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Bookbinding and Repair
Volcano Arts Folder |
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Measuring Rules These steel rules will save you endless time measuring joints between boards, turn-ins and all kinds of standard measuring tasks. They are as beautiful as they are functional. 18" length / 5 widths Precision measurements
without measuring! Set of 5 / $25.00 |
Recommended by the bookbinding
Bookbinders love these for measuring turn-ins, and card and scrapbook makers love them for drawing or cutting borders. Glass artists put cork on the back to keep them from sliding. They're great for making metal mesh frames and so many other great projects. |
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Beginning
Bookbinder's
Toolkit Bookbinder's Toolkit Bookbinder's Toolkit
Level 2 Bookbinder's Toolkit
Level 3 Assembly Upgrade for Hole Punching Cradle
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Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
* The cradle is not difficult to assemble, however you will need to cut 2 slits in dense book board. People who have difficulty with this task should consider the assembly upgrade and we'll take care of everything for you. |
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Volcano Arts Folder This folder is made out of state-of-the-art Teflon® and is so comfortable to use for folding and compressing signatures and manipulating paper on boxes and books. Glue won't stick to it, and it's refined enough for folding delicate papers and origami. It's heavier than a bone folder and makes folding heavier papers like handmade, cardstock or watercolor a LOT easier. $32.50
A note from Christine Cox:
In your words
In your words |
Every angle of this tool was designed by book artist Christine Cox. This is the BEST tool for folding your lightest to heaviest papers, and it's lovely for folding cardstock. Now you can easily fold several sheets of text weight paper at once. Really!
High tech meets low
tech
Don't abuse your new tool:
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Bone Folder This classic genuine bone is for folding paper, smoothing, turning in and compressing. It has a million uses! While my Volcano Arts Teflon Folder is my absolute favorite tool for folding signatures and for box making, I couldn't make a fine leather book without also using my Classic Bone Folder. I'm a firm believer that there isn't just one tool for all the different folding and burnishing tasks done while making a book. -- Christine Cox |
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Wooden Folding
Rib
(4 1/4" long) $6.00 |
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Book
Cloth Colors may appear different on your monitor. May we suggest that you buy our Book Cloth Swatch Sheet? |
$8.00 / yard |
Black |
Dusty Plum |
Navy |
Green |
Tobacco |
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Premium Japanese Book Cloth 2
$12.00 / yard
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Cappuccino Tan
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Premium
Japanese Book Cloth 3
$15.00 / yard
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Cream Linen
Acanthus
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Moiré
Book Cloth $20.00/yard |
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 Ming Red
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Book Cloth Swatch Sheet Book Cloth Swatch Sheet International customers, we will contact you by email before shipping your order for payment of the shipping amount on this item.
Check out the tips and information about
Book Cloth in our Idea Center |
 Christine Cox 8/04 Braided Spine Journal Kit  This is great! I really appreciate how helpful and flexible you are. I see
the beginning of a long working relationship... :) |
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Note: Colors on your monitor will be different than real life. Please allow for differences. Related Link: |
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12-Ply Waxed Binder's Thread $8.00
There's a photo of another beautiful
book with raised bands on the spine
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4-Ply Waxed Thread Color Samplers Our linen samplers are made of 2 yards each of 4-ply waxed Irish linen thread in the 3 colors noted. They are color coordinated so that you can use them in separate books or in the same book. Depending on the size and stitch of your book, each sampler has enough thread to make as many as 3 books (or more if you are making miniatures).
$5.00 Garden: The best of
the garden; Rose, lavender and plum Summer Memories: In
the background of our favorite summer memories; lovely shades of green
Elegance:
Elegance is all about style; black, charcoal gray and slate gray
Stars and Stripes:
Yep, it's patriotic red, white and blue!
Wine Country: The
colors of the wine country; burgundy, leaf green and plum In Your Words |
Eggs: Easter, babies and the wonderful tones of handmade paper.
Heather: 3 light variegated colors;
denim, lavender, olive
Ocean Breeze: You can almost smell the
salt; turquoise, teal, green
Jewel:
Dark, rich jewel-tone colors; blue, forest green and
dark rust Tropicana:
You can just feel those island breezes; teal, salmon and sunshine Idaho:
The colors of Idaho; sky blue, sand and sage brush Fall Leaves:
Wonderful earth tones;
rust, butterscotch and dark brown
Southwest:
Colors of the desert sunset; rose, turquoise and
lavender
The Blues:
A range of blues from
light to dark
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Christine Cox
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2-Ply Waxed Linen Thread For those times when you don't need the bulk of a thicker thread, we carry 2-ply waxed Irish linen thread. It's perfect for cased-in books. 110-125 yards. 18/2-ply 50 grams / $16.00 |
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Book Corners Beautiful metal corners protect the corners of your precious (or just cool and good looking) books. Simply place them where you want them and then gently tap them with a mallet. We recommend a Rawhide Mallet, but your steel hammer will work in a pinch (just be sure to protect the corners with a piece of leather or something). Engraved Silver Plate, Brass or Nickel Silver. $6.50 / 4 |
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 Nickel Silver |
 Brass |
 Engraved Silver Plate |
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| Sewing | |
 I LOVE looking at all the ideas on your site and recommended it to my fellow students in my "Book Arts" class. -- Judy S.
