Beginner's Bookbinding Kit - Materials, Tools, & Tutorial

These kits include all the materials, pre-cut to size, to make a casebound book, along with the Essential Tools pack to ensure you've got the right equipment to make it, and the video tutorial. There are 7 different designs to choose from, all made using different combinations of the materials available from our shop, and each design can be ordered individually, letting you make as many as you want. These kits are a fun activity to do with family or friends, and are the perfect gift for those crafty people in your life!

The video tutorial for our Beginners Bookbinding Kits features instructions from an award winning Scottish bookbinder - Gillian Stewart of JuJu Books in Glasgow.

In this tutorial Gillian will guide you through the steps to create your very own handmade book, showing you new techniques and tricks for bookbinding that you can take on further if you want to continue in the ancient craft of bookbinding.

The materials included are:

• 6 x Sheets of Paper
• 2 x Coloured Endpapers
• 2 x Marbled Cover Papers
• 1 x Coloured Cloth Strip
• 1 x Spine Lining Material
• 1 x Length of Headband
• 1 x Length of Thread
• 2 x Cover Boards
• 1 x Spine Board
• 1 x Board Spacer
• 1 x Bottle of PVA
• 1 x Paper Hole Guide

The Essential Tools pack contains:

• 1 x Clip Point Knife
• 1 x Glue Brush
• 1 x Needle
• 1 x Bone Folder
• 1 x Pricker

The Essential Tools pack can only be sold to customers that are 18 years of age or older. By adding this item to your basket you confirm you are 18 years or over. Further information can be found here

An internet connection & compatible device are required to access the tutorial, which can only be accessed by your selected email address. If giving this as a gift, we will contact you to ensure we have the correct email address for the recipient.