Thoughts...the twine can be purchased at the Dollar Tree An easy no sew method often used with travelers notebooks is to make your signatures, slip as many large elastics as you have signatures over your cover and center them into the fold, then slip each signature into one of the bands until all are nearly tucked inside your journal. You can slide them in and out as you need to, as they get full or need to be replaced, or you can add bands and signatures as long as the spine is wide enough. I love this method. For the rings, I would suggest using smaller rings so the book isn't so floppy. As you fill the book, you can add a larger ring. The gummed tape you showed is being used in a class I'm taking right now to make our own washi tape. We are painting, stamping, doodling, etc on lengths of it. You could do the same to use as your binding for your book. You could cover the tape with fabric or whatever you wanted to create the external spine after you attached all your pages together. There is a lady I follow and have taken a class from, Ali something, Vintage books or Pages or something... I'll get it for you, who is brilliant when it comes to making and binding books! Oh, and cheap 11x17 copy paper from Staples would be an easy way to play with different larger zine sizes, unless you wanted to go really big then I would use butcher paper. ❤
I suggest a tab binding for the book you were wondering about how to bind. You can make fabric tape with your choice of fabric and double-sided tape and create the tabs to be any size you like. There are videos on RU-vid. I have used the tab binding because I dislike the rings. Then there’s also elastic. I’m teaching a class right now to beginners where we are simply using elastic around a hard spine. This produces a book structure that allows you to take pages in an out or rearrange them, kind of like a traveler’s notebook. In fact, I was binding pages into a traveler’s notebook using elastic while watching this video!❤
I would love to see a flip through of your scrap paper junk journal with the stapled binding. I have watched your videos of your first trashy junk journal many times over and would love to see your progress on the current one.
I love #8 - no binding at all, just a lovely collection of beautiful gorgeous papers. Why not? And the upcycled life insurance document journal - love that you discovered items stashed in there.
The black leather like journal had a very unique binding. I think it would be fun to try to recreate it for a travel journal. Thanks for the great examples. The inkbox book from the 12x12 card stock was also super cool. I'll have to try that, too. Thanks so much for sharing!!!
LOVE the idea of no binding at all. I'm going through old greeting cards, and didn't like the idea of leaving them in a box, or binding them. Putting them in an old book cover and leaving them on a table top hits that sweet spot. I made some one-ring mini books of blank index cards; covers are book board covered with lokta paper. We use them in our household as "Stuff That Needs to Get Done" books. It lives on our kitchen table, and we can add as necessary, and tear off then the task is completed.
You have so many great ideas! I really like the small ones using jump rings. (I love small books and journals.) Thank you for sharing all of these ideas. ❤
Thanks for the great ideas Margarete :) I make junk journals and even though I sew, I don't sew in signatures. I use elastic, twine, ribbon etc to bind them in or use the tab binding which is great as your pages lay flat :) There is also a document binding which is just the top and bottom of pages for something diffeerent also. Collage is so realaxing and fun :)
Thank you for sharing this information. I learned a lot. I have made only one junk journal (glue book), but that's all so far. I just glued items in without much thought. It was fun, and I liked the way it turned out. But now, I would like to learn how to think through a little bit better about items I collage. Thank you for your lovely tutorials and for showing us what you've made.
So many ideas Margarete. I recently saw Susanne Rose Art channel making home made painted and stamped washi with that glue backed tape. There's another idea if you didn't want just brown tape to join pages.
Margarete: I’ve been lucky enough to just find some good looking 3 hole binders. They can hold a nice size page, especially for collaging. Also, I’ve found smaller ring binders. It works! Carol from California
I enjoyed your no sew binding video. I was going to suggest the tab binding, but it looks like someone beat me to it. I have used it and really liked how it turned out. I loved your ideas for reenforcing holes. Thank you!
Great ideas. The crisscross binding is beautiful! I just use the 3 hole pamphlet stitch. I have also done the washi tape binding which turned out pretty cool!
The loose binding is like a file folder. A cool feel! I like to use a twine or small elastic and put it through eyelets, or just wrap around the spine, and put the signatures through on the inside. This is my favorite, and I use for my monthly journals, with pages being added or removed according to the need! I start with 3 signatures and 3 o4 4 pages double-size folded and put together for each of the signatures. My current one just has the "jewelry" hemp just wound around the spine several times, and tied. A gutted book works well for this, with spine reinforced with a good paper. I love the old Readers Digest covers. Glad to share! Hugs! Peggy
The unique one toward the end is like a modified midori style, which has been my preferred method as I never can commit to a permanent composition. I love being able to change it up...keeps it fresh and like I always have an ongoing project to work on. :)
I have done a couple of small journals with tab binding. I like it because the pages lay flat when opened. It does require a bit of forethought for the assembly. I think there’s a formula, like an even number of journal pages, including front and back cover, and an odd number of tabs, from top to bottom. The fun part is you can make the tabs out of different patterned paper, tap or fabric, creating a more eclectic look 😊
As to the book you haven't bound, I have found this works--clip your pages together very tightly so you have a nice, even book block. Then put Tacky Glue all over the left edges you want in the spine and smear it around evenly. Add a piece of cheesecloth to the glued edges. Let it all dry and then glue the cheesecloth to the book spine. In your case, you will have to make a spine for your covers. The glued cheesecloth does a good job holding all the pages together.
I like this idea, Donna, but what happens when you start turning the pages? Won't they wiggle loose eventually? I wanted to do something like that, but thought the pages wouldn't be secured enough with just glue. 💜
@@MargareteMiller Hi! I've made two smaller books with this type of binding and they are in my personal collection so I don't turn the pages a lot, but nothing has come apart yet. I have, however, only done it with regular copy paper as pages. If your pages are heavier, I really can't say what will happen, but I figure it's not much different than the way they make glued bindings nowadays. Maybe you can try it on something small and see how you like it.
I absolutely adore your work, I have masses and masses of papers, card etc, but not the interesting stuff that you have, I can't seem to get it together for some reason 🙄🙄🙄 I am going to sit with laptop and go through all of your videos, ...I do make books but they are too random, like my brain, toooo many options, so i need to sort that one too. Tks Margarete, love your work 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 I need to incorporate your goods that I buy into my work and not keep them as precious items 😁😁😁😁🤣🤣🤣🥰🥰
Another no-sew is Laura Denison's "stacking the deck" book, which is lots of fun! However, pages are not removable. The are pockets, tho, and I have made lots of these, too!
Great videio!! I've done a good few of the bindings you've shown here, but I can't figure out the small cards with Tyvek? I'll have to watch again. Another easy one is folding an accordion style journal. You can use any papers or even patchwork together your papers to make them work, then glue to cardstock or cardboard front and back. One more is accordion folding a paper binding making hills and valleys and then gluing your pages into it. I'm horrible at explaining so good thing I don't have a RU-vid channel! 😀 Thanks for this video!!
You didn't mention the elastic band method of binding. This type of binding allows you to take out every page if you want to. It is ideally, I guess, strung between the top and the bottom of the journal through eyelets. Papers are folded in half and inserted under the elastic band. I hope I'm explaining this well. Also, there is tab binding, which is also a non-sewing method of binding. That is more involved.
Thank you for all the 0:08 helpful info and lots of options! I'd love to know where you got the clear organizer for longer papers. I've never seen that one and could definitely use it.
2ways: join the “Collage Art Collective” where the assignments are posted every week. Or, purchase the entire list (52 weekly assignments) for $5 from my shop. I’m actually on vacation (sorry for not responding sooner!) so my shop is closed at the moment, but I’ll be back in a couple of weeks. Links are in the description box. Thanks for asking 💜
