The Complete Book of Bookbinding

The Complete Book of Bookbinding
Author: Josep Cambras
Publisher: Lark Books
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2004
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781579906467

A time-honored craft, bookbinding protects and enhances written and printed documents. Many of the diverse techniques of the improve a book's functionality and appearance are described in the these thoroughly illustrated pages.

The Book Block

The Book Block
Author: Rúben R Dias
Publisher: 0. itemzero
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2019-12-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9893300886

The Book Block is a manual of industrial binding techniques, the first in the Making a Book collection, which focuses on manuals for graphic book production. With the aim of elevating knowledge about graphic production among designers — helping them to produce better books and communicate more effectively with all those involved in the process — The Book Block brings together the 17 most common industrial binding techniques in 6 categories, exploring each one in detail, describing them and showing what is possible to do in this day and age. Conceived from scratch to be bilingual, in Portuguese and English, the book seeks to systematize Portuguese terminology in the printing industry, while providing the same information in the lingua franca of today’s global market: English. In an international context, with customers, employees and producers sprinkled throughout the world, this book provides the perfect tool for an effective communication. Developed by experienced book designers and bookbinders — Itemzero and Maiadouro — this book is a summary of decades of know-how, now easily made available.

Bookbinding

Bookbinding
Author: Franziska Morlok
Publisher: Laurence King
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781786271686

Bookbinding is a unique and essential reference guide for designers, explaining industrial bookbinding techniques with a focus on the design and conception of print products. Packed full of insights from the world's best bookbinders, it contains everything you need to know about folding, stitching and binding to create beautiful books.

Bookbinding

Bookbinding
Author: Douglas Cockerell
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2005-07-26
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0486440397

Considered by many bookbinders and librarians to be the clearest and most valuable exposition of hand bookbinding in English, this volume concisely covers virtually every aspect of the craft — from folding and collating pages, trimming and gilding edges, to preparing covers, designing and inlaying on leather, and creating clasps and ties.

The Art of Bookbinding

The Art of Bookbinding
Author: Joseph W. Zaehnsdorf
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-06-21
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780359743087

Professional bookbinder Joseph W. Zaehnsdorf offers his step-by-step guide on how to properly bind books, the materials required, and the period styles to choose from - with more than 70 illustrations. Designed for beginners who hold no more than a sparing knowledge of tool work, this guide offers a complete demonstration on how to properly bind a book. Readers are taken through the preparatory stages, through the acquisition of the right equipment, to the practical elements of trimming, beating, pasting and gluing binding to a book. A variety of period patterning styles are shown, their origins ranging from the Medieval/Renaissance period, to the Enlightenment and the modern eras. Although written for amateurs, early editions of Zaehnsdorf's guidebook met high demand among professional bookbinders and hobbyists alike. The uniform high quality of his guidance, enhanced by numerous practical pointers imbued by the decades the author spent binding books, resulted in wide appreciation.

Hand Bookbinding

Hand Bookbinding
Author: Aldren A. Watson
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2012-04-20
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0486132544

DIVExpert, illustrated guide to creating fine books by hand. Materials and equipment, basic procedures, rebinding an old book, more, plus 8 projects: dust jacket, folio, music binding, manuscript binding, 4 others. /div

Bound

Bound
Author: Rachel Hazell
Publisher: Kyle Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-10-16
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780857835079

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.