Old master said my coptic stitching was too tight, took me a year to loosen up
He told me in a workshop back in 2017 that my spine would crack in a decade, so I switched to a shallower needle angle and now my journals flex way better, anyone else get called out on tension that felt right at the time?
Man, that hits hard! I had the same thing with my teacher, he told me my stitches were so tight the pages would rip before the binding wore out... took me forever to trust the looser feel but now my sketchbooks actually lay flat.