Make Time: Japanese Book-Binding 

This is one of the best book binding videos out there! So calming and very clear.

I am an art teacher for a homeschool co-op. I want the kids to do weekly sketchbook assignments...I am having them MAKE their sketchbooks (layering art skills!) and this tutorial is exactly what I was searching for! These directions were simple yet effective and so clear. Another big plus - no fancy schmancy tools, equipment, or supplies needed (I can't afford that for 30+ kids!) My hope is that my co-op kids will feel empowered to recreate this at home with supplies they'll have on hand. Thank you for this video!!

The best tutorial on RU-vid for this binding Ty kindly

Thank you for the excellent tutorial, including the template. I made my book from felt and love this binding. Even though the book is very bulky, I can still flip through the pages. I love the way it turned out.

six months ago I made a notebook for studying. now I'm watching the video again in order to make a new one for the coming semester ✨ Thank you so much.

I feel so humbled after this video… I came for a tutorial (got an amazing one) and now my anxiety went down a level. Thank you

Definitely going to try this out with a half sheet of 8 x 11 paper. I journal regularly and think this will be a great way to create quick, custom journals. Thanks!

Simply amazing! and I love that you show other people's creations too.

Thanks you guys for making the video more simple. You guys are always the best. I think Im getting the whole book binding activity.

Excellent video! So very well presented! Loved the examples at the beginning and very good examples at the end with other makers!! Great job! 6/20/23

Thank you for the video! I'm using this technique to bind some sheet music together.

I'm going to use the binding method for an art book. I agree this is one of the best tutorials I've seen. It seems well planned out, paced and just the amount and level of narration content needed. Often tutorials ramble on and take forever to complete. Thank you!

Just came across this video on my feed. This was a well done, very informative, and educational video. The step-by-step process was explain very clearly and made this project so much more accessible! I love it and look forward to making my own project book.😊

I tried it out, It was really easy to follow through, and the end result came was really good!

Thank you , it is the easiest book binding

LOVE THIS JAPANESE BINDING METHOD. Thank you for making a excellent VR. I totally enjoyed it, seeing the other books made it even better. Big smiles Melbourne Australia 🙃 ❤️👍🏼❤️

Thanks ,Sir. This video helped me a lot!

❤❤❤😮instructions are steady and calm. Thanks 🙏 for sharing this.

Thanks for this video.

Thanks for explaining this method. I have bound some coffee stained paper l have been working on. ☕️

Hello! Thank you for making this great tutorial video for us to watch and enjoy. It is very clear, easy to follow, and understand. I believe after watching this helpful video, that I can use this book-binding technique myself. Thank you very much!

I can't wait to try this! Thanks for explaining and showing each step so clearly.

Finally a clear video i don't know why you don't have million views yet

Great help. Thank you

Great tutorial! Thank you so much!

thank you so much it helped me a lot with my school project

Finally able to do it, thanks a million!!

We are getting married in two weeks, and we are making the guest book. The plan is all the pages will be fairly loose in and then after the wedding bind the together like this, possibly with photos from the photo booth with peoples page! We are designing it all from scratch so knowing I can bind it all together after is giving us lots of flexibility with the plan. This is a helpful guide, but I think I will use something a little more robust than dental floss to help contain our wedding memories :-D

perfect!

Some helpful tips there - we especially like making the template to get evenly spaced stitch points rather than measuring each of them out. Never thought to use embroidery thread before either! We've used it to make a Japanese recipe book. After typing out the recipe (and inserting a photo into the text) we printed them on the LEFT half of A4 size sheets of paper (we're in Europe) in landscape mode. The sheets were then folded in half to make A5 pages with the fold on the right and cut edges on the left (Japanese style)*. The cut edges are bound together and we were left with recipes on pages 3, 5, 7 etc. (page 1 has a title on it) and a blank sheet on pages 2, 4, 6. This means we can make notes about the dish on the blank side in fountain pen without worrying about the ink bleeding through and spoiling the previous recipe. You're also left with a pocket you can pop notes/newspaper cuttings/ingredient labels into - we might try gluing up the bottom edge inside the folded paper next time. Hope this is understandable!

İ needed something like this for my violin sheets thanks for explaining!!

Can't I just use the needles to poke holes through the paper or is a thumbtack really necessary? Love the vid

Really helpful video. Thanks!

Thanks mate

Very useful tutorial! Thank you! May I ask you if it is possible to use for the cover something thicker, a cardbord for example?

This is a fantastic video and I love the look of this bookbinding technique. I'm hoping to use textured cold press watercolour paper for the pages for the inside, but I'm wondering if you can anticipate any problems I might have using this type of paper.

Super tip.

does it work with a lot more pages?? like 100

This video is great. Just one question, if I want to make the same size but have it like in landscape mode (instead of the holes being on the longer side of the sheet, putting them on the shorter side) do I have to make the same amount of folds or is it less? To make my hole guide.

I just made one and used old postcards as covers, and it looks nice! I needed a small sketchbook to practice drawing in and I didn't want to buy a new one, and new sketchbooks always make me nervous because I don't want to mess them up, but I'm not so stressed about this one because I didn't pay for it! Thank you for this video. The instructions are very clear and I'll probably come back to make more sketchbooks haha :D

Based!

Does it have to be landscape orientation? Will it work in portrait?

Is there a max recommended number of paper for this book-binding technique?

Awesome. Do you think there is max amount of paper? I have a 232 page book I am going to self bind and wonder if there would issues to doing it all at once with this style? or perhaps i will have to bind sections at time. thoughts?

Use your cutting mat grid instead of ruler!

This a waste of time. It doesn’t,t show the stitching.

what is the minimum amount of pages (printer paper) that can be used?

Used it for my sketchbook thank you❤

What kind of glue are you using?