Bookforms

A complete guide to designing and crafting hand-bound books

By: Ana Cordeiro (Contribution by), Celine Lombardi (Contribution by), Sarah Smith (Contribution by), Elizabeth Sheehan (Contribution by), The Center for Book Arts (Compiled by)

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Hardcover | 4 February 2019

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With Bookforms, learn an array of traditional and contemporary hand-bookbinding methods from around the world from the instructors at the Center for Book Arts.

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?

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This book is amazing. The tools are explained... the parts of a book (its anatomy) are discussed... the types of adhesives used are covered well. Even the different types of knots that will be needed to secure the paper is covered. * GeekDad *

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