Bound by Hand

by Erica Ekrem
Bound by Hand
Author: Erica Ekrem
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2018-10-29
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1454710845
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Create a lovely handmade journal that’s entirely yours, from the cover to the last word, with this how-to from a talented bookbinding author. Following the successful Bound comes this stunning collection of journals from designer and artist Erica Ekrem. Ekrem demonstrates how to craft 21 lovely Old-World–style journals, some using repurposed materials and found objects, and provides instructions for making accessories like tassels and adding decorative inking, stamping, and stitching. Each journal is designed for a specific purpose or hobby, and includes inspiring journaling prompts. Create a water-resistant book bound between two river stones, a refillable booklet perfect for a prolific writer, and a nature journal with a strap to throw over your shoulder.

Bound

by Erica Ekrem
Bound
Author: Erica Ekrem
Publisher: Lark Books (NC)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: CRAFTS & HOBBIES
ISBN: 9781454708674
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"Bound offers approximately 25-30 bookbinding projects showcasing beautiful exposed bindings. Classified in chapters entitled Vintage, Nature, and Leather, projects include a mason jar book, a seashell book, and a classic-looking leather-bound photo album, to name a few. Beginners will find plenty of entry-level projects to enjoy, while more experienced book artists will learn new ways to do old binding techniques. The Basics section and each project are illustrated with gorgeous, bright beauty shots and whimsical-but-clear illustrations. Ms. Ekrem uses her way with words and her talented hand at book arts to take readers on a little stroll into their own imagination (or their memory) with each creation"--

Re-Bound

by Jeannine Stein
Re-Bound
Author: Jeannine Stein
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2009-07-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1616735511
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A DIY book making guide that repurposes easily-found items into handcrafted books, perfect for gift giving. Re-Bound is a beautiful book on bookbinding with a fun green twist—all the projects use recycled and upcycled materials. This book shows you how to take everyday materials from around the house, flea markets, thrift stores, and hardware stores and turn them into clever and eye-catching hand-made books.

Bookforms

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Bookforms
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Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2019-01-22
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1631596055
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Brought to you by the instructors at the Center for Book Arts, Bookforms is a comprehensive guide for making books by hand with a focus on functionality in design. Written by the experts at the Center for Book Arts in New York, Bookforms presents all the instruction you need to craft by hand a comprehensive array of historic bookbinding styles from all over the world. Bookforms traces the functional roots of each structure, explains their appropriateness for various uses, and provides projects for making an essential structure for each style of binding. Topics covered include: Why books work: General bookbinding principles for functionality and what we can learn from the past What you need to know for planning a special book or embarking on an edition How materials affect function Bookforms tackles a wide range of projects for all levels of bookbinders. You'll see everything from sewn and ticketed blank books and traditional western codex book forms, to scrapbooks and albums, Asian stab-sewn bindings, unusual structures, and aesthetics/embellishments. What better time to dive into this venerable and unique hobby than now?

Bound

by Rachel Hazell
Bound
Author: Rachel Hazell
Publisher: Kyle Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-10-16
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780857835079
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In this accessible collection of creative projects, Rachel Hazell shares exciting paper crafting techniques to develop your bookbinding skills. After explaining the tools and materials needed, Rachel takes you through each project with step-by-step instructions. Different techniques for cutting and folding are demonstrated, and, once you are happy with the various techniques, you will then begin to bind your own books with stitches such as ladder, dash and chain. Projects include The Slit Book, A Concertina with Pockets and The Three-Hole Pamphlet Stitch, which can then be developed further to create unique and personal handmade notebooks, books and keepsakes that are not only fun and satisfying to make, but also make wonderful gifts. So whether you have already tried your hand at bookbinding or are a complete beginner, Rachel's knowledge and passion will inspire you to explore the many possibilities of bookart.

Japanese Bookbinding

by Kōsanjin Ikegami
Japanese Bookbinding
Author: Kōsanjin Ikegami
Publisher:
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2012
Genre: Bookbinding
ISBN:
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Bound Feet, Young Hands

by Laurel Bossen
Bound Feet, Young Hands
Author: Laurel Bossen
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2017-01-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1503601072
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Footbinding was common in China until the early twentieth century, when most Chinese were family farmers. Why did these families bind young girls' feet? And why did footbinding stop? In this groundbreaking work, Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates upend the popular view of footbinding as a status, or even sexual, symbol by showing that it was an undeniably effective way to get even very young girls to sit still and work with their hands. Interviews with 1,800 elderly women, many with bound feet, reveal the reality of girls' hand labor across the North China Plain, Northwest China, and Southwest China. As binding reshaped their feet, mothers disciplined girls to spin, weave, and do other handwork because many village families depended on selling such goods. When factories eliminated the economic value of handwork, footbinding died out. As the last generation of footbound women passes away, Bound Feet, Young Hands presents a data-driven examination of the social and economic aspects of this misunderstood custom.

Hand Sewing Clothing

by Louisa Sonstroem
Hand Sewing Clothing
Author: Louisa Sonstroem
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2021-03-16
Genre:
ISBN: 9781736305812
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For those seeking a slower, gentler way to make clothes, this book will serve as a guide to sewing clothing by hand -- without use of a sewing machine. Learn the techniques needed to stitch sturdy, modern adult clothing by hand. Ponder the bigger picture with several contextual essays, and then settle in for storytime, as you read a set of stories about hand-sewn clothes. Hand sewing clothing can be a radical act of slow fashion. Reclaim the democratic, accessible, ancient power of sewing that needs no machine.

Hot Pink

by Adam Levin
Hot Pink
Author: Adam Levin
Publisher: McSweeney's
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2012-03-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1936365960
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Adam Levin’s debut novel The Instructions was one of the most buzzed-about books of 2010, a sprawling universe of “death-defying sentences, manic wit, exciting provocations and simple human warmth” (Rolling Stone). Now, in the stories of Hot Pink, Levin delivers ten smaller worlds, shaken snow-globes of overweight romantics, legless prodigies, quixotic dollmakers, Chicagoland thugs, dirty old men, protective fathers, balloon-laden dumptrucks, and walls that ooze gels. Told with lust and affection, karate and tenderness, slapstickery, ferocity, and heart, Hot Pink is the work of a major talent in his sharpest form.