For this handmade book assignment in the Digital Lab 6 course, I show students different techniques such as: sewing a book using the Smyth method, Japanese stab binding, adding a hard or soft cover to a sewn book block, and dry mounting. All the printing is done here at Dawson College by students using the double sided Canon printer (which prints matt) or the single sided Epson printers.

Examples of different binding used to create the books.
- Japanese stab binding with a soft cover
- Smyth binding with a hard cover and a ribbon (and nice textured end papers)
- Japanese stab binding with a soft cover. Pages were folded in half but were printed double sided so there are hidden images inside the folded pages.
- Smyth binding with a soft cover. A box with embroidery and covered in binding cloth. All images inside the box were dry mounted to individual matt boards.

Kate Hutchinson