How To Dye Book Pages

I needed and wanted more than just brown/aged pages for my junk journals and wanted to try out food coloring. The final result is better than I could have ever imagined. Here's how to dye book page paper: You need Rit Dye in the colors you want, a container (I used an old 9X13 pan), warm water, book pages, 2 spoons (or metal tongs), foil and paper towels.

In the past year, sprayed pages have really grown in popularity-both publishers and book boxes creating special editions with colored edges! And so, today I wanted to bring you a tutoria. First cover the front and back "cardboard pages" of your book with a sheet of paper, covering the angles of the book. It's to protect the cover and avoid paint stains.

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Mix the dye with water (how much water/dye depends on how dark you want the top edge/head of the textblock). With the top edge/head clamped down thus, apply the dye. Wear gloves and use either a sponge, or crumpled paper towel to administer the dye.

Make sure the sponge/paper tower, once dipped in the dye, is completely wrung out. In this video I'll demonstrate how to put solid #coloured edges on a book. I will do a basic #edge preparation with a final brush burnishing and a more thor.

What works best for me is: clamp text block tight in a book press (I made my own out of two wooden cutting boards) so that the pages you want to paint are juuust a hair above the edge of the press boards. Use a dry paint brush to put a very thing layer of talcum powder on the page edges. You want this talcum powder layer to barely be there, so I usually use a second dry paintbrush to sweep.