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Creating Handmade Books
by
Alisa Golden
Everyone has a story to tell--so make your own book to tell it with! From the scissors that snip the pages to the glues and stitches and ties that bind them; from elaborate compound structures with pockets to multiple signatures in a thick, sewn volume, here are the techniques you need and the styles you want. Cut and fold pages in a simple accordion, or hide a second boo...more
Paperback, 128 pages
Published
June 30th 2000
by Sterling
(first published December 31st 1998)
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If you love paper, and making things with it, you should at least read this...but you won't help but want to make something by the time you're finished!
Book Arts was so much better.
An excellent book on the craft of book-making. It includes a wide variety of book styles and how to make and bind them using traditional and contemporary techniques. The images were interesting and the step by step guides were helpful. Included are projects of a variety of difficulty levels, so it's nice if you are just a beginner or someone who already knows something. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to learn something new, renew a dwindling art, or just to have fun making his/her...more
Not necessarily a replacement for learning to make books from another real-life human being, this book is a great reference when you can't exactly remember the order of operations for that book structure you learned a while back. I use it as a reference book quite often.
Creating Handmade Books has been an extremely useful resource in getting started with handmade books. I've made quite a few based on the forms described in this book, and look forward to trying the rest.
This is a "I wish I had tons more time and resources to just sit around and make home-made books all day" book. So great.
I *love* book making. Freakishly adore. Cannot get enough of. Seriously.
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