I've been diving into a bit of book binding youtube lately. It looks like it could be quite a relaxing little craft hobby. Now I've got a baby I've been thinking a bit about activities we can do together when she is older, and I think we could have a lot of fun doing some arts and crafts (painting, drawing, collage, etc.) Being able to make notebooks and such together could be fun too. I'm picturing making books that we then can fill out with things, like little 'diaries' that start out with pasted pictures and scrawls and progress to writing practice and clipped-out art from stuff we find.
Here's some nice channels I've found so far.
Four Keys Book Arts (https://www.youtube.com/@FourKeysBookArts) (some amazing videos here on medieval binding too).
Bitter Melon Bindary (https://www.youtube.com/@bittermelonbindery) (nice introductory videos)
Ido Agassi (https://www.youtube.com/@idoAgassi)
Book Care Studio (https://www.youtube.com/@BookCareStudio)
DAS Book Binding (https://www.youtube.com/@DASBookbinding)
Finally, I think the reddit page on book binding (https://www.reddit.com/r/bookbinding/) is quite inspiring!
I'm at the stage now of accumulating some basic tools, with a few remaining things on their way in the post. I'm not sure how much time I'll have for this hobby at the moment (maybe just a few hours a month to start with!) but I'll post my creations here.
Is there anybody else here who has some experience binding? Maybe you have some resources you'd like to share? Or pictures of your creations?