Fuck Yeah, Book Arts!

farewell-kingdom:

Boarding School is a brother sister team from Seattle & Maine. We find recycled wood and create beautiful finished boards which are bound into journals, books, and albums (via).

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….

gatzbcn:

This post is dedicated to those tools I consider essential for bookbinding: cutting mat, cutter, scissors, press, paper folder, awl, needle, ruler, wax and pliers.

See this post in Spanish: http://gatzbcn.blogspot.mx/2013/02/herramientas-para-encuadernar-tools-for.html

• Cutting mat: this…

Edgar Allan’s Poe ‘The Raven’ Binding (2012) by Richard Tuttle 

Bound in black goat leather covered boards, with feathered endpaper treatments to give impression of a raven in flight. Binding is 10” x 12” & is designed to be able to be displayed as a free standing work of art. 

Moth in a Box by Sarah Fawcett 

Mixed-media and occasional book artist Sarah Fawcett depicts the death of a moth, but through the medium of a box rather than a book this time!

A few weeks back, a poor little moth passed over on my back door step, and  I marveled at its beauty and wanted to preserve this little creature to admire. So I got making a little box for he/she from polymer clay.

I wanted to have a box that was not only open at the top, but the bottom too, so you can view him/her from underneath, so i cut a little window on the bottom. Once I did that, I placed some text transparency inside and poured Ice Resin until the box was full of this wonderfully crystal clear magic. The resin made its wings see through, with just the slightest of colour but with so much detail.

the59thstreetbridge:

(by bibliographica)

Crochet Sakura Blossom Wooden Journal by Tanja Sova

Anonymous asked: So, I'm thinking of making small, simple notebooks to possibly sell on etsy, similar to the smallish moleskin style notebooks. I already know how to do the binding, but I've been looking at notebooks similar to what I want to make on etsy and they all have rounded corners. I'm just sort of cutting the paper either with a paper cutter guillotine type thing or by folding and slicing with a bone folder. How are they rounding the corners and getting the cover to match the paper??? Love your blog! :D

Hiya! I think you can buy Corner Rounder Punches in certain crafts + stationary shops and online, although I’ve no experience using them, and I’m not sure if there’s any heavy duty ones that could punch an entire bookblock in one go..

Maybe you could possibly check the websites of any nearby printing/design shops, as they may have a massive punch/guillotine that could do a whole book, rather then having to individually punch each page’s corners yourself?

As for the rounded edges on the book’s cover, I tend to achieve the look by rounding off the greyboard myself using sandpaper, which isn’t too tricky! I’d wait to have the bookblock’s corners all rounded off first, and then measure by eye the angle they were cut, and simply replicate it on the cover’s last 4 corners, before wrapping it in bookcloth or leather. Good luck with your notebooks x

EDIT: I just received this information from jess-ange: 

Hi! In answer to the question about the rounded corners: there’s one called crop-a-dile i use that costs $25-ish. It won’t go through a whole book but WILL go through bookboard! Comes with 1/4” and 1/2” size corners.

Let’s Live Here by Jamie Lynn Schilling

Six thickly bound books make up this typical block of Philadelphia row homes, reflecting my interest in the hidden stories of my own neighborhood. In any community there is significance, meaning, and sometimes tension between who lives next to whom, much like books on a shelf. I use the book form as a metaphor, implying that there are stories here. Each carefully embroidered brick begs a closer look, an investigation of those stories. The altered books that comprise the text blocks vary in their content, though the narrative cannot be read from cover to cover. The stories of this community are found in the relationships between the books.

Vintage Photo Slide Journal (by thebiglittlelunch)

A tiny photo slide journal using vintage photo slides, and mini blue graph paper pages. On the front slide of this particular book, there’s tranquil ocean-and-beach-scene, and on the back, there’s a medical slide of a pixelated brain.