the covers to quires, like EvilCuteBunny. If I use cords, I'm not going to have 1/2" thick boards to drill edge-on holes into - I have book boards sliced off of an old hardback. ("The Templars' Secret Treasure" - trust me, it's better this way...)
Looking around the Internet just a little bit more, Coptic stitching looks like the way to go (and hey, Wikipedia even says it's how the St Cuthbert gospel is sewn up) - simple, looks good, connects book boards to quires. That's all I need. I need to resist the urge to make this more than it needs to be - there is no sense in going gonzo for the binding when the interior is standard copy paper.
I feel like I ought to photodocument, to get into the habit if for no other reason... but I have no idea where the camera is...
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