Friday, February 22, 2019

The Art & Craft of Handmade Books Review & GIVEAWAY

Have a story to tell? Make your own books with The Art & Craft of Handmade Books by Shereen LaPlantz. This packed guide contains written and illustrated instructions for seven book models and 25 patterns. It's a revised and updated reprint of work first published in 2001 by Lark Books. While there are prettier books, for substance this book stands the test of time. Learn step-by-step how to create a wide range of handmade books using a variety of materials, tools and techniques. The first project and a variation are shown below - the Concertina and the Concertina with a Text Book Wrapper. Making them involves measuring, cutting and folding paper. Successive projects build upon each other. Latter chapters focus on stitched or sewn bindings. See the complete table of contents below. Multiple galleries showcase contributions from more than sixty artists. Dover Publications released this 128 page paperback July 20, 2016. A Kindle edition is also available. Get your copy below!


CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

BASICS
Vocabulary
Glossary
Materials
Tools
Techniques

PROJECT SECTION

Concertina
Bestiaries
Formats
Concertina Gallery

Slit Concertina
Imposition
Counting Books
Slit Concertina Gallery

Star  Tunnel Book
Abecedaries
Making Tunnel Holes
Faux Postage and Artists' Stamps
Star Tunnel Gallery

Pamphlet and Running Stitch
Making a Hole Jig
Book Parts
Making an Explosion Page
Pamphlet and Running Stitch Gallery

Tacket Binding
Commonplace Books
The Dressed Book
Tacket Binding Gallery

Coptic Stitch
Botanical Books
Book Mapping
Coptic Stitch Gallery

Recessed Skewer Binding
Specimen Books
Embossing
Ephemera, Broadsides, and Catchpenny Prints
Recessed Skewer Gallery

Contributing Artists
Acknowledgements
Index
Colophon



The Art & Craft of Handmade Books is available worldwide at Dover Publications. Dover, Great Books, Variety & Value Since 1941. Check out their catalog at Dover Publications. Dover has generously offered to giveaway a copy! One winner will be selected at random. Open until March 10, 2019. Canadian & US addresses only. Good luck!




26 comments:

  1. Another great Dover book would be "The Art of Fresco Painting in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance" by Mrs. Mary P. Merrifield.

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  2. Hi Deb,another book I would like is the A Year of Stone Painting: 52 Mandala Designs to Inspire Your Spirit

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  3. Another super books to have would be "Amazing Origami Boxes."

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  4. A First Cookbook for Children would be lovely to read.

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  5. Another cool title would be the Animal Lore and Legend: The Wisdom and Wonder of Animals Revealed

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  6. I would love A Year of Stone Painting by F Sehnaz Bac.

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  7. Animal Lore and Legend: The Wisdom and Wonder of Animals Revealed

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  8. Any craft or cookbook for teens would be great. My daughter and I could do together! She is really into orgami and healthy eating right now!

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  9. I like fantasy world building!

    mia2009(at)comcast(dot)net

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  10. Space Cat Meets Mars soundsa neat

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  11. I learned anatomy and physiology many years ago. I would like to renew anatomy. The first time it helped to have a colouring book. Dover has a book "Human Anatomy Coloring Book" that would help.

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  12. I would like to have "A year of Stone Painting" as a giveaway next.

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  13. I know I would like a weaver's garden but The Art & Craft of Handmade Books is my absolute first pick. Have mastered handmade paper so this is next step.

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  14. I know I would like a weaver's garden but The Art & Craft of Handmade Books is my absolute first pick. Have mastered handmade paper so this is next step.

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  15. I'd like to give my nephew A First Cookbook for Children

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  16. Fannie Farmer Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.

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  17. a book I would love is ... Snowflakes in Photographs

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  18. I would also like The Berenstain Bears' Storytime Treasury.

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  20. I would love to receive ''Fantasy World-Building: A Guide to Developing Mythic Worlds and Legendary Creatures''

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  21. I'd like to read 100 Great Short Stories by James Daley.
    http://store.doverpublications.com/0486790215.html

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  22. I am interested in A Year of Stone Painting.

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  23. I would love a copy of Origami of the Sea and take it to the beach this summer.

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  24. I'm really interested in this book, think I'll buy it.
    I'm making a sensory book right now for my grandson but it's just going to be on notebook rings. I wanted to tell you about some books I made for gifts a couple of years ago. I took old mail order catalogs I had & first glue 3-4 pages together so that it would have fewer but sturdier pages,& then painted all of them. That took up some time since only 2 pages at a time could be painted. When I finally got them all painted the book was done but I was making garden/nature journals so then came the fun part. I had bunches of native flowers & leaves I had dried in my press so I got their journals started for them with several pages done with the plants & all info I had on them. Turned out really nice.

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