The Essential Guide to Making Handmade Books

by Gabrielle Fox

Demonstrates the creation of keepsake books, journals, and albums using handmade paper, innovative bindings, and found objects. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1581800193
• ISBN13: 9781581800197
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Northlight
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.6" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

Great pictures

The step-by-step photos in this guide are absolutely fabulous. Literally each step of the process is shown in a separate photograph, which makes it very easy to keep on the right track and to check your work. I agree with some other reviewers that the projects in this book are a little more simplistic than in some other books and I actually chose to buy a different book (Creating Books & Boxes) and take this one back to the library. However, the simple nature of the projects in this book do serve to make the art and craft of making books feel within reach and I'd definitely highly recommend it to the beginner.

Nice with great directions

This books is full of visuak instructions that show each and every step for each type of book covered. There are some very interesting styles in here that are possible for any level of bookmaking.

the very best I have found

I have a few other books on this subject, but this by far is the most thorough and in-depth one. The pictures are amazing - step by step. I recomed it highly for beginers and even experienced users.There are some unique ideas in it! I can't say enough...BUY THIS BOOK!

Seductive!

This book makes even a defiantly non-crafty person like me want to plunge right in. I love books and intriguing treatments. This book offers the support needed to turn wishes into finished projects. The range of possibilities covered is broad enough to appeal to many different tastes. The Jacob's Ladder book is lots of fun, as the star book. The accordion album is a very attractive and manageable project and one of the most useful. This book covers basics like pamphlet binding, portfolios and slipcases. The instructions are clearly written and are supported by excellent photographs that really make it easy to understand what's supposed to be happening. And the Gallery of Ideas -- photos and descriptions of additional, more elaborate variations of each project -- get your mind cranking with the possibilities. Yummy. An excellent book -- not just for the bookmaking crowd, but useful for teachers also. This summer, my daughter attended a camp where they wrote poetry in the afternoon and learned bookmaking (much of it based on this book) in the afternoons, and the kids loved it.

Essential is the right word!

As a practicing book artist, and a teacher of many book arts classes, I have tested many books about making books. This is one of the best I have seen. Gabrielle Fox's Essential Guide is full of innovative and stimulating book structures, and the instructions are clear and easy to follow, with excellent diagrams and full-color photographs of the steps as well completed examples. The book structures she guides us through are simple enough for beginners, yet, as her examples show, are also sophisticated enough to be used by seasoned veterans of book arts. Highly recommended!