How to bind loose journal pages ?

by kari
(victoria, bc canada)

Mixed Media Art Questions for Milliande

Hello Milliande and friends,
Over the years i have journalled in spiral bound notebooks - pages 6"x 9" / 15 x 23mm. In effort to assemble them in date order, i have torn them from the spirals & they are now assembled. i have had to trim some of the paper bits from the edges. i am now trying to figure out how to bind them...

I was told by a local printing shop that if they re-coiled them, that they would have to trim them down even more, which doesn't sit well with me as my stories / art often goes right to the edge.

I hope that some of the wise women in our group would lend some of their insight with me.

Perhaps i will have to sandwich the pages between two pieces of card stock and simply tie it all in a knot?
i will try to attach a photo..
With love and gratitude,
kari

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Mixed Media Art Questions answered by Milliande

Hi Kari

~ an interesting dilemma, by the looks of it your art journal pages are fairly thin so could be quite fragile when trying to rebind or restitch ..

~ there are various coil binders on the market that would be able to recoil them ..including the " Bind it all" which is a art and craft binder..however that would not eliminate your problem of loosing some of the edges ..hmm

~ I would probably create a loose art journal cover with pockets and trim the pages so that the leftover punching does not show and maybe just cover sections of pages that belong together with bookbinders tape ( they come in colors like black, brown, red canvas type etc) ..that will only work for a few pages but might be an option

~ usually when making handbound art journals one creates types of signatures that are sewn or bound together...but those are folded to give a strong edge ... again you could fold the pages but would loose visibility of the text itself ...

~ I will pass this one around see whether anyone else has any clever ideas

hope this helps
...milliande
Mixed Media Artist