How to collect books from scratch and make your own book How much does it cost?

You can easily create e-books simply by uploading Word and PDF filesserviceOr you can easily create books at homeserviceHave appeared, people who gathered materials such as wood and leather and performed literally "self-published publications" have appeared.

How To Make A $ 400 Book Entirely From Scratch - YouTube


◆ Step 1:Papyrus paperMaking (duration: 3 hours)


First of all it begins by collecting papyrus grass, which is a raw material for papyrus paper.


Grinding the grass skin with a knife thinly ......


Include water and flatten with a sticky rod.


I superimpose papyrus grass which became Petankanko many times in orthogonal direction.



Cover up and down with cloth ......


I will roll the stick and roll the tissue of the grass.


Put a plate and put a paint can from the top, dehydrate.


◆ Step 2:parchmentMaking (cumulative required time: 9 hours)


Hold the gun and lurk behind the shade.


It was a big deer that I took down.


Dongbow to a bucket filled with water then fur.


I will honor the surface hair politely.


Drill a hole in the rim of the leather, let through the straps ......


I stretch it in the wooden frame.


Put off the extra leather ......


Dry in the shade.


◆ Step 3:GyozaMaking (cumulative required time: 11 hours)
I will cut off a part of the skin I stretched with a knife.


Put the skin in a pot with water.


Simmer until it becomes a muddy.


Filter with the filter boiled down until it becomes yellow ocher color.


This completed "glue" is used as glue.


Transfer the glue to a storage bin and proceed to the next task.


◆ Step 4: Pencil making (cumulative required time: 13.5 hours)


First cut the tree branches to the appropriate length.


Drill a hole in the center.


In addition, we prepare thinner branches than before.


Burn a thin branch ... ...


Buried in the hole of the thicker branch, carbonized one.


Next, take out the glue created in step 3.


Carefully pour the glue into the hole ......


If you cut the tip, the pencil is completed.


◆ Step 5:pulpPaper making (cumulative required time: 17.5 hours)


Apart from parchment paper, it seems to make paper using different materials. Firstly, I cut down trees.


If you put the power and google ......


The tree fell well and it's a big deal.


I will further cut the cut down trees.


Processed into fine chips.


Put chips and water in the mixer ......


I will crush it finely.


Pour the chip on the mixer into the sink.


Scoop up the fibers using the sieve.


Unfold the sieve on a dry cloth, remove the scooped ... ...


Once dried, a little brownish paper was completed.


◆ Step 6:HempMaking (cumulative required time: 35 hours)


Collect hemp as a raw material.


Put a bag of hemp into an empty pot.


Crush the fiber while tapping with a wood stick.


I will split soft hemp by hand.


Hemp broken into pieces finely.


Dissolve this in water and make paper with hands like pulp paper.


However, in making heap, put paper across a dry cloth ......


Dehydrate by applying pressure from the top with a press machine.


Potapota and water came out of the press machine's skimmer.


◆ Step 7: Brush making (cumulative required time: 36 hours)


Grab a suitable amount of horse mane and cut with scissors.


Like pencil making, we drill a hole in the tip of the tree branch and cut it thinly.


Horse mane glue coated in the hole ... ...


If you fix the root with a string, it is a wild brush complete.


◆ Step 8: Finger sticks with glue (cumulative required time: 37 hours)


It seems that it took 1 hour to peel off fingers strongly sticking to each other during graffiti making.


◆ Step 9: Make ink


Utilizing charcoal when making pencils.


Mix glue and charcoal to make ink.



◆ Step 10:Feather penMaking (cumulative required time: 38 hours)


Use larger feathers.


In order to process the blade supple supple, insert the blade tip into the grilled sand and leave it until the sand cools off.


Put a vertical cut in the tip of the feather so as to suck up the ink, and scrape the tip of the blade into a pen shape.


When the feather pen is completed, soak it in ink and write it.


Successfully writing letters firmly as follows.


◆ Step 11:Cotton paperMaking (cumulative required time: 48 hours)


Collect cotton in a cotton field.


Wash large quantities of cotton with water.


Transfer the washed cotton to another container.


Like pulp paper and hemp paper making, we will make cotton paper with hands.


The finished paper is pure white.


Dehydrate by applying pressure with a press machine.


Peel off the dewatered paper from the cloth ... ...


Pinch with clips, and let it dry further.


◆ Step 12: Cover leather (cumulative required time: 48.5 hours)


For the cover of the book, I will use the extra portion of the deer skin.


Immerse it in the juice of the plant and do 'tanning'.


Completion of leather processing if dried.


Cut it to be the size of the book.


◆ Step 13: Cutting & thread binding (total time required: 50 hours)


Cut the same size by aligning the paper so far created.


Remove the parchment from the wooden frame ......


Cut off the irregular parts of the surroundings and mold it.


I will flatten the surface of the deco cake.


Pile the folded paper halfway in the middle ... ...


Open holes at regular intervals in the crease area.


If you let thread through the hole ......


The completion of the book.


Try writing with a hand made writing instrument on a blank page immediately.


The pencil has a thick core and a wild writing taste.


Successfully writing letters by immersing the ink in a brush made of horse's hair.


I will immerse the feather pen in the ink.


Compared to pencils and brushes, you can write thin and delicate touch characters.


So if you make a book from scratch, the total working time is 50 hours. The minimum labor wage in the Minnesota state in the USA where Andy George lives is 8 dollars per hour (about 900 yen), so the labor cost it took to make a book was 400 dollars (about 47,000 yen) It was.


Andy seems satisfied with the completion of the finished book.


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