Handmade leather cover. Do-it-yourself notebook cover made of paper, fabric or leather. Further work technology

who will share with you - how she makes a cover for her notebooks!

Hello! I will tell beginner needlewomen how to make a paperback,

to cover it with leather and how to reunite the page block and cover into a single whole.

I hope this MK will be useful for needlewomen with experience)

Let's start :)

1. You can make a notepad block yourself. But if you do not have enough experience in this matter or do not have time for this at all, then I advise buy READY BLOCK in the FANTASY store.

• In order to make a cover for our notebook, you need to measure the height, width and thickness of the block (in my case it is 21cm * 14.5cm * 3cm).
• Now it is necessary to add 0.5 cm to the height and width, and only 2-3 mm (0.2-0.3 cm) to the thickness. As a result, we must cut out 3 parts from cardboard:

The left side of the cover - 21.5*15cm;

Spine - 21.5*3.3cm

The right side is 21.5*15cm.

• We place our parts in parallel at a distance of 0.3-0.4 cm from each other and glue them together using strips of plain paper and glue.

2. Now you need to cut a piece of synthetic winterizer 1-2 cm larger on each side than our cover and sew it along the edge with a machine stitch. After the line is laid, you can cut off the excess synthetic winterizer exactly along the edge of the cardboard.

3. The faux leather piece should be 2-3 cm larger on each side than our prepared cover. We turn the skin face down, put the cover on top with the synthetic winterizer down and place it in the center of the skin. Spread the top of the cover with glue (3 cm from the edge). We bend and glue 2-3 cm of skin on the cover. Then we smear the lower part of the cover with glue and stretching a little (!) the skin, glue it to the cover.

• Now it is necessary to arrange the corners: we cut off the skin folded onto the cover along the cardboard almost to the end, not reaching 0.2 cm to the corner. We cut off the excess skin at an angle, preferably 45 degrees, leaving a small "tail" as in the photo. We glue the "tail" to the end of the cover - I use the "super moment GEL" (it does not flow and it is very convenient to work with it).

T Now smearing the end of the cover with super glue and bend the edges of the skin.

4. After the cover is completely covered with leather, it can be designed as you want or as you need)))

5. Cut out the endpapers exactly according to the size of the page block. As I wrote above - my block is 21cm * 14.5cm, so I cut out a rectangle 21 * 29cm and bend it in half - this will be our flyleaf, we need 2 of them. For endpapers, I advise you to take thick paper (!) - at least 180g / sq.m.

• The edge of the flyleaf, which will be adjacent to the block, is lubricated with glue (or other paste over with double-sided tape), the width of the adhesive strip is 1-1.5 cm - no more. Glue the flyleaf to the block. We also act with the 2nd flyleaf.

6. The roots of the blocks are always glued with gauze, so now we need to put it into action :) We put a sheet of ordinary office paper under the flyleaf (in order not to stain the block with glue) and completely coat the side of the flyleaf (which will be adjacent to the cover) with glue. The edges of the gauze, bend on the flyleaf and glue.

• Now we put the block into the cover so that the inner edge of the cover coincides with the edge of the spine of the block and glue the endpaper. We pay attention to the fact that the distance from the top and bottom (from the cover to the block) is the same.

• We do the same with another flyleaf - we put a sheet, grease it with glue, bend the gauze onto the flyleaf and coat it with glue too, then just close the cover. Let's dry. Notepad is ready :)

The colors were also chosen: ivory, ocher and brown shades. Polish paper set Wihte rose bought from the store FANTASY perfect for this order! The paper is very, very beautiful :) :) :)

So, let's learn how to sew notebooks?
Master class author: ole_look_ole

The author describes how she does it at home, for a person who for the first time decided to try to bind a book, a notebook at home from scratch. The text does not claim to be the ultimate truth, it's just personal experience.

