Basic Bookbinding Tool Kit

We recommend that you have a BBTK with the listed items below to bring to each of our get togethers. Items have been marked with symbols of where you can acquire them with links. You are welcome to expand your kit to include whatever tools you have found useful for you.

Cutting Mat (an old phone book or magazine can be used instead)*+#^
X-acto knife & blades; clip-point knife*+#^
Utility knife*+#^
Pencil*+^
Rulers: see-through plastic & metal straight edge*+#^
Large-eyed tapestry needle (blunt) or bookbinder's needles+#^
Clothes pins or binder-clips (5 or 6)*
Glue Stick (we recommend UHU) and/or other types of adhesive, such as a PVA *+#^
Glue Brush+#^
Waste Paper
Bone Folder*+#^
Awl (T-pin or thin sharp sewing needle glued into a bottle cork)*+#^

* Spokane Art Supply

+ Hollander's

# Colophon Book Arts

^ Talas