How to Make a Decorative Spine for Your Handmade Journal | Bookbinding Tutorial | Peg and Awl

As I'm discovering, you're discovering. In this video I bring you into the mess with me: figuring out the spine of my book, testing materials, and rambling as things come to mind. I'm inspired by nature and trash, and I don't always know where I'm headed. I use an antique book from my grandma's house, leather from the trash, vintage textiles, and inspiration from the land to make my journal. At the end of the video, I share a bunch of my journal pages filled with drawings, cut outs, and scribblings and I ramble on joyfully about it! The question that initiated this video came from Natalie, who works with us — she saw my journals in the studio and asked: "How do you make these spines?" So here's my answer! Full Book Block Sewing Instructions: Stitching a Coverless Journal    • Bookbinding at Home No. 2: Stitching A Cov...   For Cover Sewing Process: How to Make a Hardcover Book with Vintage Materials    • How to Make a Hardcover Book with Vintage ...   0:00 Introduction and Ideas 3:00 Measuring 3:40 First Flower 6:20 More Materials 7:50 Second Flower 10:18 Gluing First Spine 12:10 Marking Signatures 13:10 Making Holes with Jeweler Saw 15:12 Vintage Textile 15:50 Cover 19:30 Fourth Flower Test 23:35 Final Flower in Spine 28:11 Finished Journal 30:00 Journal Tour 🛠 MATERIALS MENTIONED → Board (for cutting flower shapes) → Scrap leather → Found materials / reclaimed scraps → Bone folder → Jeweler's saw. I've been through many a-battle with a jewelers saw. And maybe it was good for me. There are less expensive ones that will work, but prepare for battle. This one has been great. https://www.riogrande.com/product/kne... → Bookbinding glue: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Lineco/... (Lineco Neutral PH adhesive) → Needle & thread → Paper:https://www.amazon.com/Strathmore-Dra... (Strathmore drawing paper) Also mentioned in this Video: → Warwick Furnace Farm: https://www.warwickfurnacefarm.com/ → A Rural Pen: Ink here: https://pegandawlbuilt.com/products/a... Thomas's Instagram:   / a.rural.pen   → The Good Ship Illustration: https://www.thegoodshipillustration.com/ Our Shop: https://pegandawlbuilt.com/ Music from Epidemic Sound