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手取川製本 ~ Tedorigawa Bookmakers

Tedorigawa Bookmakers

Creating Handmade Books and Writing Fiction in Kanazawa, Japan 金沢市

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Ep. 300: Barf Bag Book

手取川製本 ~ Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2024/11/02

BookbindingI took a plane flight the other month. As soon as I saw the vomit bag (waterproof disposal bag, according to the airline) I thought: Book Cover! As one does when one makes books. On the same flight, I was given three pieces of paper to prove my existence on the flight: a yellow flimsy paper with my flight gate, seat, destination, etc; a formal boarding pass with the same info; and a pink paper with, yet again, the same information. And I, of course, again, immediately, thought: Book

05:51

Ep. 299: I Did It Again

手取川製本 ~ Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2024/06/28

BookbindingNot much in the way of bookbinding this week, but I have an excuse: heat and laziness on my part. I did, however, purchase several tenugui that I will eventually turn into book covers. The latest (and second overall) book cloth I made came out very wrinkled. I attempted to iron it flat but I should've ironed it flat Before I added copious amounts of glue and backing (shoji paper, in my case.) Fiction Fiction‽ What can I say about fiction? I’ll tell you what I can say about Fiction

07:46

Ep. 298: Tenugui & Gangsters of Love

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2024/05/25

BookbindingWe (meaning I, i.e. the royal We), made an A6-sized (pocket book) Coptic-bound, blank notebook with seven signatures of four folios for about 112 pages. Pages are numbered for easy reference. Unremarkable really as I’ve made a few of these bunkobon (文庫本) books in the past. So, what makes this edition warrant special mention? First, 文庫本 is an A6 size book equivalent to what Americans refer to as a pocket book (but not a pocketbook which is an accessory for holding cash and credit cards)

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Ep. 297: Balloon Books & A Reincarnation

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2024/05/10

Bookbinding We finished the renovation of a client’s well-used travel book. It got a new map, a new cover, and new endpapers. The client also requested a blank notebook so I sent two blank notebooks. Knowing that one book was going to an artist, I sent a coptic-bound book because coptic-bound books open flat and are much more useful for drawing and sketching than case-bound books. Case-bound books are your usual hardcover books. Secondly, I finished a creative outlet book that had two purposes. One,

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Ep. 296: Yellow & Red Blank Notebooks+

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2024/04/15

BookbindingWe found ourselves finishing up two blank notebooks this week. One yellow and one mostly red with a slightly floral motif. The Yellow One has a title on the front cover: Dibujo & Kaku (the Kaku being, in Japanese, 描く. Both carrying the meaning of Draw or Drawing. On the inside title page of the yellow one is a sketch of the front of a steam train, an umbrella, a cloud, and rain. The word Train is over the umbrella. T/Rain was the idea. There are 105 numbered pages in Dibujo/描く

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Ep. 295: Conserving & Creating

手取川製本 ~ Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2024/03/31

BookbindingA client sent me a book that needed to be rebuilt, repaired, and improved. I need to fix the covers, the spine, and a map is glued to the back cover. Because I have to fix the covers I was thinking of updating the map, too. This is an exciting proposition because I have to investigate maps! Also, the client wants a soft cover so he can cram it in his book bag without fear. Fiction I finished Molly Bright! I have included sub-plots concerning Molly (trouble with her boss), Merengue

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Ep. 294: A Yellow A5 Blank Book &

手取川製本 ~ Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2024/03/15

BookbindingIn the last few days or weeks, I’ve created an A5 Blank Notebook with page numbers on slightly yellow paper with a bright yellow cover (red threads, though), and red headbands with a dark red (maroon?) bookmark for your viewing and using pleasure. This monstrosity has nine (9) signatures of four folios each for a grand total of 144 pages. It also has a William Morris-influenced pair of endpapers that set off the yellow of the covers quite nicely, I believe. You are more than allowed to

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Ep. 293:Two Sketch/Doodle/Note Books

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2024/02/29

BookbindingIn my New Year’s Resolution (NYsR©) to podcast more frequently, I require more content. This is good for you the listener/readers. Thank you. For this episode, I made two A6 blank notebooks which you can use for sketching or doodling during Zoom meetings or, and more importantly, taking notes during real face-to-face meetings with other real flesh-and-blood humans. The first notebook is 112 pages in 7 signatures. It also has page numbers for ease of referencing and finding your

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Ep. 292: Late Yet Again but Happy

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2024/02/14

Bookbinding In mid-December a client made a request for a 2024 schedule to be ready soon. By soon, I think they meant before January 2024, which, as you know, zoomed by quite quickly. I told them that was impossible because I was taking a short break for New Year’s and subsequent joys and regrets about failed New Year’s Resolutions. However, I finished it and shipped it off. The client was disappointed that it came so late but not with the final product itself. I warned them it would be late. I

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Ep. 291: Yearly Schedule Scheduled Late

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2024/01/31

Bookbinding The second book of 2024 (maybe I’ll stop numbering them. Maybe.) is a 2024 Schedule delivered to the client halfway through January of 2024; a bit late. But not as late as the next one. It’s an A4-sized schedule perfectly bound (a style that uses a lot of glue, not that I bound it perfectly) of 16 pages (two for each month and some endpapers). The cover is of a textured paper I acquired years ago plus two parallel red lines of the same type of paper indicating the front. The client

