How to Perfect Bind a Book

This video tutorial would have made life so much easier a few years back when I was in design school. Every time I have tried to make a perfect bound book, the pages always fell out or I was stuck with a gooey mess that warped when dried. Judy makes it seem so simple.

Check out Judy Lee's shop. She makes perfect bound journals/sketchbooks that feature photography and illustrations as covers and have an inner pocket for loose papers. I love that she makes them out of sugarcane, recycled paper, and random scraps of paper.

Thank you, Judy!

More bookbinding tutorials:
*a detailed overview of how to make a casebound book
*Dave's casebound book tutorial
*make a zine that only uses one sheet of paper and a video of this technique
*Japanese stab binding tutorial
*pdf directions to make an accordion book, rubberband journal, and more
*make your own moleskine-like-notebook
*gatefold card
*moleskine reloaded

*all of the books from this series are a great resource to have: