home_and_away | Things Learnt Today:

1) The coptic stitch, while lovely and easy on the brain, does not seem to lend itself to bindings involving three or fewer signatures. We get to figure out either how to modify it, or something else to do in its stead, for the Evil Gazebo.

2) However! The coptic stitch CAN be done through a pierced piece of reinforced-into-oblivion bookcloth. Requires a bit of fidgeting and lots of going through fiddly little holes, but it CAN be done, and would probably be quite pretty...if done on something with more than three signatures. File this idea and come back to it, we will.

3) The up-side to only having three sigs and a cover to deal with is that a book--from cutting out the bookcloth and drilling holes in the cover boards to gluing everything down and putting it in the press--can go together in something like seven hours, even when you're not totally certain what you're doing. We'll see how other bindings go together in comparison.

Also fun: I set up a last.fm station for workmusic. Woohoo. :)