I don’t know if this is the kind of question you get here, but it’s worth a try. I want a blank book block, ready for covering. I went to http://www.twohandspaperie.com/ in person yesterday and while I was there, the last one was sold and they won’t get them in for 2 more months! Web searches turn up encyclopedias, deja.com turned up a discussion on alt.fan.cecil-adams on binding styles people hate.
I just want to buy one of these things so I don’t end up making the book block, doing the binding and covering all myself for a baby book. I’m crazy enough to do it, but am looking for a more sane route.
I did bind two books yesterday for my daughters- they love them. It isnt’ really very hard, turns out. But it’s hard to do a great job.
I went to the site, but they have a lot of thins for sale.
I can’t quite see the item you mean. If it’s just a blank book, most good cardshops and bookstores carry them.
If not, what is it exactly?
It’s one of two things- either just the pages bound together with no cover at all, or the pages bound together with a rough, uncovered cover. With the first, you get “davey board” (kind of like mat board), make a cover, attach it and add the decorative paper, leather, metal, whatever, and the endpapers. With the second, you add the decorative outer cover and endpapers.
The advantages of the ones I saw were that they were larger than most journals in stationers, and nicer paper for much less- then I can add a paper that I really like. Two Hands has some wonderful papers.