Exploring different book types. Here I made a Japanese thread book, and I watched a tutorial on YouTube. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-r6c_trSxY

The purpose of making this book was exploring how different books affect your photography and also how the layout works on each of the pages as these Japanese thread books can not be double sided so you have to think more about the images sit next to each other and what will look better, landscape or portrait or if you'll make some diptychs. I decided to make a portrait book because I wanted to see how images paired with each other work on a page.

First off this is where we had to fold the paper over 3 times so fold it in half and then 2 more times so that when you punch the holes in the paper you can use it as a template and once you unfold the paper you make a mark every 2 folds. 

I folded the black paper in half and then cut it for the two sides of the cover and again, used the template to put the holes in, I had to push and twist for the whole to go through all the pages I had. 

I decided which colour of thread would look best so I decided the orange/red one as I had a more autumnal theme going on in the photographs that I took. For the amount of thread I needed it is about five times the length of the height of my book.

Starting from the second hole from the top, and I left about 5 inches and I tucked it into the middle page of the book for the knot later on. I then wrapped the thread from underneath and back from the top following the YouTube tutorial and it was quite easy.

This bit was quite hard getting the needle back through the middle and then I just tied a knot there and that was done.

These are a few pages from my book. Throughout most the book, I paired images together, but I may experiment a landscape book and have singular images on each page and how it looks different and maybe experiment with a different type of binding.

I quite liked the process of the Japanese bookbinding but I'm not too sure on the way the pages open and the book doesn't lay flat as much as a saddle stitched book would for example.

This is where I used the ruler guides because I wanted each image to sit in the same place. I used the images to narrate a story of a journey and the pictures go from inside to outside and the images shown are quite personal and also the pictures get gradually lighter towards the end.

Over all it turned out pretty successful although I could've done the layout pages slightly differently and done some singular pages, as for a Japanese book you cant do a double sided page so that's the reason I put two images on a page rather than just 1 maybe a landscape book would've been slightly better possibly in A5. I was trying to pair the images and put them in a book as a diptych which didn't work out as well as I would've liked it to so I may experiment again. For the Japanese book, I don't think portrait was the best option since I used more landscape images rather than portrait and this can only be one sided so the images wouldn't be able to spread across to the next page.