SteveH

I purchased scans of this book to begin tailoring Victorian clothes for our shows.

I did so reformatting, printed it booklet double-sided

Then followed an "Instructables" on home book binding, worked like a charm!

This was meant to be a learning practice piece, so I did not remove the BS copyright info from the seller.

My next copy will be better.

BTW I used our 241-12 to sew each of the seven 8 page sections down the center. They went through like butter...

Then wood glue and fabric.

The cover is a card stock covered in fabric, the inner plates are an art paper from JoAnns's

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Sheluma

Great! I love vintage sewing books and I've always wanted to learn book binding. I'm gonna check out the Instructables. I like the color of the fabric you chose.

girliegirl

ahhhh victorian!! oh my style.

liking quilting

Super project!

lovelyl

As a former librarian, I think binding your own book is totally cool!

SteveH

It was so fun, that I am (I know I know another project?) retyping the original document and going to make a clean copy and then bind a couple of those. I figured out a font and spacing that is resulting in exactly the same word breaks.... hehe dang ADHD.....

I tried to do OCR (Optical Character Recognition) of the original scans, but even with a serious cleanup pass first it could not get more than 5-10% correct

$100 for a USED copy of the 1986 REPRINT is just not in my DNA...

girliegirl

awesome! great job...