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That one fact about grain direction in bookcloth caught me off guard
I was reading a blog post from Hollander's last week and they said most bookcloth sold in craft stores has cross-grain fibers. No wonder my last rebinding warped after a month. Has anyone else run into this with pre-made cloth from hobby shops?
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craig.tessa28d ago
It's always the small hidden details nobody tells you about that end up making or breaking a project. Seems like everything from bookbinding to baking has one of those traps where a single overlooked variable ruins all your work.
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tylermurray28d ago
Book cloth from hobby stores is basically a trap for anyone who actually wants their books to lay flat after a few weeks. I grabbed a whole stack of that pre-glued stuff from a big chain craft store and every single project I did with it ended up curling like a potato chip. The grain direction thing is real, but nobody ever mentions it in the tutorials or on the package label. Now I always test a small strip first before I commit to cutting the whole piece. Wish I had known this years ago, would have saved me from trashing a custom journal I spent three days on.
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