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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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