How to make a notebook with your hands from paper: what could be easier?

It's hard to find a notebook that would match all the wishes for color design, page decoration and cover art, so it's much easier to learn how to make a notebook yourself. Thanks to the master classes presented in this article, you can understand how to make a notebook yourself, and see possible options for decorating a notebook.

In order to understand all the stages of the process of making a notebook from the purchase of necessary materials before the cover design, it will not be out of place to familiarize yourself with the video. In the selection of the video presented below, needlewomen share experience and present author's versions of notebooks.

Step-by-step instruction for making a notebook of paper( photo below the text)

How to make a notebook of paper will be understandable, thanks to the master class. Needles need A4 paper, depending on the idea, you can use not only classic white sheets, but also colored sheets. Also, the work will need cardboard, clerical clips, trihedral file, thread with a needle, pieces of fabric, silicone sealant, glue and decor elements.

So, the process of making a notebook includes such steps:

1. First of all, you need to fold three to five sheets of A4 format together and bend it in half to make a notebook. How to make a notebook from the notebook will be clear after describing the following stages of work. Depending on what thickness of the notebook is planned, you need to make the necessary number of notebooks.
2. Then the resulting notebooks must be folded together and wrapped on both sides with cardboard and fastened on the cardboard clerical clips to compress the sheets. Under the press sheets should be at least three hours. After that, you need to remove the clips, tap the root against the hard surface, to make it level, then reinstall the spine with clerical clips.
3. Then, using a pencil and ruler, make a markup to cut six holes at an equal distance. Then you need to make holes for the file.
4. Next, you need to spread out the cloth on the working surface of the tape, put one of the notebooks on them and prepare a needle and thread. To sew a notebook it is necessary to stitch a single needle thread, it is not necessary to stitch the ribbons from the fabric, it is enough just to bend them from the outside. There is no need to break off the thread, because on the first notebook it is necessary to put a second notebook and continue to stitch it. When the final notebook is sewn, you need to make a few knots and fix the thread on the side, then wrap the edges again with cardboard and fasten the clips with the top and bottom.
5. In order for the notebook to open and close easily, the spine should be glued with sealant in such a way as to glue each leaf and fill every crack. After that, you need to fix as many clips as possible along the spine of the product.
6. While the notebook is under the press, it is possible to make fly-leaves of thick paper, which should be folded in half. Before you connect the booklets and the main part of the notebook, it is better to paste on this piece of paper kraft paper to make the product more durable.
7. At this stage, it is desirable to align the edges of the notebook, this can be done either with a knife or with a cutter.
8. To make a cover, you will need sheets of cardboard, which must be glued to the spine. Then everything depends on the idea, you can wrap the cover, for example, with a cloth.