BOOKBINDING - Lesson 1 08/1/21
As usual, an audio version of this post is to be found HERE So, you have assembled some tools, both you and your workspace are clean and you are ready to go! Let's start with paper-folding - quite a cathartic process, once you get the hang of it. Assuming A4 (it's a nice easy size to work with at first) place the sheet with the long side running side-to-side in front of you (called landscape). Assuming a right-handed worker, take the right edge and fold it over to the left edge, lining up the edges before lightly pressing down on the fold, then use the bone-folder to press more firmly and 'set' the crease. Turn the paper and fold again - at right angles to the initial fold. With larger sheets you may do this several times. Interesting useless fact: it is nigh impossible to fold a sheet of paper more than seven times... Unfold that sheet by one half and use your knife to cut the fold thus: Keep your left fingers on t...