Coptic Binding is a fabulous technique for creating your own sketchbook, journal or storybook. You can use either fine, archival materials or recycled materials such as file folders and corrugated cardboard.  You can create these all on your own or as a fun family project, putting together treasured memories of children’s art and writing.
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The double-needle technique that I teach in this class, in my mind, is far easier than the single-needle method.  Once you learn the basic stitch, you can improvise and let your imagination guide you to create fancier versions of the basic coptic stitch.
Not only will you learn the coptic stitch, you'll learn to fold paper with the grain, tear paper for beautiful edges, create signatures, cut covers, wax thread and tap into your creativity to find solutions for errors made along the way.
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This is one of the courses in my series of DIY Sketchbooks and Illustrated Journals that teaches you how to create books by folding, stitching, glueing, weaving … or a combination of those techniques.

Introduction

About Paper

Materials for Coptic Binding

Tearing Paper 

Cutting Front and Back Covers

Punching Holes in Signatures and Covers

Hand-held Hole Punching Technique

Needles and Threads

Coptic Binding - First Set of Stitches

Coptic Binding - Second Set of Stitches

Summary and Conclusion

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