Traditional Bookbinding Technique - Casebinding
Traditional Bookbinding Technique - Casebinding
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By Nick Cowlishaw
2 DVDs in the box
This is an ideal DVD for those wishing to learn some of the skills and techniques needed in the craft of hand bookbinding. Two styles of casebinding are demonstrated; flat backed and rounded. The techniques shown include: sewing, book edge trimming, rounding and backing a book spine, lining the spine and casemaking.
Contents - Disc 1 - Casebinding - Flat Back Style
- Folding Sections
- French sewing
- Endpapers
- Spine Gluing
- Ploughing
- Ploughing the Foreedge
- Ploughing the Head and Tail
- Lining the Spine
- Making the Case
- Casing In
Contents - Disc 2 - Casebinding - Rounded and Backed Style
- Sewing on Tapes
- Endpapers
- Endpaper Attachment
- Gluing the Spine
- Trimming the Book
- Rounding and Backing
- Lining the Spine
- Making the Case
- Casing In
- Final Checks
Nick Cowlishaw served a six year Hand Bookbinding Apprenticeship and has been a professional bookbinder ever since, with fifty years experience of the craft. He taught Craft Bookbinding full time at the London College of Printing for 18 years and part time at Morley College London for a established in 1996.
A 10% discount will be applied automatically if all three DVD in the 'Traditional Bookbinding Technique' series are purchased together.
2 DVDs totalling approximately 90 minutes, Multi Regional, PAL, 16:9 format
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I purchased three DVDs of Nick Cowlishaw's workshops. The instructional part is very good. Nick takes the right amount of time to explain and teach both the how and the why. Only very redundant pieces are cut out for time which I like. The reason for 4 stars instead of 5 is that the quality of both the video and the audio is low. The close ups could have been better to show Instructionally what is really happening in detail. I know that this was a family production and I am all for that, but for the price of the videos, I would expect a higher quality product. That said, I still give high marks for the experience and wisdom that Nick brings to the table. Thank you.
A useful pair of DVDs covering Flat Back and Rounded back