Making Books: A Guide to Creating Handcrafted Books

Making Books: A Guide to Creating Handcrafted Books

2017 • 192 pages

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"From the London Centre for Books Arts, the internationally recognized, artist-run, open-access studio at the forefront of the book craft community, comes this definitive manual for creating hand-bound books. Making Books: A Guide to Creating Handcrafted Books offers beginners and advanced artists alike a comprehensive overview of the tools, principles, and techniques used in hand bookbinding. Through hundreds of vibrant photographs and clear illustrations showing step-by-step instructions, Making Books leads readers through six bookbinding projects, from pamphlets and concertinas, to multi-section case bindings, for aspiring binders to learn and master"--


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Logically laid out and presenting modular groups of steps from simplest (pamphlet) to rounded case (sewn hardback) bindings. Easy to follow and the design is pleasant to look at. This works as a very good ‘intro to bookmaking' guide.

July 6, 2022