Synopsis

From heirloom memories to unique journals, albums, and altered books - or simple tag books for your kids - Bookcraft contains all the skills you will ever need.

This guide provides the essential ingredients for designing and making your own books, from simple binding and finishing techniques to complex complete products. Projects are designed to suit a variety of skill levels from beginner to advanced, and use a step-by-step approach to learning the necessary skills. Discover how to make books of our own, whether as a vehicle for telling stories, as scrapbooks, or as notebooks and journals.

Each project begins with basic techniques and progresses through to thought-provoking applications of those techniques. Each technique includes an example of a finished book that fully and beautifully uses the methods described by the techniques.

This book explores more experimental binding and page treatment techniques, and has a comprehensive gallery of ideas outlining the skills and materials needed to apply techniques often reserved for professionals.

Biography

Heather Weston has an MA in book arts from Camberwell College of Arts, one of London s leading art colleges. Her design business, Bookery, focuses solely on the book form, encompassing everything from stationery and corporate gifts to conceptual book art. Her work is sold internationally and her book art is held in private and public collections as far a field as Japan, Germany, the US and the UK.