The old binder at the flea market said my signatures were fighting each other

Mila Harris · 2026-10-27T16:15:03.960104+00:00

I was showing a half-finished journal to an older guy who had a table at the flea market in Lansing a few weeks ago, and he flipped through the sections and said my signatures were fighting each other. He meant I was pulling the thread one way through each fold, so the whole spine twisted when the book opened. I re-sewed the next one with a figure eight around the tapes and the spine finally sat flat. Now I test every book by laying it down and seeing if the pages settle on their own. What's your go-to trick for keeping the sections from pulling out of line?

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