Bookbinding 101 Determining the Paper Grain

Before making a video tutorial on basic case making, I thought I should make a quick instruction on how to determine the direction of paper grain, in case your paper stock doesn’t indicate whether it’s “short grain“ or “long grain“. It’s important to know which way the grain is running on paper and boards when binding a book. Making the paper grain parallel to the spine of the book would help to prolong the life of the book and lets the turning of the pages easier, as well as makes the binding process less