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Old 14th April 2022, 04:58 PM
GaryJarvis GaryJarvis is offline
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Default Home made photo album

I have managed to acquire a small collection of 6x4 proof prints (on 7x5 paper) of my street photography which have been left to rest in an old Ilford paper box. I normally use these to scan for Instagram.

It occurred to me that it would be good to make some of these more accessible, so I set about making my own photo album.

I wondered whether fellow darkroom enthusiasts would be interested in my endeavour.

I made the album from black A3 acid free paper (250gsm) which I folded and cut to form roughly A5 landscape format pages.

There are 8 pages per signature and 7 signatures resulting in a book block of 56 pages. I hand stitched the signatures to form the basic book block. I then made a case from greyboard and covered with bookcloth. This was then glued to the book block via the red end papers.

There are some other components such as spine lining / spine stiffener, mull and the endbands.

In order to accommodate the thickness of my photos the album had to be thinned (called guarding). Essentially I had to cut every other page out leaving a 10mm tab in place (only slightly heartbreaking).

So now complete the album takes a total of 28 photos.

I was actually surprised how well this turned out as its the first time I've ever attempted any sort of bookbinding.

There are issues, but none that that make me wish I hadn't bothered, I may try a version 2 and try and improve now I have some experience.

The only thing I haven't attempted is ploughing the edges which requires a book plough (and money!), but I'm not too bothered by the ragged fore and bottom edge.

If I've whet your appetite for your own self creations, the two key references I used for this are linked here:

Shepherds Bookbinders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHjwofHql68

Sage Reynolds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9PvRSnGUCo&t=769s

Pictures attached. Hope this is useful.
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