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Handmade Books: A Step-by-Step Guide to Crafting Your Own Books | 
| Author: Kathy Blake
Creator: Ted Morrison
Publisher: Bulfinch
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
Buy New: $8.95
You Save: $16.00 (64%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 688737
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 8 x 0.7
ISBN: 0821222201
Dewey Decimal Number: 686.3
EAN: 9780821222201
ASIN: 0821222201
Publication Date: October 15, 1997
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Condition: library item in a perfect condition
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Product Description
From fabric-covered albums of vacation photographs to bound collections of children's drawings, handmade books are one-of-a-kind keepsakes -- and one of the fastest-growing crafts today. Now, with this comprehensive and lavishly illustrated guide, anyone can master the fine art of bookmaking. Starting with the easiest types of books to make -- scrolls and bound single sheets -- Handmade Books presents fifteen step-by-step projects, culminating with instructions for beautiful multisignature hardcovers. Here are message scrolls and diaries, albums and address books, scrapbooks and chapbooks -- a treasury of unique craft projects for anyone who loves books.
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 a must have April 18, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you are a beginner hand bookbinder like I am - and teaching yourself how to do it - this is a great book.
I had checked it out from the library and knew immediately that I wanted my own copy.
Great Book!!! November 5, 2002
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is awesome. It has beautiful pictures, clear diagrams, and tons of inspiration for any bookmaking project. It gives ideas for gifts (journals) and artists books.
 Light treatment for beginners January 29, 2002
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
This was the first book I bought for learning bookbinding. I liked the pretty color pictures and the way everything was kept simple. That is also the weakness of this book, as soon as you really decide to get serious there is insufficient information to do a professional job of any type of bookbinding and you end up going elsewhere for more information. But it accomplished my goal, and that is, it got me started in a wonderful hobby. And I still use the technique contained therein for making my own bookcloth and paste. Simple, easy, fun.
Read it, Make it January 31, 2001
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This book is great! There are so many great ideas of how to make the handmade books. I'm sure many have been thought of before, but this book makes sure to run you through each step in an organized fashion to ensure and strong stable book. This book would have come in handy when I was trying to figure out how to make an accordian book for my photography final. The only disappointment is that there are not more color photos. There are color photos of the DONE books, but no color photos of books in the process. I just think it would help me a little bit more. All in all, this is a great book with good ideas. I'm feeling inspired to make a new book now.
Not a good start for this beginner. January 5, 2001
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
I wanted to start making my own books, so I bought this one to help me. I had a few problems. Some of the steps in the starch paste recipe are unclear, so the first time I tried I got starch soup instead. And in the hard cover multi-signature instructions, the steps get very contradictory. They tell you to past the hinge onto the spine directly, then later you're told to paste down the sewing tape BEFORE the hinge.. which would be impossible if you had followed instructions up to that point, because the tape is sewn into the signatures right at the spine.I've managed to muddle through, but I still would not recommend this book to people just starting out in bookbinding.
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