Expert guide to creating fine books by hand. Thorough, detailed instructions, with over 270 helpful illustrations, cover materials, tools and equipment, making a slipcase, rebinding an old book, more. Also, 8 specific projects: dust jacket; blank book, single signature; folio; manuscript binding; music binding, 3 more. Introduction.

Hobbyists can learn the art of bookbinding from a renowned Victorian master in a classic that offers expert, easy-to-follow advice on every stage of the craft. The author, whose custom bookbinding has been revered since the nineteenth century, offers step-by-step instructions on every stage of the process: from folding the leaves and sewing them into signatures to gluing, gilding edges, covering, and finishing. Over 117 woodcuts and lithographs from...

In these pages, Jason Thompson has curated an extensive and artistic range of both achievable upcycled crafts made from books and book pages and an amazing gallery that contains thought-provoking and beautiful works that transform books into art. The content encompasses a wide range of techniques and step-by-step projects that deconstruct and rebuild books and their parts into unique, upcycled objects. The book combines in equal measure bookbinding,...

In Paper Parties, designer-maker Erin has carefully curated over 50 paper projects for chic, fabulous celebrations that will delight and inspire anyone who loves to make playful and beautiful things. Paper Parties was born out of Erin Hung's love affair with paper as a medium and her passion for celebrations that are bursting with fun. Gone are the days when p̀apercrafts' conjure up images of shabby-chic scrapbooks and heaps of unnecessary embellishment....

The book is a timeless art form, one that is as alive today as ever before, and artists continue to explore and explode the boundaries of what a book is and can be. In this beautiful collection, you will experience close-up various aspects of hand-crafted books: covers, bindings, scrolls, folded and origami structures and books made from found objects. You will find richly illustrated and calligraphic pages as well as books created from a variety...

A guide to hand book-binding.

How to Make Books, Albums, Slipcases, and More! There's nothing like making your own sketchbook, or wrapping a favorite book in the perfect homemade slipcase. And you can create it all yourself! Select the tools and materials you'll need, master basic book-binding techniques, and practice your new skills on 12 eye-catching projects. Then explore the gallery of variations for more inspiration to make each book form your own. Whether you're an experienced...

Las posibilidades que ofrece una simple hoja de papel son innumerables y bastante fascinantes. Encontrarás en este libro muchas ideas para entretenerte y crear cajas, sobres, marcadores, animales y figuras variadas... Déjate cautivar y seducir con este juego mágico, en un chasquido de pliegues de papel, con paciencia. Habilidad y creatividad.

A Petal Unfolds is brimming with easy-to-make DIY paper flowers to bring beauty to your home. Susan gives step-by-step advice, discussing basic materials, tools and techniques as well as tips on flower parts, colouring and painting, before guiding you through each tutorial — so you can make something just as stunning as the real thing. A Petal Unfolds is brimming with easy-to-make DIY paper flowers to bring beauty and style to your home. Susan gives...

"Enter the enchanting world of pop-ups and handmade paper crafts. Join author Helen Hiebert as she guides you through materials, tools and pop-up basics including parallel folds, angle folds, combinations and variations, and layered pop-ups. Enjoy creating 20 projects to play with ranging from cards and books to buildings, graphic design pieces, and more. Featuring a high-end gallery of artists, whose beautiful work will inspire you to make your own...