Book making things I found.

Pocket Accordion Book
Look here!

There's a tutorial on how to make this book, which is kind of like a concertina except that the covers aren't joint by a spine and it has pockets.
(Pockets are pretty much always awesome.)
I found this near the start of my book making looking, but I don't think it would make an especially good photobook as the pockets make it more of an album than anything else.


Embroidery

Since (as I said earlier) I haven't embroidered since I was nine and I never finished the napkin thing I started I looking for some advice and I found this site which has tutorials on different stitches.
And I found this book:

This site is another place I looked, I wish it had photographs of the back of the work.

but ultimately none of these were of much use because I used the sewing machine instead of doing it by hand, but I think they will be helpful in the future.

Elizabeth Carls

is a mixed media book artist who mostly works with paper. I found her through etsy. She has this thing called 'Things to Consider with Book Binding". This is quite a handy wee resource, especially in terms of knowing, or feeling like I know what I'm talking about. However, it does seem to get a little less useful as it wears on. It begins with some definitions, then it talks about grain, how you find it's direction and why it is important. I feel like we should have been told more about grain when we made books in first year, it seems important. Though I'm really glad that I have no glue or folds in my book because I'm not quite clear on how to use this grain knowledge yet. Then she talks about archival materials (and their relationship with acid-free materials) and finally there are notes about what to think about in terms of book content.
Anyway, the reason I looked at Carls is this

which I now struggle to remember the relevance of.

These

are some very cute notebooks made here (she's not selling them any more, in case you followed the link and only found bags). Anyway here are some covers:

And here is the best part:

The blog I found these on is frustrating in that the author seems to be opposed to using capital letters and any punctuation other than ellipses.

Katie Gonzales hand-makes books. There are lots of cool ones one her site. I've taken the following pictures and some of the text from there.

Coptic

Developed by early Christians in Egypt, Copts were using this chain stitch by the 2^nd century A.D. Stitching is decorative and practical, allowing pages to lay flat when open for journaling or sketching.

This is a much more decorative version of the Japanese stab binding that I'm doing.

Italian Long-stitch

A simple stitch allows for many variations and embellishments. Europeans used this style as early as the 1700s, often for journals and sketchbooks.