Here we will talk about the manufacture of a notebook with a leather one-piece cover and book binding on ribbons.
Depending on the complexity of the idea, it can take from 3-5 hours to a couple of days to make a notebook, when some process requires drying, curing, etc.

The master class is divided into 4 parts:
Cover making
One-piece binding, binding of notebooks on two tapes
Slyzura and captal
Connecting the cover to the indoor unit

We will need: material for the cover - leather (fabric, paper - your choice), decorations and thick cardboard. The material for the indoor unit is paper according to your taste. Threads - sheets are sewn together with them. Two ribbons made of linen or any other fabric, a piece of gauze, a piece of paper, good glue (for example Moment), a cutter or an office knife, scissors.

I am making an A5 notepad (half of A4). I use natural black leather as a covering material. The cover is one-piece, that is, made from a single piece of leather. From thick cardboard (in our case, it is a dense, but quite flexible segregator), we make markings for covers for the cover of the size we need.

We immediately think over the size of the book, calculate the cardboard, fabric, etc. - everything should be enough. We bend the paper, form notebooks for stitching and put them under the press until the cover is being prepared, the paper has time to compress. We make markings on the covers of the notebook on cardboard.

Cut out (it is convenient for me to cut with a sharp stationery knife on a board under a metal ruler). We cut out the backlog, this is a strip of thick paper (with a round spine of a book block) or cardboard (with a straight spine), which is glued to the inside of the cover binding material between the sides of the binding cover in order to keep the shape of the spine in the finished book longer and protect it from abrasion and embossing or colorful imprint on the spine of the cover. We have a straight spine, so we cut out the backlog from cardboard.

Now we cut out a one-piece cover from the skin. It is necessary to take into account allowances for bends on each side, 2-2.5 cm is enough for the skin. And we take into account the indents for the lagging (the height of the lagging is equal to the height of the cardboard sides, and the width is equal to the length of the arc of the spine of the rounded block minus parting or the width of the straight spine minus parting.)

Separation - gap 3 (see the diagram below, where 1 is the cover binding material), the distance between the cardboard side 2 of the binding cover and the backlog 4, equal to approximately 5 mm with a round spine + the thickness of the cardboard for the sides, and with a straight one, another is added to this size the thickness of the backing board. Rastav largely determines the openness of a bound edition and its longevity.

In this notebook, on the front cover, I have conceived a three-dimensional frame. In order to make a relief pattern, it must first be cut out of a very dense material, cardboard, for example, you can lay out the relief with a dense round cord, wire, everything that holds its shape. Glue the cut blank to the cardboard on the front side. We are waiting for it to stick firmly and the glue to dry.

Glue the leather cover to the cardboard. We press the places with a relief pattern tightly with our fingers, the skin is very elastic and there are no problems with it, just for 5-10 minutes with our fingers we lay out the skin along the relief and press it, then I wrapped the relief with cardboard parts end-to-end in the shape of the relief and put it under the press so that everything was fixed properly . We bend the allowances of the skin along the edges and also glue them sequentially to the inside of the cover. We put it under the press so that everything is tightly grabbed. I glue the skin with glue Moment crystal. Your cover is ready to be connected to the book block.

We have an A5 notepad, for the indoor unit we take white A4 paper. We form notebooks, I took 6 sheets in each notebook, bend them in half and fold, that is, we fix the folds with a smooth object (bone). I do this with a sewing pen for lack of a bone. I got 11 notebooks with 6 sheets each. As a result, we will have 132 pages in the notebook. This stack of notebooks must be placed under the press so that the folds settle down.

I don’t make cuts, I make punctures) We take an awl, put, for example, several layers of corrugated cardboard so as not to puncture the work surface, and begin to pierce holes for stitching. For marking, so that the holes are all at the same distance, an A4 sheet folded in half, exactly the same size as the notebook, and I make the necessary holes in it.

