themori-witch: spells-and-sorcery: Simple book binding tutorial, very useful for making your own per

themori-witch:

spells-and-sorcery:

Simple book binding tutorial, very useful for making your own personalize Book of Shadows

*screaming*

When I do the sheet of paper on the inside that gets glued to the inside cover and the first pages (I was taught that sheet was called a standard, Idk if that’s correct or not), I usually make it slightly wider than it should be (bear with me here). So, taking the example above, instead of 9"x6", I would make it 9.25"x6". Then, with that extra, when I fold the sheet in half, I make a score mark 1/8" to the right and left of that center mark. When I glue in my standard, that extra gets tucked slightly between the signatures and the cover. I started doing that because I found that my books would either be very tight when opening them, or the standard would buckle in funny ways and wouldn’t look the greatest. After playing around with it several times, adding that extra and tucking it was the best solution I came up with.