How to add book ribbons to a special book
Every hardcover reference book that you turn to frequently deserves to have its own placeholder ribbons. Here's how to add them to your book.
1. Head to your local arts and crafts store and buy some ribbon. I’m talking real cloth ribbon here, people. Not the flimsy stuff for gifts.
2. Find some stiff card and punch a hole in it. Thread the ribbon through the hole as shown.
3. Drop the card into the spine of the book. Push it down, out of sight.
4. And voila, your book now has two placeholder ribbons. Ask your book how it feels. It will reply: Ecce vide, pulchra sumus. (“See, we are beautiful.”)
1. Head to your local arts and crafts store and buy some ribbon. I’m talking real cloth ribbon here, people. Not the flimsy stuff for gifts.
2. Find some stiff card and punch a hole in it. Thread the ribbon through the hole as shown.
3. Drop the card into the spine of the book. Push it down, out of sight.
4. And voila, your book now has two placeholder ribbons. Ask your book how it feels. It will reply: Ecce vide, pulchra sumus. (“See, we are beautiful.”)
posted by Jonathan at
1/16/2010 07:42:00 p.m.
3 Comments:
Instead of threading the ribbon through the hole in a complicated way, you can also just pass it through the hole, or staple it.
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Jonathan, at 2/20/2010 7:32 p.m.
What's the shinny penny for? Does it have a function in this or is it just to demonstrate size, proportions and such? Or did my dumb blond ass miss something here?
-Lola Babycakes
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Anonymous, at 5/05/2010 11:21 p.m.
@Lola - Yep, the penny is just for a size comparison.
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Jonathan, at 7/21/2011 8:36 p.m.
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