In terms of the number of holes, it is perhaps important that they are symmetrical, and that, as a result of stitching, the block is securely and evenly fastened. Their number and the distance between them depends on the size of the notebook.
Here I pierced a hole from the upper and lower edges of the notebook so that the edges were tightly sewn, and in the center I pierce 4 holes at equal distances, the distance between the pairs is equal to the width of the tape, the braid on which we will sew the notebook. Putting this blank with holes into each notebook, we get the same holes in each, we follow carefully so that the displacement and skew of the blank in the notebook is minimal.

We take a gypsy needle and thread for stitching, there are three simple rules: the thread must be strong so as not to break during the sewing process or after using the notebook, it must be long enough not to knit knots in the process, it must stylistically fit the overall idea and design of your notebook. It can be waxed cord, acrylic thread, thread for jeans or shoes, any thick synthetic thread.

So, we thread the needle, take the first notebook, it is convenient for me to hold it in my hand and have a surface on which in the process I can put, lean my arm with notebooks. We put the notebooks in front of us in a pile and take each one in turn, so as not to confuse the top with the bottom. We insert the needle from the outside of the spine inward, then into the second hole, put a braid on top of a pair of holes, insert the needle into the second hole over the braid, hold it, then into the next hole from the inside, put the second braid, insert the needle into the next hole over the second strip and again from the inside into the last hole, the thread remains on the outside in the last hole of the notebook.

The tail of the thread should remain free, dangle, of sufficient length so that it does not slip away during the sewing process, while it needs to be held, then we will fix it. Finishing each row, you need to tighten the thread so that the stitching is tight, but do not overdo it so that the thread does not tear the paper.
Then we take the second notebook, apply it to the first, insert the needle again from the outside of the spine into the extreme hole of the second block. We continue to stitch according to the description of the firmware of the first notebook. We reach the edge, we tie the free edge of the thread into a knot.

Then we also sew the third notebook, having reached the edge with a needle, we twist the loop that fastens the adjacent blocks, so the blocks are tightly attached to each other along the edges. We flash further blocks in the same way, not forgetting to fasten the extreme holes. At the end, we also fasten the thread with a knot.

We continue to make a notebook with our own hands. In the first part, I told you how to make a cover. In the second part, we sewed the body of the notebook - the inner book block. We continue.

Now we need to glue the slime - a piece of flexible but thick paper. I make it from wrapping paper. It will hide the relief of the tapes when gluing the endpaper, and the inner block will also be held on it.

Glue a piece of cotton fabric, bandage, canvas onto the spine of the book block and to the slimes.

It will additionally strengthen and protect the spine of the block.

Now it's up to the captal. It can be hand-woven, woven, sometimes glued (from ready-made braid with a rib along one edge). Today we will learn to weave kaptal ourselves. There are many kinds of them. We will master one of them.

To do this, we need a cord, the diameter of which we select depending on the thickness of the book block, a gypsy needle (we will weave a captal from white and black threads), and, in fact, threads.
Everything seems to be clear on the diagram, but in the process I forgot and got confused many times how to weave the captal. Perhaps, as a result, I didn’t weave it clearly according to the scheme, I still don’t understand it yet :)

It seems to have developed such a scheme for the movement of a needle with a thread:
We insert the needle from the inside into the upper hole of the last notebook, hold the cord on the edge of the spine, braid the cord with a thread (movements from top to bottom away from you), leading the needle to the right of the thread, and then braid the thread from left to right and tighten the resulting knot around the cord, then reinsert the needle from the inside into the same hole. Then we insert the needle from the outside of the spine into the hole of the next notebook, but not directly adjacent, but through one, the needle comes out inside this notebook.
We repeat the cycle of movements: we braid the cord with a thread (movements from top to bottom away from us), bringing the needle to the right of the thread, and then we braid the thread from left to right and tighten the resulting knot around the cord, then we reintroduce the needle from the inside into the same hole. So through one notebook we sew a captal with a black thread. The same thing, but we knit it with a white thread through the remaining missing holes, through one notebook. You can sew with two needles at once, but I had one, so I figured out (or maybe it has long been known) how convenient it is to sew with one needle, but in two colors.

