How to Apply Upper Tape for Book Binding

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Gary for Expert Village. Now let's starting putting tape across the book. I chose my thin tape. The first place I am going to put the tape is across the top here. This gives this part support where it usually starts to rip and we just put a strip across just like we did over here. You can see there is a strip going across here and it also has a nice clean look when we put the tape down the sides. It gives a nice clean look when we put on top as well. So let's go ahead and do that. We take our tape and for that we will need about 2 1/2 inches. So what we need to do is take a little bit of tape. Don't put it exactly on the end but we need to leave it over a little bit, probably about half the width of the tape and that is going to be tucked in into the bottom and give it more where you won't be able to see it. We are going to tuck it into the spine and that will prevent the tape if we put it right to the top. Sometimes the tape starts to come off and get sticky. This way it is going to be nice and clean. It is going to over the top and we are going to tuck it inside so you won't even see the edges. Now what we are going to do in order to make it easier to tuck inside at the edge where the continuation of the book, we are going to make a little snip and the tape will have its grooves over here and also on the other side. Now the tape is actually into 3 different strips and that will make it easier to open up and we can fold it down. One will go down into this side and the other one will go down the back cover. There's a space here between the hard cover on the back and you see this yellow ribbon which is what is holding the pages together. You don't have to be afraid to just pull it out a little bit so you see a space. I take my knife and I use the very sharp part of it because it will just poke holes but I use that to kind of separate it and tuck it down in between that part of the hard cover and where the pages are. I just very light, very gently so it doesn't rip the tape. I just kind of stuff it in there. "