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Binding Needles 6
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1 / $1.50 |
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Curved Sewing
Needles Some people swear by a curved needle for sewing link stitches (i.e. Coptic). These curved needles are high quality, rust-resistent and English. 2 / $5.00 |
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Endband (AKA
'Headband') Black and white endband sold by the foot. Ours are silk threads woven onto string or cane centers and fastened to cotton tape. Overall width is approx. 5/8". Use them at the head and tail of your cased in books for a finished look that will keep dust out of the spine. Also great when making altered books for a nice detail. $2.00/ft. |
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 Brown/Ivory |
 Black/White |
 Green/Yellow |
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Mull (AKA super,
crash) A sized cotton 'cheesecloth' used for lining spines and connecting cover boards. Standard weave. Use it when sewing over tapes or when you just need extra strength. Can also be used to strengthen joint when making album or stab-bound books. $1.30 / Approx. 12" X 10" |
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Artificial
Sinew Use artificial sinew for sewing your coolest books, especially those over raised supports. We carry it in a 20 yd. bobbin in either black or natural (shown).
$4.25
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| Aluminum Screw Posts Beautiful wedding albums, guest books and photo albums are bound using these aluminum screw posts. They are reusable so that you can add and remove pages from your album whenever you need to. It's the easiest way to bind a book! 3 sizes available.
We now carry a 5mm tip for our
Japanese Screw Punch. It's just the right size for
screw posts! |
10 / $4.00
Screw Post
Extensions
(1/2" aluminum)
Extensions |
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We have recipes and tips for using our
methylcel |
Methyl Cellulose This powder mixes easily with cold water and with PVA and other adhesives. It is non-staining, will not discolor paper, will not decompose in dry or liquid state and is not affected by heat or freezing. Forms a highly flexible bond but is a weak adhesive by itself. Great for increasing open time when using PVA (it dries slowly so you have more time to work). It's perfect for making paste papers and marbling size. Viscosity: 1900-2200 cps, pH 7.0.
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PVA
Adhesive
Acid free bookbinding glue. We are very proud of the quality of our adhesive and of our bottles. We pay a little extra for an easy-pour top which can be cut down to pour at the rate that you want. No little dishes lying around with dried up adhesive in the bottom!
5
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8 oz. 32 oz. Refill |
We cannot guarantee PVA if it freezes so we recommend not purchasing it outside California between 11/1 and 4/1. If you order it we will ship it, we just can't guarantee it.
Our 5 oz. and 8 oz. come in squeeze bottles with easy-pour tops. Our 32 oz. refill size comes with a plain screw top.
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Wheat Starch Paste A general purpose bookbinding adhesive for use on paper, binders board and leather. Suitable for paper-to-paper adhesion such as bookplates, hinging, repairing torn pages and corners. It's a precooked powder; dissolves easily in cold water and can also be mixed with PVA or methyl cellulose. It's the best choice for working with your finest leather. Wheat Paste is acidic, pH 6-6.5 (measured in a 70% slurry). To buffer it, add 10% (by weight) of calcium carbonate. $7.50 / 1/4 lb. |
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Cheap
Glue Brush
90˘
Did you ruin your brush with PVA? Learn how to save it. |
Sally Monahan has a great tip for us: Buy 2 brushes and cut the bristles on one down to about 1" long. Now you have a short, stiff brush for pounding glue between signatures as well as your longer-bristled, general purpose glue brush. |
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Linen Binding Tape 70% linen, 30% Cotton 1 Foot / $1.40 5 Foot / $6.50
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Beeswax 1 oz. / $3.50 |
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Scalpels Preferred by fine bookbinders for their cutting accuracy and exquisite sharpness, these scalpels are made of surgical steel and come with 5 blades. Both handles use size # 24 (curved) or # 25 (straight) replacement blades. Caution: these knives are sharp, sharp, sharp and do not come with a case (although it would be fun to make one from polymer clay). Please handle with great care. We recommend storing the blades in our Plastic Tubes. Replacement Scalpel
Blades Package of 5 Replacement
Blades Package of 25 Replacement
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 #24 (Curved) |
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#4 Scalpel Handle w/5 Blades
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Genuine Japanese Screw Punch and 9 tips. This is a great punch and it's the real Japanese model; Christine's favorite. It works with a screw action so it punches round holes through leather and stacks of paper easily and comfortably! In testing it punched a clean hole in 20 sheets of 20 # paper. It comes with NINE genuine Japanese tips (see sizes below) so this is a great value! Genuine
Japanese Screw Punch Sizes:
Set of 9 / $48
Genuine Japanese Screw Punch (NO tips)
Genuine Japanese
Screw Punch with NO Tips Our Plastic Tubes are great for storing your extra tips. You can cut them to size with regular scissors. |
Individual
Replacement Tips for Japanese Screw Punch $11.00
$8.00
We have help with cleaning your Japanese Screw
Punch tips
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Hole Punching Cradle Kit Note: If you can't or don't want to
cut 2 narrow slits in book board, I recommend that you buy the assembled
Hole Punching Cradle. |
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This 'Knotting Awl' is perfect for
punching holes in your text sections, especially when you are using
light threads. |
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Light
Duty Awl
The perfect size awl for most lighter weights of thread. It's one of Christine's favorites and the one she uses in most classes. It comes packaged in a plastic safety tube so that you can safely carry it with you (although not in your carry-on luggage at the airport). $4.00
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Medium
Duty Awl
A good bookbinding awl has a straight, un-tapered shaft made of strong steel. A comfortable handle makes it a joy to use. This awl is best for heavier bookbinding threads. 1 / $6.00 |
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6" Plastic Tubes (2) These 6" long X 1/2" plastic tubes are just the ticket for storing so many things. You can cut them down with regular scissors and customize them for everything from needles to an awl. Corral your eyelets and shepherd your beads. Buy several, once you get started, you'll find a million uses for them! They come with a very secure cap so you don't need to worry about losing your stuff. 2 for $1.50
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