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I finally stopped defending my stitching method after a chat with a 70 year old finisher
Last month I was at a bindery meetup in Portland and this old timer named Ray watched me whip-stitch a text block for maybe two minutes. He said, 'you're doing it pretty, but you're doing it slow, and speed matters when the glue dries.' I got defensive at first because I've been doing the same stitch for 8 years now, but he pulled out his own sample and showed me how he does a link stitch that cuts the thread path in half. I went home and tried his way on some scrap book cloth and honestly it felt like learning to tie my shoes again. Now I'm wondering if I've been making every binding harder than it needs to be for no good reason. Has anyone else had a veteran show you a simpler trick that made you question your whole setup? What did they show you and how long did it take to switch over?
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