Mint Sauce – Coptic-Bound

After completing my latest bookbinding course at Edinburgh Contemporary Crafts I felt able to attempt the ‘holy grail’ of bookbinding – Coptic Stitch by myself. I wanted to make a unique & meaningful Christmas present for my partner. He is a big fan of Mint Sauce – the mountain-biking sheep from MBUK magazine. Sadly Mint is no longer in the magazine, but he has a huge stash of Mint cartoons from old magazines. I picked 2 suitable ones for the front & back covers (having first scanned them & replaced the scanned copies back in his stash).

I covered boards with the cartoons & edged one side & the corners with buckram. I set alternate blue & green eyelets along the buckram edge. I lined each signature with alternate blue or green paper for contrast. Sewing on the final signature & cover is still a bit tricky. It is slightly easier to sew the final signature & then the cover separately but this means a double row of sewing on the last signature, which can look messy, but then again so can a single row if it is not sewn on straight.

Front view

Front view

Open view of signatures

Open view of signatures

Spine

Spine

Spine detail

Spine detail

back cover

back cover

 

 

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