We do the same with the second edge of the spine.
Well, our indoor unit is completely ready to connect it to the cover.

We continue to make a notebook with our own hands. In the first part, I told you how to make a cover. In the second part, we sewed the body of the notebook - the inner book block. In the third part, we prepared a block for connecting with the cover: we glued the slime and wove the captal. Now we collect the notebook, the final touches.

We try on the block to the cover, put it in, see if there are any distortions, if everything fits in thickness and if the book block peeks out from the cover on the sides.
If everything is fine, we glue the inner block to the cover with slithers, on which the tapes are attached, on which we sewed the block. Lay with paper, put under the press until completely dry and glued. Then it's up to the flyers. There are also several types. We will make them from an A4 sheet, it can be handmade paper, any design paper that fits the overall design of your notebook. The main thing is that it should bend well and be sufficiently wear-resistant. We glue the sheet to the inside of the cover with one half, and to the first sheet of the last notebook with the second half, smooth it well, do not stretch it so that the notebook opens and closes well. The same goes for the back cover. Again, we put it under the press, laying it with paper so that the glue does not stain the book block.

That's it, your first notebook is functionally completely ready for battle! Congratulations. And good luck in your future endeavors.
You can paint, additionally decorate the cover with something to your taste. The voluminous decorations that you plan to stick on are best done when the notebook is sewn and glued.

P. s.: Any paper and any fabric can be used as a covering material (in this case, it must be glued with a layer of non-woven fabric for density). You can also decorate the cover with almost anything that suits your idea. Here, no one will teach you better than your own imagination.

For those who, at work or because of hobbies, often have to deal with the purchase of notebooks, this idea will be interesting. You can make a high-quality genuine leather cover with your own hands, in which it will be enough just to change sheets of paper as the previous blocks are used. You can develop a print yourself, make an embossing according to your own sketch, etc. It is very convenient in this cover that the clasp, which will allow the product itself not to swing open, is also a pen or pencil holder.

materials

To make a reusable leather cover with your own hands, you will need:

• a piece of dense leather of suitable parameters;
• small metal binding for paper;
• sharp knife;
• a tool for punching holes in the skin;
• stationery clips;
• rivets and tools for their fastening.

Step 1. Before cutting, a piece of leather must be leveled and fixed on a dense hard surface using clerical clips. Skin take moderately dense. It should hold its shape, but you will need to bend it. Be sure to consider these requirements when choosing the source material.

Step 2. Next, you need to cut out the cover itself and transfer the desired image or print onto it. In this case, everything was done using a laser machine, but the whole process can be repeated manually. More time will be needed for this.

The print can be applied manually by embossing, using stamps, or by drawing the desired pattern/ornament with special leather inks.

Step 3. In the places marked for the holes, make them. To do this, use a knife and a tool for punching round holes for rivets.

Step 4. From a small piece of leather, preferably in a contrasting shade, cut out a holder clasp.

Step 5. Using rivets, attach the metal binding to the cover to hold the pages in place.

Step 6. Bend part of the fastener of the holder and fix it in this position with small rivets.

Greetings readers of the online magazine " Handmade and creativity! After the New Year's break, we again continue to delight you with new master classes and ideas. Today I remembered my childhood and how we always made all kinds of crafts before the holidays and then gave them to our relatives or friends. Today I will show you how I made a beautiful leather binding with my own hands and gave it to my friend, and he really liked it!

Required materials and tools:

• sheets of A4 paper or any other paper that you like and suitable for a notebook;
• a piece of leather or suede (everyone has leftovers or pieces of an old bag at home, if you look carefully, you can find a lot of good material that just lies around because you don’t know what to do with it);
• sewing threads are dense and strong;
• scissors;
• large needle;
• sewing machine.

