This illustrated guide presents bookbinding as an accessible craft. It provides a thorough grounding in materials, tools and techniques, and explores a variety of methods. For each of the seven basic book structures, a simple project is presented, and variations suggested.

This text provides easy-to-follow instructions for making all the major styles of Japanese bookbindings and traditional book cases.

Providing introduction to the techniques of bookbinding, this book guides readers step-by-step through projects for making a variety of boxes, portfolios, book covers, photograph albums, mats, and sewn and adhesive

This work is published to coincide with the opening of the exhibition gallery at the new British Library Building. This book provides an introduction to bookbinding and offers an historical overview of techniques, illustrated with examples from the Library's own collections.

Every year Penland, the innovative school where crafters from around the world come to hone their skills, offers a master class in the art of bookmaking that's simply without equal. This guide showcases ten contemporary book artists who have taught at the institution. It presents 400 photographs that highlight the crafters.

This guide takes traditional bookmaking out of the box and into the realm of limitless possibilities. Crafters, scrapbookers and bookmakers will delight in the pages of this highly inventive and energetic guide that shows how to create books with never-before-seen effects. While most bookmaking guides focus on classic binding techniques, Books Unbound keeps the sewing to a minimum. Instead, it ...

Meggie loves books. So does her father, Mo, a bookbinder, although he has never read aloud to her since her mother mysteriously disappeared. They live quietly until the night a stranger knocks at their door. He has come with a warning that forces Mo to reveal an extraordinary secret - a storytelling secret that will change their lives forever.

From measuring and scoring to folding and cutting, from tools for bookbinding to useful media for writing and image-making, this title provides information and includes a range of projects. It includes projects such as: accordion and flag books, including miniature volumes; side bindings, with cross stitching or laced edges; and sewn signatures.

An extraordinary collection of over 60 Art Deco designs by Pierre Legrain and Rose Aldler, two of the twentieth century's great designer bookbinders.

An illustrated manual that shows step-by-step the art and science of fine leather bookbinding. The author takes readers through the intricacies of traditional leather binding with the skill of a patient teacher. Every step is illustrated with an explanation. This manual belongs on the shelves of students, conservators, and binding historians.

Revealing how to alter treasured books through collage, paint, layering, sewing and more, this title details the creative processes behind the craft and shows how artists can come together to select a topic, set up a project and ultimately publish or display their finished collaborative work.

Interest in bookbinding and the related arts has exploded in the past decade, inspiring artists to explore the unlimited possibilities of the form. This title showcases a range from the intricacies of an exotic Ethiopian binding with a show-stopping open spine to others that resemble mysterious puzzle boxes.

A 'must have' book for amateur and professional book-binders.

This guide shows readers how to make beautiful and useful objects out of paper and cardboard: decorative boxes, exercise books, portfolios, books and photograph albums. It demonstrates all the basic techniques in step-by-step photographs.

Provides an examination of the basic techniques, tools and materials required to make handmade books and cards. Demonstrating examples from around the world, this book gives an illustrated guide to the many applications, from the simplest cards to advanced book bindings.

Teaches book repair and cleaning techniques, and discusses chemical treatment and archive preservation.

A novel set in Victorian London combining a heady mixture of sex, deceit, money, and law.

A follow-up to the popular Decorated Page , this title offers ideas for beautifying a journal, and features photos. It tells you about the wealth of contemporary supplies, from papers and adhesives to paints, pens and pastels. It also shows you how to create the actual journal from scratch, including a quick-to-complete Three Minute Pamphlet.

Here in one witty, instructive volume is everything needed to know about storing, cleaning, fixing, shelving, mending, oiling, mailing, dusting, pasting, binding, gluing, deoderizing and otherwise guaranteeing a long shelf-life for your treasured tomes.