Quick Binding Tutorial - Japanese Noble Binding

1. Introduction : Hello, and welcome to my studio. My name is Ido Gasi. And today, I want to show you how to make this beautiful, noble binding. It is also called a Koki Toji I hope I'm pronouncing it right. And the binding is quite similar to the four hole traditional binding with two extra holes between the stitching line and the two corners. And what's great about this binding technique is that it gives strength on the top and bottom of this binding. This video is part of three videos I'm going to make and I want to share with you about three different Japanese binding techniques. 2. What You Need For This Class: I'm going to start this video with the bookblog already bound and the cloth covers already made. To get to this stage, you need to prepare your paper in the order you want them to be Make sure to leave enough margins when you are opening the book. I leave around 1.5 centimeters. And then what I recommend you to do is make an inner binding to hold all the book block together, and it would make your life much easier while sewing the outside. About the covers, you can use paper covers. This is very common, or you can make cloth covers with a creasing to help you open book. If you want to learn how to get to this stage, I have a class dedicated to the Japanese binding technique, and I'm showing the whole process of making the book block, making the inner binding, which I really recommend you to do. And I also teach how to make the cloth covers. 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. So are you ready? Let's start working. 3. Sewing Tutorial: Hello, and thank you for joining me in this short class. For sewing the book, we would need very basic tools. We would need an all. We will need a needle. Scissors and thread. I'm using linen thread, but you can also use cotton thread or synthetic thread. If you are using synthetic thread, I recommend that you will fuse the edges before working. So let me put this aside and bring two wood blocks to help me pierce the holes for sewing. Okay? I'm using these not to damage my cutting mat or for you to damage your table. You can use the wood blocks. You can also use a pile of bookbinding boards or whatever you find in your house just not to ruin your surface. So I will start by bringing the front and back cover. This is the back cover. On it, I would locate the bookblock, see everything is straight. And on that, the front cover. I'll bring a piece of weight to see everything is straight. Don't move. Everything is straight here. And I'm going to take my template. The template gives me all the holes and the location of the holes. So what I would do is add a PDFle in our class resources. You can go there and download the file print it, and then you can work with me. I'm going to make it in the size in a five and in half letter. So let me bring my hole, hold it in the palm of my hand, go to the first hole, lift my arm, okay? I want to be an extension of theol. I'm holding the entire book and then pressing down and with the twisting movement going inside, holding my fingernail, and when I'm going out, I can see I'm gone enough inside the book. Let's go to the second hole on the four hole line, pressing down fingernail to see, it's enough. Let's go to the third hole. Great. And the last one, the fourth hole. I'm in. Yes. Now I'm going to the two holes of the noble binding. Make this one. You see the twisting movement and my arm is parallel to the. And let's go to this corner, pressing down with my whole body and inserting the all. Let's see. That's enough. Now what I'm going to do is move the weight and take the entire book, make sure it's not moving too much, and I'm going to slide it that it would hover, so it would make my life much easier to find the holes. Look, that I'm working at the edge of the table, and that's why I can maneuver my needle without the problem of lifting the book. Let me prepare the thread. I want to make four times the length of the book, so one, two, three, and four. If you have a very thick book, maybe take five times I'll cut the thread. This is linen thread. It's very strong and durable. Okay? But you can also use cotton thread and synthetic thread that you can fuse the edges. Let me bring a needle and I'll thread the needle. I'll add my trick. Let me pull the thread back and it's connected. Now, I'm going to start in the second hole from the bottom side up. And what I'm doing is holding the edge of the thread, and then I'm repeating the process going back inside again. And when I'm pulling, this will hold the beginning of the thread. This is a very nice trick, okay? Pulling and going left, going left, inside the next hole, from the top down to the bottom, around the spine and inside the same hole. Okay? So now the spine is closed. I'm moving on to the third hole on the corner here. I'm going from bottom to the top. Around the spine and back inside. Now I'm going around the top side and back inside the same hole. All of this is the same as in the four hole binding. Now this is where it changes. We are going inside the hole of the top side. Over the spine back inside. And now over the top and back inside the same hole. Going back up to the line of the four hole binding. See that I'm trying not to move the book so the holes won't shift and move. Now I'm on the upper side. I'm going back down going back to where we started second hole from the bottom up to the first hole or the last hole around the spine and back inside. Around the foot of the book. I'm making the thread tight all the time, holding it and pulling it. Now I'm going inside the noble binding corner. So this is halfway between the stitch line and the spine, around the spine and back inside the small hole, pulling the thread and around the foot again and back inside the same hole. Now I'm going inside the four hole binding line. Okay? Now, you need to pay attention, not to go back from the bottom up. What I'm doing, I'm moving the weight, flipping the book over this is the beginning. I'm pulling it so it get loose. And now what I'm going to do is make a double knot here. But because I don't want the knot to move, what I'm going to do is take my needle and go under the beginning to make an anchor for the knot, not to move. Okay? So I made a anchor, and now I'm going to do a simple knot twice. So this is once. And this is twice. I'm going to take my scissors and cut around 1 centimeter from the edge. And now I'm going to take my hole and insert the remaining thread inside the hole so no one will know where we started and finished our binding. So this takes a bit of time. You just insert inside the hole And it is hidden and nobody will know where the beginning and end is. Look how amazing the noble binding or cocky tji so as I said, I'm going to make two more videos about the hemp leaf binding and about the torts shell binding. So make sure to watch those classes. Also, I would love to see your end result and your bindings. So please share it with us in the class projects. I promise to see each and every submitted work, answer questions if you have any, and also give feedback. So, as always, thank you for being here and for watching, and I will see you in my next class.