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Bookforms: A Complete Guide to Designing and Crafting Hand-Bound Books
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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.
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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
- ISBN:
- 9781631596056
- Publication Date:
- 2019-02-12
- Publisher:
- Rockport Publishers
- Page Count:
- 176
- Size:
- 10.32" l x 8.78" w x 0.73" h
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- Crafts and Hobbies
- Art and Photography
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- Assorted
- Design
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