Constructing and Covering Boxes: A Beginner's Guide

by Tom Holland, Cindy Hollander

Learn all the steps necessary to make a variety of colorful, decorative, useful boxes created from book board and covered with book cloth or paper, serving a variety of purposes for use in the home or as gifts. Over 230 clear color photos illustrate every step needed to make hinged lid, clamshell, and creative boxes. Necessary tools and materials are discussed and essential formulas are provided for each box type discussed. Basic skills necessary for the successful production of any box are also explored, including determining grain direction, pattern layout, cutting materials, covering book board with paper or book cloth, and gluing. Also provided are box making resources, a useful glossary of terms, and an appendix featuring measurement conversions. This book will be a joy for anyone interested in beautiful box construction.

Genres: Nonfiction, Crafts, Art

80 pages, Paperback

First published January 28, 2009

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[Linda]

Excellent resource for beginner box makers with lots of photos. Book presents an interesting and less complicated way to cover boxes (I was taught to use one sheet to cover outside of the box, which you can imagine is hard to find & hard to handle such a large sheet of paper). The Book presents a way to cover the sides first with smaller pieces of paper. And then cover the front of the box.

There was also another way to handle corners and how to cover them: you miter and cut the paper into a V shape for the bottom of the tray. Another technique which is different is handling the inside of the corners where you make straight cuts down the edge of the board at each corner, and you glued it down in the V shape corner.

An excellent addition is the formulas that is at the end of the book which help you calculate different size boxes that you would want to make.

Although it is not addressed, he shows sectioned boxes., But he does not show how you would do this. I assume that that would be considered advanced or intermediate box making.