Click here to download the Japanese Stab Bind Tutorial
I was asked how I bound this book, and thought I would share it with all of you! The bind I did for Maggie is a variation on the Japanese Stab bind. I believe the stitching I did above is called a saddle stitch, going around the spine in basically a spiral, then doubling back to where you started & knotting with a square knot.
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How long have you been blogging…your good at it.
Thank you! I’ve been blogging since 2007, only a couple of years.
wow thats good how do u make it?
[…] Once we got settled in, Esther demystified the bookmaking process for us all by teaching us the Japanese Stab Binding technique – a simple and easy-to-learn bookbinding stitch. If you would like to learn more about it, there are many tutorial sites and videos out there that show how it’s done – here’s one. […]
The tutorial looks a lot harder than it looks on the finished product.
I’d love to learn how to do this….I am making a coloring book of my drawings.