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Ep. 320: Building Days

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2025/11/01

BookbindingThis was a daily building challenge where you were allowed to build anything you wanted for one month (one of the longest months: October, with 31 days). I, naturally, made mostly books. In fact, I believe I made 22 books. I first ran across Building Days watching Evan Monsma’s YouTube channel at Evan Monsma where he said that October, for him, was a challenge he gave himself to build something every day. I took up the challenge and, except for three days when I had a

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Ep. 319: Exploring Amazon & Carving out Reincarnation

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2025/10/15

BookbindingI purchased three books from Amazon. Two arrived in a timely manner: Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, which deals with memories and remembering; and Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto, which deals with both sibling rivalry, obnoxious and entitled people, and forgetting and possibly forgiveness, but I was intrigued by the envelope my Amazon horde arrived in: corrugated cardboard, which was plain on one side and festooned with a variety of QR codes on the other; probably my name, address, the

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Ep. 318: I Wove a Book and Russian Reincarnation

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2025/10/05

BookbindingYou might be happy to know that you have two books to check out this week. Two books of varying quality and ingenuity (or semi-inventiveness), but both useful (hopefully to you). First, the complete Woven Kanazawa with Useful (?) Japanese Phrases. About 100 pages with the phrases you can use throughout the Japanese-speaking world. Last week I showed you the incomplete cover. This week: The complete book! An exposed spine, link stitching, muted endpapers, but a cover made of cut-up

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Ep. 317: Weaving Molly Bright

手取川製本 ~ Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2025/09/17

BookbindingI created three covers for two as-yet unplanned books. All three are woven. The idea of the woven book cover came when I was cleaning out my stockpile of To Be Used in the Future material aka junk pile. About 15 years ago a friend abandoned Japan and gave me a ton of manila files. He kept teaching material in them. Everything from a very general Environment to a more specific Canadian holiday activities. I have used a few, maybe two, of these files as book boards. They are lightweight,

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Ep. 316: Casing in Kenrokuen Souvenir

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2025/08/31

BookbindingI cased in two books in the last week. One, The Kenrokuen Souvenir Notebook, is an A6 (pocketbook-size) mostly blank notebook. The recto pages (right side) contain really short Japanese lessons; translations of useful (?) words you might need while being a non-Japanese tourist in Kanazawa. The verso pages (left side) are lined for your writing pleasure. A video of the pages being printed and folded is available here. A video of Kenrokuen Souvenir Notebook being cased in will appear

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Ep. 315: Unfinished/Complete

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2025/08/15

BookbindingAbout two months ago, probably longer, I folded two sets of A5 sheets of paper in order to make two A6 notebooks (blank). Those signatures sat on my workbench for those months, unfinished. I took a short trip to another part of Japan, visited friends, recharged my passion for living, and came back to Kanazawa (in a heavy rainstorm. I actually left Kanazawa in a heavy rainstorm, too.) After a couple of days relaxing from my not-necessarily relaxing vacation, I started to work on those

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Ep. 314: The Complete Saigawa Exploration Committee...

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2025/07/18

BookbindingThis week in bookbinding, I made an A6-size blank notebook with a relatively unique cover. First, the book is six signatures with four folios each. It’s called The Complete Saigawa Exploration Committee Notebook. In both Japanese (犀川探検委員会全集) and, of course, English for you non-Japanese speakers/readers. The Saigawa is one of two big rivers that flow through Kanazawa (the other being the Asano river, meaning shallow river.) But the point of this book is the

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Ep. 313: Books, Novels, Weeding Oh My!

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2025/07/07

BookbindingThis is the first book I’ve bound in a couple of three-four months; maybe more. It’s A5, five signatures of five folios each. It is unique in that it has two endpapers on the front and back. The second endpaper is not glued to the cover but it looks nice. When I first made this book (I made it twice), the thread got caught on the cover but I didn’t notice it until I was finished. I wondered why the stitching on the cover was loose until I opened the book and found a large thread

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Ep. 312: Terminal Patient and Moving Forward

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2025/06/01

LifeI have told you in the past that I had a relative who had a terminal disease and that I was taking care of her. That relative has died. That relative was my wife. We met when she was 23, and she passed away at 63. She passed away in May of this year. We were married for 31 years, but had a lively and romantic life together for almost 40 years. Fortunately, we also had two wonderful children who took care of me for the last month. I have a lot of memories (good and bad) to work through. And a

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Ep. 311; Solaris Libri and Agnes Grout

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2025/05/01

BookbindingThis week or last, can’t remember, I made a sunny yellow book called Solaris Libri. The original name was the Sun Book, to go along with the Snowbank Book and the Earth Book, but decided to jazz I it up a little bit by throwing in Google’s Latin translation for Sun Book. The idea was I would make the book and then put it in the sun. Originally, I would just drop it in the garden and let nature take its course. But that meant it wouldn’t be the Sun book but the weather book. So I taped

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Ep 310: How Big a Hinge Gap/Spine Piece?

