Final Folded Outcome

Creating my folded format!

This was the one part of the project that I was particularly concerned about, I have no experience making a physical book apart from our book binding workshop and I was lacking a lot of the skills and materials I needed. 

The first step was to create a layout, by taking paper and folding it into the saddle stitch style of folding I could then number the pages, so that when you pull them apart you can see what page has to go next to what. 

I then couldn't for the life of me figure out how to print this, I tried asking my peers and I was struggling massively, every time I tried to print it came out all in the wrong order, sometimes upside down and all sorts. 

I had to use my printer at home because due to illness I couldn't get out of the house and get to the university but I didn't want to let this stop me from having a really good go anyway; the print quality is low but this is just a dummy book after all. 

I finally got all the pages printed in the correct order. I then took a piece of card and wrapped this in the cloth material that I wanted to use for the cover. It looks a little messy on the inside and I probably could have done it better but the idea is there. 

I then bound the book together using the saddle stitch method. 

Finally I drew onto the cover and back using a paint pen. Its rather messy but I hope you can see what I have tried to do. 

I wanted to make my pages sort of old and stained but I didn't know how to do this with the resources at hand, its all so low quality that I just didn't want to risk ruining the ink that I had , which I would not have time to get more of and cost me my entire bank balance :') 

Here is my end result 

I will not try to pretend this is perfect in any way. The pages were not quite right, the images not centalised properly and therefore it doesn't line up well. This is one of the many faults- however, Im proud of it, I wanted to make something that felt like an old fashioned cloth bound book, and I think I have done this. Aging the paper somehow would have been even better though.