Fuck Yeah, Book Arts!

maryzen:

For a long time I was meaning to bring together and share my notes and tips from the bookbinding workshop this year. It seems like this is just about time to cover this one! ^_^

Topics list:

1. Simple booklet design.

2. How to check and fold the paper?

3. How to prepare the string?

4….

truebluemeandyou:

DIY Recycled Book to On the Go Mini Art Studio Tutorial from Crafts Unleashed. Detailed tutorial using lots of glue and staples and some machine sewing (that you could do by hand). For another book to sketch book tutorial go here. For more book clutches go here: truebluemeandyou.tumblr.com/tagged/diy-book-clutch and for more recycled book DIYs go here: truebluemeandyou.tumblr.com/tagged/books

DIY Japanese Ledger Binding (by beccamakingfaces)

DIY Tea Staining Guide (Free PDF)

Give paper, cotton fabric and wool felt a timeworn appearance with these handy tea-staining tips!

DIY Instagram Mini Album (by studiocalico)

myidealhome:

• DIY inspiration: invisible bookcase (via How to Decorate with Books)

DIY Postcard/Memento Booklet: Using Cross Flexagon Technique (by makinghandmadebooks)

Maybe you went on vacation and brought back picture postcards. Maybe you stayed home and a few people sent you picture postcards. Or maybe you just have a collection of them, like I do, that are overflowing their boxes. If you don’t mind trimming and creasing them a bit, four of them can be used to make a cross flexagon.

You can always add to the narrative and write your own notes, poetry, or prose on the backs or alter the fronts with gesso or collaged imagery.

DIY Cloth Book Binding (by makinghandmadebooks)

A useful guide for anyone wanting to learn how to make textile or mixed media books using basic slot & tab binding.

niftyncrafty:

Alchemy Bookends | Design*Sponge

The whole time I was looking at this I was just thinking how Pottery it seemed, and if the stones were red perhaps, it would do nicely as the Philosophers Stone. Not that there were piles of them.. but you get my thinking. 

A pretty sweet DIY all the same.

goldenwolfpack:

What you’ll need:

·A 50 cm x 100 cm styrofoam board
·2 cardboards (here’s where you’ll have to pick the color)
·Plastic (like the one you used to cover your school books with)
·Paint
·Permanent markers (OPTIONAL)
·A Knife

Instructions:

·Gif 1: Cut your styrofoam, if you have to. You can also buy two 50 cm x 50 cm styrofoams boards.
·Gif 2: In photoshop (or pixlr, or paint for all I care) create a new blank image that measures the same as you board and create your design.
·Gif 3: Print your poetry at your local Office Depot or something and paste it over your board.
·Gif 4: Cut the board with a hot knife.
·Gif 5: Paint the borders.
·Gif 6, OPTIONAL: Paste the cardboard over the styrofoam board and write your poem by hand (I did it this way). Go through steps 4 and 5 normally.