While the glue dries...

I'm waiting to be able to work on the next step of my uncles book, so while the glue is trying I have been experimenting with adhesive free binding. 

Today's effort  is vaguely based on a Coptic stitch with added French link stitches (the herringbone stitch). 

This is some of my favourite paper too, I was given it by a bookbinder in Siena who prints it himself. He uses it in his shop to wrap the books when they're bought.