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Ep. 290: Coptic Bound & Unfinished Novel(s)

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2024/01/20

Bookmaking The first book of the year 2024 is a B6-sized coptic-bound 100-page blank notebook with a nice endpaper, red paper cover, and a cup of cocoa which I thought was coffee, but it came off of a bag of cookies from Miyazaki (Miyazac). I can’t believe I started it last year. It’s been sitting on my workbench for at least two months. I finally finished it as part of my New Year’s Resolution(s)tm Speaking of NYR(s)tm, one of them is to read more real books. I’m currently plowing through Joyce’s

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Ep. 289: Cardboard & How I Start a Novel

手取川製本 ~ Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2023/11/09

Bookbinding I discovered cardboard. Not originally, but in my stack of leftovers and the myriad boxes that my local grocery store piles up after receiving shipments of everything from drinks to bananas. More importantly, I’ve started to use them in my bookbinding. Yea! Free supplies! Last month I made two French link stitch blank notebooks wherein I used cardboard strips to strength the covers. The covers are usually paper folded over to match the size of the book. Flexible but not suitable for what

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Ep. 288: Fast Change

手取川製本 ~ Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2023/10/09

Bookbinding My first year in Japan I was surprised at how fast the seasons changed. One day it’s summer and Boom! the next day it’s fall with a drastic fall (pun?) in temperature. Over the decades I’ve gotten used to it. But this year of record high temperatures? September 30 it was about 33˚ (96˚) with humidity in the high 50s. October 2? About 20˚ (68˚) with the humidity in the mid-50s. Which meant working in my work space was tolerable. And I got two books cased in. The first book, an A6

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Ep. 287: Hot

手取川製本 ~ Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2023/09/09

Bookbinding Nado. Nothing. Zip. Why? A perfectly good reason why. My bookbinding studio doesn’t have air conditioning and like most of the planet, Kanazawa is hot. Hotter than some other places but cooler than a few (like Texas, which is on fire). Rather than sit and sweat a bucket load in the first five or six minutes – which would dampen the paper and make it ew ugly with sweat stains — I’ve turned to reading and writing more. In an air conditioned room in my house or the local

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Ep. 286: My Year of Drinking Kanazawa

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2023/08/15

Bookbinding Having finished My Year of Drinking Kanazawa I cased it in. Without a few mistakes and some successes. First, the spine is too large by a half a millimeter. Second, the space between the spine and the front and back covers is too small. It is 3mm when it should be about 5mm. While the book opens adequately it is not sincere like a book of short stories should be; it is mocking us. I like the black cover and the white band toward the bottom that announces, on the front, the title. There’s

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Ep. 285 Small Books and Writing

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2023/08/05

Bookbinding I made a small book as practice in making small books. It’s about 75 pages and measures 100 mm x 75 mm which, for our Imperial users, is about 3.9 inches x 2.9 (3 15/16 by 2 61/64) inches. The cover is wrapped in red paper but there’s a chiyogami stripe down the front cover that doesn’t spread itself to the back cover. It has a bookmark so if you’ve lost your page, you can find it. It’s blank so you can use it for whatever purposes you choose. It’s also smaller than the palm of my hand

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Ep. 284: June Blank Journal Soul of September

手取川製本 ~ Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2023/07/11

Bookbinding This week you have an A6 pocketbook blank journal, similar to the other A6 pocketbook blank journals I have been making but with the addition of two pages With Print! The first page has the title of the book: Tedorigawa Bookmakers and the date: June 2023. The final page has the Tedorigawa Bookmakers logo. That’s it. The other pages, as you can probably guess from the title are blank. The front is mostly green book cloth with two chiyogami-esque strips plus a red stripe that surrounds

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Ep. 283: Two A6 Notebooks

手取川製本 ~ Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2023/06/17

Bookbinding First, the new music for our intros and outros. It’s called Who’s Using Who by the Mini-Vandals and downloaded from YouTube Music. Last week I wrote it was probably downloaded from Pixabay. I was wrong; it’s from YouTube. Here we have two blank notebooks who are the same only in size. A6 and 100 pages. the covers vary dramatically with one multi-colored and the other veering toward the monotone side of the color wheel. The first, on the Front: the Matsushima (松島) one is coptic-bound with

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Ep. 282: Four Notebooks And Finished Fiction!

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2023/06/10

NewMusic: Who’s Using Who by the Mini Vandals (probably found on Pixabay Music) Bookbinding In the last weeks or so four A5-sized blank notebooks were created. They were created using scraps I had left over from other projects in a failed attempt at reducing leftovers and scraps. Making books and covers creates more leftovers for future use. Sometimes. They are all 100 pages and Coptic bound for two reasons. First, Coptic binding requires a lot less glue and I was, for some odd reason, trying to

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Ep. 281: How Many Mistakes Can I Make?

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2023/06/02

Bookbinding How many mistakes can I make on one blank A6 notebook with 200 pages bound with perfect binding and still get a book I’m relatively pleased with? The short answer is: Lots! • First and minor mistake: I counted 200 pages. I mistakenly assumed the book would have 200 pages. But I only counted sheets, not sides so it actually has 400! pages. Gads. • Second visible mistake: The front book board and the back book board are not the same size. Off by a millimeter or two or half. But I can see

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