{"id":15364,"date":"2013-02-10T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2013\/02\/10\/new-sketchbook-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:13","slug":"new-sketchbook-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2013\/02\/10\/new-sketchbook-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New sketchbook"},"content":{"rendered":"
While waiting for my folks to come online yesterday for our weekly chat, I finished the new sketchbook I’ve been working on:<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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For the first time, I used book cloth I made myself! I’d always had to buy it when I was in Canada or elsewhere, and since it comes in a roll and has crinkle-able paper backing, it usually got a little wrecked in transit. But plain cloth doesn’t work (I discovered) because if you try to fix plain cloth to a book block, the glue oozes through (which looks gross) and doesn’t bind strongly enough with itself to hold on.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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I recently found this video<\/a>, which shows how to give any cloth a paper backing using an iron-on fixative called Heat’n’Bond. So I ordered some on eBay (the local sewing shop hadn’t heard of it), tried it out yesterday, and it worked!<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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I used some light paper””almost crêpe paper””that a gift came wrapped in, which was the right weight, except it was a bit too wrinkly (and stayed so when it came in contact with the glue, despite being ironed). The fabric could be lighter, too, but at least it’ll be durable!<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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Now I just hope the paper inside will be good to draw on. I rescued it from a sketchbook I found in my junk boxes under my parents’ eaves, so it must be about twenty years old. Craig liked the end result and said I should sell it, but this year I’m more interested in creating than selling.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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EDIT: Drat! The paper in this book feels lush, but I tested out my pens on a spare sheet and it’s just not right for the drawing work I want to do in my sketchbook.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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Oh well, I found another drawing pad, and this time I tested the paper first, so here’s my excuse for binding another book. Perhaps I’ll sell the other one after all…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While waiting for my folks to come online yesterday for our weekly chat, I finished the new sketchbook I’ve been working on: For the first time, I used book cloth I made myself! I’d always had to buy it when I was in Canada or elsewhere, and since it comes in a roll and has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}