DIY Chinese book-binding tutorial (4-hole) | Girl City

[@GirlCityhk]

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[@oheyethere]

Exactly what I was looking for and it was explained to clearly! I'll be happy if mine turns out half as good eheh

[@GirlCityhk]

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[@welm8412]

Perfect! Exactly what I've been searching for this past hours

[@lucyricardo8713]

Loved this so much!!

[@okamiseele8614]

That’s so awesome!

[@wingchicken9456]

Whats the paper material for the cover?

[@bocbinsgames6745]

Some type of blue (these books are generally blue) card. I've used a pack of 230gsm card I found online. Try get the higher quality cards.

[@sky3819]

Good video but it doesn't show how to end the binding... So I'm stuck after the knot, I just have that little piece of thread from the beginning hanging out the side. Am I supposed to just cut it? Thank you

[@happyhumoresque25]

yes, cut it but not too close to the knot?

[@porandojin5751]

Probably glue it.

[@lenanana8]

What is the recommended number of folded signatures for this type of binding? Great video on a traditional bookbinding that I could follow easily to make practival every-day books, thankyou!

[@IlLupoAC]

Hello! Thank you for your work! Would this method also work with loose pages, not folded ones? I'm thinking about making a book a little bit larger than this one.

[@一人ぼっち-g4w]

Yep

[@robertotr12]

What is the purpose of the first two holes and the twisted paper going though them? I couldn’t quite understand their function. Are they removed later?

[@bocbinsgames6745]

Holding the book together whne you punch the 4 holes

[@ShinkuRosetta]

Myne 😍

[@Bootybuttmuncher]

Very cool

[@electroweakuni]

What is the type of glue she uses?

[@blanchebao3191]

it's a glue made from rice

[@kppoon5040]

我國的古籍,不就是線裝書,看看通勝吧,不過現在是車縫的了.

[@lotuseater7247]

this is also called Japanese style, so what is the difference?

[@barbiebarbie1813]

Ancient Chinese book . not Japan 's

[@lotuseater7247]

@@barbiebarbie1813 ok well i did the research anyway, seems Japan took the inspiration in the Edo period some 600 years later, but China may have utilised some ideas from India too. But the method of stabbing in 4 holes is recognised as Chinese.

[@barbiebarbie1813]

@@lotuseater7247 India may have utilised some ideas from China too. Yes , Japanese culture copied from ancient China.

[@lotuseater7247]

@@barbiebarbie1813 I mean Indian Buddhist binding was influential, but using leaves instead of paper. In any case, I wondered why this method is more commonly called Japanese book binding when it is Chinese.

[@bocbinsgames6745]

@@lotuseater7247 A lot of the shared culture between China and Japan (and the rest of east asia) is called Japanese not because it necessarily came from japan, but because it came from Japan to the west. After the US occupation of Japan after WWII there was a lot of cultural exchange and a lot of shared-culture things became known as Japanese exclusively, or primarily. They aren't so much called Chinese because at that time China was in civil war, and later became a geopolitical rival to the US led order (less cultural interchange), which meant that the Chinese origin of a lot of things are often overlooked / forgotten about in western society.