PSA: A guy at the craft fair in Springfield looked at my hand-bound journal and asked if I 'printed the lines on the paper before or after gluing it all together'.

He was dead serious, and I had to explain the whole process of folding signatures and sewing them to the spine, which took about 15 minutes while he just nodded slowly, and now I wonder if he thinks all books are just stacks of single pages glued at the edge.

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kellymurphy1d ago

My friend had to explain to someone that her quilt wasn't just one giant piece of fabric.

jesse_harris1d ago

Wait, did they think it was printed? I'm curious what made them think that in the first place, like have they never seen a quilt up close before?