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2025/04/15

BookbindingI did something I should have done when I first started making books, but was too naive (dumb?) to do. I recommend new bookbinders do this activity. I made three A6-sized blank notebooks with five signatures of five folios each for a total of 100 pages. They were made with two different hinge gaps and three different spine pieces. This was a mistake. They should have been made with three different hinge gaps instead of two. Why did I make three books like this? Again, just to see how

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Ep 309: The Results of The Earth Book

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2025/03/30

BookbindingIn the last week, I have made four or five books of varying skill levels. Mostly, I made three books to test out various hinge gap spacing. Some people recommend one size, others another size. I will talk about those books in a future Tedorigawa Bookmakers podcast, so be sure to subscribe to hear that one. Also on a future podcast will be Solaris Libri (The Sun Book) that will be left out in the sun, the moon, and the stars (plus weather) for a month (30 days). I’m currently making this

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Ep 308: What Will the Earth Do?

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2025/03/15

BookbindingIn Episode 306, I showed you a French Link Stitch I made in January of this year. Well, this week I cased it in with book cloth I made last year and chiyogami Japanese endpapers. It’s still seven signatures of five folios each for about 140 pages, but now it’s enclosed in a nice cover. After casing in that book, creatively called Notebook January 2025, I made a similar book with a different name: Earth Book. I’ll talk more about Earth Book in the video section. It is five signatures of

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Ep. 307: Short. Why?

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2025/03/01

BookbindingTwo things happened last week. First, a family member fell sick. Second, I fell under the spell of norovirus, the stomach bug. Third, the family member physically fell and needed to be taken to the hospital; in the middle of the night. All of us are resting well. Needless to say, making a book was not my top priority. But, having said that, to relax, I made a small B7 not-blank notebook with five signatures of four folios each. Not-blank because the paper was leftover school handouts

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Ep. 306: Three Books, More Agnes

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2025/02/15

BookbindingOver the past few weeks, I’ve been binding quite a bit; not crazily, but more than usual. I made three A6 (pocketbook)-sized blank notebooks with between 140 and 160 pages. I’ve used kettle stitches and French link stitches; mostly to practice the French link stitch which I think looks nice on an open spine (similar to the Coptic stitch) but is more inspiring? creative inducing? artistic? Maybe all three at the same time. Let me know which you prefer when sewing a few signatures

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Ep. 305: French Link Stitch & Agnes

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2025/01/31

BookbindingIn January 2025, I made my second attempt at a French link stitch on a 160-page, A6-size blank notebook called, appropriately enough, The 2025 Blank 160-page French Link Stitch Notebook. It has eight signatures of five folios each for a total of 160 pages; the title page and the Tedorigawa logo use two of the pages. The other 158 pages are blank. I used an interesting scrap of paper I found in my To Be Used Later pile. I glued this scrap to a thin upcycled envelope to make the front

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Ep. 304: Graphic-AI-Coptic: Nun or Gramma?

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2025/01/13

BookbindingPlaying around with DaVinci and Gemini I requested a nun with a smirk on her face in an abandoned village. And got this lady with an uncharacteristic moon hovering above her head, a detail a living artist would not have included. I turned her into a 50-page, A5-ish notebook. The recto page is 10x10mm graph paper. Verso is lined. I used Coptic binding with green thread. The cover has three or four papers from my To Use bin under my workbench. As you can see the cover includes: 1. A very

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Ep. 303: Three 303 Blank Notebooks

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2024/12/14

BookbindingI delved into prefect binding – the binding that uses glue instead of thread to keep the signatures together; the style of binding most common in ordinary store-bought, factory-produced books that sometimes results in pages falling to the floor on the 787 flying to London, if you were so lucky as to be heading to Europe while re-reading Gravity’s Rainbow. Or your classroom floor. I made three blank notebooks using the perfect binding. They are all in the landscape orientation to make it

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Ep. 302: Blank Proust

手取川製本 ~ Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

2024/11/30

BookbindingThis week, we have a notebook called Blank Proust. I made it because I wanted to make a blank notebook with an interesting cover. Simultaneously, I’m reading Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. (I’m at the beginning of book three: The Guermantes Way). Combining the two, I landed on Blank Proust, if memory serves. This A6-sized Coptic-bound notebook has nine signatures of five folios for a total of 180 pages. All but two are blank. One has the title: Blank Proust with a snapshot of

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Ep. 301: Blank Reds & Editing

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2024/11/16

BookbindingToday we have two blank red notebooks. Both are A5 (pocketbook) in size, about 100 pages each, and with stylish endpapers. Useful for sketching, scheduling, taking notes, or practicing ransom notes or whatever you wish to do with it. Book one is entirely blank. Not even a Tedorigawa Bookmakers logo on the penultimate page. No page numbers, no title page. Freedom! It does have a bookmark to assist you in finding a page you find important. The bookmark is brown-purple (mostly brown) to

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