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B3156. Book + Art / Krause Book + Art: Handcrafting Artists' Books by Dorothy Simpson Krause. 2009. 144pp. 8-1/4"x9-7/8" Paper
List Price: $24.99.
Rather than a book solely on binding techniques, this book’s premise is to view the book as a form of creative expression. The book presents a wide range of binding techniques & structure styles and methods to transform or create the pages through mixed media/collage, printmaking, and more. Step-by-step photos and complete instructions for each of the binding techniques and mixed media application are provided. Krause is a book artist, collage-maker and printmaker.
B3161. Eco Books / Taylor Eco Books: Inventive Projects from the Recycling Bin by Terry Taylor. 2009. 144pp. 9"x9". Paper $22.95. JNB Price $19.99
Forty beautiful and innovative bookmaking projects using recycled and green materials! They are clever, witty, fun, and constructed with established binding techniques. Egg cartons, beer cans, and cassette tapes morph into covers, while brown bags, coffee filters, and newspapers are transformed into pages. Projects include cereal box books, an exposed stitch book that incorporates cloth remnants, and a faux leather journal that re-uses your teabags. Includes how-to drawings, close-up detail photographs, simple stitch diagrams, and a gallery to inspire you.
B3203. Embroidered Books: Design, Construction and Embellishment B3203. Embroidered Books: Design, Construction and Embellishment by Isobel Hall. 2009. 128pp. 8.75"x11". Hardcover
This unique book's theme is using thread, stitches, and embroidery (by hand or with machine) to decorate books. The embroidery is used in conjunction with a variety of papers, fabrics, and a range of techniques to create pictorial or decorative effects. The book starts with a detailed section on sewing signatures. The first group of projects is for specific binding structures: posts/screws, Japanese side stitched, concertina (accordion), shaped books, carousel books, waterfall pages, and box books. The focus here is on the decoration, rather than the construction, of the book. The second group of projects presents decorative and illustrative techniques and materials: cocoon stripping, plaster of Paris, inkjet printing, glue sticks, metal relief foils, texture effects, marbling, working with waxes, using Grungeboard, using pulp papers. The author is British. Some of the materials mentioned in the book may, at first, be unknown to you because they have different names in the US and the UK. For example, grey board (UK) = chipboard (US).
B2429. Simply Bound/Moote Simply Bound: Beginnings in Bookbinding
By Cherryl Moote. 2001.80pp. 8.5" x 11". Spiral Paper.
For papercrafters & others wanting to start making books, this manual gives clear,precise instructions with step-by-step illustrations for 16 projects including meander books, lotus books, tea bag books, flutter books, & single signature. Bestseller.
B3085. Bookbinding Handbook / Sue Doggett The Bookbinding Handbook: Simple Techniques and Step-by-Step Projects by Sue Doggett. 2008. 192pp. 6.5"x8". Hardcover, concealed spiral.
An inexpensive, but good first book. Contains clear step-by-step instructions for making a variety of books, pamphlets, albums, journals, and diaries. This is basically a reprint of Doggett's Bookworks (1998, out-of-print), but in a different format. Though the book is considerably smaller, the how-to illustrations are only slightly smaller.
B3017. Bookbinding Techniques and Projects Bookbinding Techniques and Projects
By Joseph Cambras. 2008. 144pp. 8-3/8”x11-1/8. Paper
Presents history, tools & materials, techniques sewing & gluing, paper cutting & folding along with decorating and coloring techniques for the traditional craft of bookbinding. Specific instruction for 17 profusely illustrated, step-by-step bookbinding projects including standard cloth and leather covers, photo album, document case, stationery box and slipcase. Cambras is Professor of Bookbinding at the Escuela d’Arte I Oficis, Barcelona, Spain.
This book features book forms perfect for creating small editions of art books with your photocopier or computer printer.The book forms presented also make wonderful one-of-a-kind books. Detailed instructions for the book forms and tips to help you streamline the assembly of the books, which leaves you more time to create art. Standard size papers are used for most projects.
B3069. Magic Books & Paper Toys / Smith Magic Books & Paper Toys: Flip Books, E-Z Pop-Ups & Other Paper Playthings to Amaze & Delight by Ester K. Smith. 2008. 7.5x7.5. Paper
Step-by-step instructions for more than two dozen clever projects, including a classic crisscross magic wallet, woven heart baskets, pop-up maps, pocket movies, flip books, spinners, and cootie catchers. The finished examples show you that even these playthings for kids can become sophisticated in execution, as well as just things of fun.
B2393. Making Books that Fly, Fold.../Diehn Making Books that Fly, Fold,Wrap,Hide, Popup, Twist & Turn. Books for Kids to Make
By Gwen Diehn. 1999 (2006). 96pp. 8.5"x10". Paper.
New in paperback! This full-color step-by-step instruction manual includes projects that magically unfold like a map, contain cards that slip into pockets, include pop-ups perfect for celebrating all types of occasions, and tell stories on a scroll.
B3232. Leather Books / Karli Frigge Leather Books: An Illustrated Handbook by Karli Frigge. 1997. 90pp. 5.5x9.75. Edition of 415, with 370 in this binding. Paper. Offered elsewhere for $58.00. SPECIAL PRICE
This manual presents step-by-step instruction and drawings for two methods of binding. In each, the signatures are sewn over leather strips. In the first, the leather strips are pulled through a stiff leather cover which wraps around the book. In the second, the leather strips are pulled through boards. Part of the leather thongs are visible with each binding. The bindings use traditional binding techniques such as rounding and backing a spine and making a making a hollow. Includes 75 delightful instructional drawings. Karli Frigg is a binder in The Netherlands.
These bindings will not require a great deal of time to execute, and the final product is not only extraordinarily strong, it is quite lovely and rhythmical as well. - Karli Frigge, in the introduction.
A great bargain, not only for people who collect fine press books, but for anyone interested in the techniques of binding. - Sidney E. Berger
