I m watching hours of your videos without getting bored. Thank you.

The love heart to hold the section open makes me happy.

Thanks for another great video. The most exciting part about experiencing a new technical narrative is understanding the logic of the individual steps. In this case, the initial skipping of the link stitches at the leather plates and how that decision interacts with doubling up the long stitch was a lot of fun.

I’m watching some back videos as I find them so interesting. It s good of you to share your expertise.

Beautiful look with this binding and stitching

Wonderful stuff as always - I'll be trying to get my head round the stitching tonight!

Excellent vid!

I love the look of this stitching - it's now definitely on my "to do"... well, "to try"... list! Thank you!

Such a lovely book, thank you as always.

Excellent! So detailed. Thank you!

This particular video has cleared up a heck of a lot for me. I'd been interested in the concept of limp vellum style bindings since watching/reading some of the links you provided in one of your videos about conservation/enclosures but was struggling to get my head around things. I've got a small project I want to do as a present for a friends daughter and I think this will be an excellent binding to try out on it. Need to source a suitable material for the cover and order one of those screw punches. Even without the embellishments coming in the next video it is a lovely looking book but the quick preview of the stitching of the closure has got me really looking forward to that one as well.

i haven't watched all 3 parts yet but what i can tell is that those 14th century monks (because the people who made these were probably monks) had a _lot_ of time on their hands.

Marvelous! Will have to try it out before the spring semester begins 🤩

I loved this and can't wait to see the final part!

Maravilhoso seu trabalho, adoro, obrigada por compartilhar tanta sabedoria.

Excellent! Do you think you might do a limp vellum binding some day?

Very comprehensive, the longstitch is my go to binding for softcover journals. May I ask how you would prevent the paper material near the slits from tearing or chaffing due to sewing or prolonged use? I typically use a 300 gsm cotton watercolour/khadi paper for the cover, but even if I use a fabric cover I still can't to get the slits perfectly neat and free from tears or ugly chaffing (not sure I'm explaining myself well). Does it have to do with just practicing neat and careful sewing, or should I be lining the cover or spine with some protectant (like the leather one you used in part 1)? Or does it have to do with the amount of wax on the thread, or the type of paper/board used for the cover? I would really appreciate your help because this is vexing me.

I’m learning so much from your videos. I wonder if I might comment on a few details that I have noticed over time and get your response. I noticed that, when you are glueing a sheet, you mostly dab at the paper rather than wipe it with your brush. I’ve started imitating this and I find that it helps to keep from pushing the paper over the glue on the scrap sheet underneath. There is nonetheless still the difficulty of holding the paper and inevitably having to put your fingers on a glued area. I try to watch what you do with that hand after you lift it from the glue to keep it from spreading glue around. Advice? Also with respect to glueing, I noticed how carefully you work with the the scrap sheet you use under the sheet you are glueing. At first I thought you were folding the sheet afterwards so that you could use it again, and so did so myself. But the more carefully I looked, I saw that this was mostly just extra care you take, as you lay it aside, not to start spreading the glue around on the table. Am I right about this? I can also see generally how much cleaner you keep your workspace. In my own usual too impatient rush, I tend to get glue everywhere and of course the glue then gets on the work and spoils it. Do it right the second time, I always say! I noticed that you keep your well manicured fingernails slightly longer, as a guitar player might. I’m wondering if you find this handy (handy!) as a way of making very precise creases without the bone folder. I’ve begun doing this myself. Allbest to you .,,

Very interesting work. Can you tell me what is the cover material.? Is it vellum or something that looks like vellum. Tks. Linda

This question is off topic to the content of the video but i wanted to know how do you round the spine of a perfect bound book and an oversewn book?

Hello Darryn! Apologies in advance,i have a question that has nothing to do with this project of yours. I realised the printing paper im buying and use to sow my journals the past 6 months has probably its grain 'wrong'. Im buying regular yellowed A4 sheets(80gr) whom i then proceed to fold in half(parallel to the width) to make signatures. Their grain though runs the length of the A4,and i only realised it today,after some 10 journals..! Where could i buy A4 with their grain parallel to the width and not the length,so the folding be smooth?

What size bit is in your screw punch?