The Book of Drawings: Binding

For my final book I decided I would print my images onto cartridge paper because it is good quality therefore making a book with it will make it very durable. I had a few problems printing at first but after a few practice tries I got there in the end. I printed my images off back to back so that they folded nicely in order and so I was only using a limited amount of pages. I put the 3 sheets together and held them in place with some bulldog clips so they didn't move and used a needle to pierce five holes into the crease of the pages. I got some white cotton and used a saddle stitch to stitch the pages together. I really like the outcome of this binding and I think it will look really good when the cover is added.
Here are some images of how the binding turned out. I also converted the images in photoshop to greyscale because some of the grey tones I used in my drawings had a purple/blue tinge to them and I didn't like how it looked.

The Book of Drawings: Binding Test

I found a video on youtube on how you bind a book using something called a saddle stitch and I really wanted to try this because it looked like a really simple and neat way of binding with a professional looking finish. 

When I tried printing my final images to make my book I had a few printing problems so I used the images that weren't successful to trial this technique. These images show my results.

This is the spine of the test book and I think that the thread looks very neat and the excess can be hidden when the cover is added.

This is the inside the first page of the book. I really like how this looks because you can barely see the stitching and I think it looks really professional.

This is the centre of the book which was my main concern in case the thread looked messy but I was surprised when it looked very tidy. I also think that using white thread was a good choice because you can barely see it against the paper. I definitely think I am going to use this binding technique as I think it is very effective.