Long and Link Stitch Binding Inspired by a Medieval Book Part 1 // Adventures in Bookbinding

In this series of videos I will demonstrate making a long and link stitch binding inspired by a 14th century limp vellum binding held at the Bodleian in Oxford. In the first video I will prepare the cover and the sections. The second will show sewing the text. The third and final video will show the weaving on the long stitch sewing and attaching the string for the closure. This is meant to be a modern book inspired by a medieval book. I have used modern materials, tools and techniques. It is not meant to be a model of an historic book.

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00:00 Long and Link Stitch Binding Inspired by a Medieval Book
01:06 Folding sections
03:50 Measuring to determine the cover size
04:38 Making the cover
06:52 Making the holes int he spine of the cover
09:49 Attaching a button for a closure
10:37 Prepunching the sections for sewing
12:58 Making the spine plates
14:28 Shameless Patreon plug

The book that this project is inspired by is "Bodleian Library MS. Lat. misc. d. 66".
https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/obj...

For more information about medieval limp bindings see below.

The Archaeology of #Medieval #Bookbinding by J. A. Szirmai

Adam Larsson: Medieval Limp Vellum/Leather Structure
https://guildofbookworkers.org/sites/...

Pamela Spitzmueller: Long & Link Stitch Binding
https://guildofbookworkers.org/sites/...

The leather for the spine plates is Siegel fair natural goat
https://siegelleather.com/product/fai...

The tools and materials I use can be purchased from specialist suppliers and manufacturers in my suppliers list. If you are in Australia I have a limited range of items I supply by mail or by pickup from the bindery in Brisbane.
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English Closed Caption titles by Carrie Snyder. Thank you!!

The music used in this video is performed by Jon Sayles. Jon has some great classical guitar music on his website, which he shares freely.