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1. Introduction: Hello, and welcome to my studio. My name is Idoa Gasi, and today I want to
teach you how to make this beautiful
hemp leiff binding, also called an Asa Noah Toji. The hemliff binding
has two sewing lines. One, the traditional
four hole binding, two extra holes in the corners
like the noble binding, and three more holes divided between the stations
symmetrically, giving us this
beautiful pattern. This video is part
of three videos. I'm making about three different Japanese
sewing patterns.
2. What You Need For This Class: I will start this
video with a bookblock already bound and the
cloth covers already made. To get to this stage, what you need to do is pile up single sheets of paper in the
order you want them to be. Make sure to leave around
1.5 centimeter margins. And I also recommend you to
make an inner binding to the bookblock so all
the papers won't shift and move while you
are working on the outside. About the covers, you
can make paper covers. This is very common,
and you can also make cloth covers like these
with a creasing here, so it would help you open
the book while handling it. If you want to learn how
to get to this stage, I have a class dedicated to the Japanese
four hole binding. In that class, I
show you how to make the book plock how to
make the inner binding, attaching it with paper strings. And also, I'm teaching
you how to make the cloth covers with a creasing to
help you open the book. So what I suggest
you do is watch my Japanese four
hole binding class up until Lesson Number six. It is here on Skillshare, and then come and join me in this wonderful sewing pattern
of the hemp lift binding. So are you ready?
Let's start working.
3. Hemp Leaf Sewing Tutorial: Will start this video by locating two wood
blocks on the table. These wood blocks will allow me to pierce holes for sewing, but you can also use a pile
of bookbinding boards or something in your house just protect your working surface. I will start by placing
the back cover on it. The book block. And on that, I would locate the front cover, making sure that the
creasing line is towards me. I'll take a piece of weight and see everything is straight, and to my satisfaction,
everything is good. I'll put the weight over here. Bring my template. I'm locating it at the edge of the book. This template has nine holes, the four traditional
four hole binding, and five extra near the spine. So what I'm going
to do is add in our class resources a PDF
file with the template, so you can go
there, download it, print it, and then
you can work with me. I'm going to make it
as the size 23.5, a five size and half letter. I would locate the weight
on it so it won't move. I'll take my all and I would locate it here on
the first hole. I'm lifting my arms so it would be an extension of the hole. I'm going to bend my knees and going inside the book
with my whole body, and just with a twisting
movement, go inside. I'm putting my
fingernail on the hole, and when I'm taking it out, I can see I'm in enough. I'm moving to the next hole, lifting my arm and going inside. Okay. Hold the book so
it won't shift and move. And you want all as parallel as you can.
I'll take it out. Yeah, it's enough. Let me
go to the third hole here. Bending my knees and
with my whole body, I'm going inside taking it out, right, and my
fourth hole inside. That's enough. Now I'm
going to the next line. So let me start here. Inside. I feel it's inside, take it out. Great. Moving on to the second one. Hang out. Third one here, let me hold with the
fingers between. You want it as
parallel as you can be because we want the holes on the other
side the same location. We go to this one. And the last hole over here in the corner. And I think I'm finished. Yeah. Let me put the all aside. I'll move my weight,
and carefully, I'm going to lift
the book and take it out so it would hover. And then the needle work would be much more
comfortable for me. I'll put the weight so it won't move and take
the template out. I'll bring my thread
and cut 5.5 times four, 5.5 times the length. If you're working
with a thicker book, maybe take a bit extra. I'll thread the needle. Now I'm going to add my trick 3
centimeters from the edge. I'm going to take the needle and insert the needle inside
the middle of the thread. I'm holding the
needle and pulling back the thread and Tam
and it's connected. Okay, we are going to start in the second hole
from the bottom up. I'm going to leave a tail of around four or 5 centimeters. I'm going to repeat
the same process. And now look what happened. When I'm pulling, it holds
the beginning of the thread, and then you can pull
and work with it. Let me go to the third hole on the four hole binding line. Now I'm going around the spine and back
inside the same hole. Pulling. Now, I'm going to
insert from the bottom up on the edge here around the spine and back
inside the same hole. Now I'm going around the head of the book and back inside. Moving on to the noble binding
hole here at the corner. So I'm going inside
around the spine and back inside and around the head of the book and back inside. And back to the main hole on
the four hole binding line. Great. Moving on to
the upper hole here, third hole, and now to
the hole where we began. Moving on to the last hole or the first hole and back inside. Around the foot of the book and back
inside the same hole. Pulling. Now, from the
bottom up at the edge here, the small noble binding
stitch here back inside, and around the foot again
and inside the same hole. Okay, we finished this side. Now we are going to
the hole up here, back to the main hole, pulling. Now don't get confused. We are going inside the
first hole where we began. I'm going inside. And then I'm going back
to the center hole, going around the spine and
back into the same hole. Going to the right and look how the ham leaf is famingG back to the same hole in the center, and then I'm going
back to the beginning. Great. Now I'm going
to the center hole here around the
spine, back inside. Going left to the main hole, going to the center hole
here around the spine, back inside the same hole. Going inside the
hole at the corner. And now I'm filling in, so I'm going inside this hole. And down here, there's nothing. I'm going to the main
four hole binding hole. And now I'm in the last hole. What I'm going to do is
move the weight aside, flip over the binding. I'm going to release
the beginning here. And now I want to tie a knot, but I don't want
the thread to move. So I'm going to take
an anchor here. And then tie a double knot, so once and twice. I'll bring my scissors and cut around 1
centimeter from the edge. Now I'll take my all
and I'm going to insert the remaining thread
inside the hole and then nobody will know where we
started and finish the binding. So this procedure takes a bit of time and everything
is concealed inside. I can fix a bit
of the leaves and the thread with my looks great. And look how amazing the design is of the
hemp lift binding. As I said, I'm making
two more videos about the noble binding and the
tortoise shell binding. So make sure to
watch those classes. Also, please share with us
your project and your binding. I would love to see
it, and I promise to give feedback to each and
every submitted work. You just upload it to the class projects and
I would see it there. So, as always, thank you for
being here and for watching, and I will see you
in my next class.
Ido Agassi, Book Artist