Preparing the inside of the notebook

Take prepared sheets of paper, it all depends on the size of your notebook. You can simply fold the sheets in half evenly, draw a clear middle, or trim the edges if you want the notebook to be small.

Let's collect our sheets together, we will get two small notebooks, since the machine will not be able to stitch many sheets at a time, we will divide them into two parts. Now we will make a stitch in the center of one part of the sheets and the second with a sewing machine.

Now on our blanks we will make five equal marks with a pencil, on each of the parts, having previously measured everything with a ruler. We need these marks so that we can sew our blanks together.

Stapling notebook sheets

Let's do the firmware of our blanks. Let's take a needle with a thread (the thread should be strong and beautiful) and sew our notebook according to the marks.

Sew so that you get a beautiful seam on one and the other side of the notebook, as shown in the photo.

At the end, when you return to the point where you started sewing, tie a tight knot and cut the ends of the thread with scissors. As a result, you will have a beautiful seam on both sides.

Getting started with leather binding

Now it's time for the final touch - making our cover. To do this, take, measure and cut out the cover template from a sheet of paper, try it on our blank of the inside of the notebook (choose the size as you like, but somewhere around 3-4 centimeters you need to step back from the edge of the notebook), apply it to our piece of leather and cut out our cover.

Fold our cover in half and draw rounded corners with a pencil.

Then carefully cut them with scissors and you should get such a beautiful leather cover for a notebook, made by yourself, using simple tools at hand.

Cut out the remnants of the skin lace for tying our notebook

Our notebook is almost ready, it remains for us to sew our cover to the notebook itself. To do this, we will attach our notebook to the cover and mark with a pencil on the inside of the cover the points along which we will sew.

Sew on the leather cover

We sew our cover to the inside of the notebook carefully and in the same way as we sewed the blanks of the notebook together, as shown in the photo.

Having collected the notebook, fold it and see if the edges of the sheets are uneven and they are very visible, then they can be cut off, having previously measured with a ruler so that it is even.

That's all our master class is over. It turned out to be a very nice notebook, which is perfect for both your own notes and for a gift for a loved one.

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In this master class, we suggest you make a completely ordinary item that every creative or creative person needs. business person, pupil and student. This is a notepad. We will make it completely from scratch: from binding to genuine leather cover.

materials

To make your own leather notebook, you will need:

• a piece of genuine leather;
• thick white carbon paper;
• a needle with a large eye;
• tailor's chalk or pencil;
• strong thread;
• awl;
• sharp knife;
• ruler.

Step 1. You will need to fold the sheets of carbon paper in half. Take your time, make the folds neat so that the halves of the sheet are identical to each other and in the future do not look beyond the edges of the main row.

Determine the number of sheets, starting from the desired thickness of the notebook. It is not necessary to cut the blanks.

Step 2. Fold the prepared sheets in a pile and press down with heavy books. The latter will play the role of the press. In order for the sheets to lay down as needed, it will take about an hour to hold them in this position.

Step 3. Take a tailor's marker and a prepared stack of pages for a future notebook. Attach the sheets to a piece of leather laid out on the table. Circle them, not forgetting the allowance for the spine of the notebook.

Step 4. Cut out the cover according to the outlined lines from the leather.

Step 5. Take an awl and pierce the sheets in places where you will skip the binding threads. When making punctures, be sure to compare the elements with each other. The holes must be located strictly at the same distance from the edge.

Step 6. Thread the needle through the thread and sew the sheets together. You can see the alternate sequence of stitches in the photos of the process.

Step 7. Now you will need to take the prepared leather cover and make punctures in it. To do this, also use an awl and observe the distance between the holes.

Step 8. Sew the cover to the existing binding. The threads should initially be taken such that they match in tone with the original leather material or are combined with it.

At the end of the process, carefully tie the thread and cut off the excess so that they do not stick out anywhere.