Charlottesville Words

We had our first bookbinding class at VABC Thursday night. It was very relaxed and casual. The instructors were endlessly patient. We started off with our sheets of book paper, and tore or cut them into the size we wanted for our books. I tore mine into quarters, then folded each quarter in half. Four quarters folded and nested together make a signature. I made five signatures, so that’s 80 pages. We then punched holes in our signatures and sewed them together into blocks. Then we put weights on our blocks and glued the edges together along the spine. I thought it would be persnickety work, but so far it’s been fun and fairly easy.