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More Making Books by Hand Exploring Miniature Books, Alternative Structures, and Found Objects

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ISBN-10: 1592530745

ISBN-13: 9781592530748

Edition: 2004

Authors: Peter Thomas, Donna Thomas

List price: $21.99
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Description:

More Making Books by Hand is the perfect companion for anyone who loves books and wants to make them. This fully illustrated, step-by-step guide is great for beginning bookmakers because it thoroughly explains all the basic information with easy to understand diagrams and offers interesting projects that invite self-expression and experimentation. Experienced book artists will love this book because it's filled with a host of expert tips and techniques, as well as 12 unique book projects invented by the authors and not found in any other book on bookbinding or the book arts. These include clever variations on traditional accordion and piano hinge bindings, scrolling and doweled flap…    
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Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Quayside
Publication date: 11/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 9.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Introduction
Basic Bookmaking Techniques
Bookbinding Terminology
Tools
Materials
Basic Skills
How to Determine Grain Direction
How to Square Material Before Measuring
How to Mark Accurate Measurements
How to Make a Scored Line to Fold Paper
How to Cut Paper and Cardboard
How to Obtain a Feathered Edge
How to Choose and Modify Adhesives
How to Apply Glue
How to Press and Rub with Waxed Paper
How to Work with Cloth
How to Make the Bookblock
How to Make a Textblock with Accordion Folds
How to Fold an Accordion
How to Make Accordions from Single Sheets, Folios, and Other Accordions
How to Make a Textblock with Sewn Pages
Tips for Sewing
How to Tie a Weaver's Knot
How to Make a Four-Hole Stab-Sewn Textblock
How to Sew a Single-Section Textblock
How to Sew Multiple Sections for a Miniature Textblock
How to Sew Multiple Sections for a Large Textblock
How to Prepare the Textblock for Binding
How to Cover the Bookblock
How to Make a Corner
How to Make a Library Corner
How to Make a Mitered Corner
How to Make Panel Covers and Attach an Accordion
How to Make a Case and Case-in a Bookblock
The Projects
The Miniature Case-Bound Book
The Accordion Book with Pockets
The Case-Bound Fold-Out Accordion Book
The Nested Accordion Pop-Up-Fold Book
The Accordion Pleat Spine Stab-Sewn Book
The Case-Bound Pocket Portfolio
The Dowel Spine Portfolio
The Scrolling Book
The Flap Book
The Dowel Hinge Spine Accordion Book
Found Object Books
The Hollow Book
Glossary
Resources
About the Authors
Acknowledgments