Gave up my linen thread for synthetic after 8 years of stubbornness
I learned binding on pure linen thread back in 2013 at a workshop in Portland, and I swore by it through every single project. Last spring my local supplier was out of my usual weight, so I grabbed a spool of bonded nylon on a whim, mostly to avoid a second trip. First couple of coptic stitch books, I kept waiting for it to snap or slip, but the tension held perfectly and the books lie flatter than my old ones. Six months later, I've switched fully for my daily journals, though I still pull out the linen for anything with a really heavy text block. Anyone else made the jump after resisting it forever, or do you have a good reason to stick with natural fibers?