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Brilliant Cut and Fold | Cover To Cover: Creative Techniques For Making Beautiful Books, Journals & Albums | Shereen LaPlantz

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	• Cover To Cover: Creative Techniques For Making Beautiful Books, Journals & Albums Shereen LaPlantz Sterling, 1998 - 144 pages average customer review:based on 27 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Each stitch drawn in sequence

Detailed instructions accompanied by drawings on the same page of each stitch to be taken to bind a book, stitch varieties, binding paperbacks into custom hardbacks, creating 3 dimensional art work in book form plus invaluable pragmatic advice such as the safe relative distance from hole to edge and hole to hole, depending on size of book and binding type, as well as how many pages becomes too cumbersome to open or view with a particular technique.

Multiple suggestions follow each demonstration for expanding the technique shown, or varying the format to satisfy one's own preferences and prejudices. Ms. LaPlantz specifies infinitesmally small steps which make following the directions exceptionally easy. And she progresses from standard codex (covers and a spine) to remarkably artful constructions all the while being encouraging, enthusiastic and clear. She does not make extensive use of commoditized products other than printer paper for the book text pages, and recommends simple tools for beginning (needle, thread, cardboard, glue, paste, scissors) as well as explaining how to make one's own binding frame from an old hardback book.

Unhappily, her subseqent Art and Craft of Handmade Books was not as well edited as Cover to Cover, as you can see from her website which lists pages of corrections to the printed edition as well as including material edited out which was necessary for clarity, continuity and simplicity of instruction. She even includes bonus materials, photos, techniques not in Art and Craft of Handmade Books.

Cover to Cover is excellent, like having a mentor at one's side with years of experience guiding one's acquisitiion of binding skills.

Highly recommended.

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She made my mitered corners beautiful

I'm making a book with boards and a leather cover; I used LaPlantz's mitered corners method (Figs. 36 - 39, pp. 39-40), and they look great! I'm sold, she's my mitering guru. Thanks!

Brilliant Cut and Fold

Can't help but agree with all the five star comments that go before me, but my particular rave about this book is the section on making pages of a book from a single piece of paper simply by using the different techniques explained for cutting and folding. Bookmaking origami!

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Cover to Cover

This book tells in words of one syllable how to make actual books - none of the glossy 'altered-art books' here, this one is the nuts and bolts. It explains all the jargon of book-making in clear and concise language.

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Even a beginner can start right out producing uniquely charming and elegant journals, albums, scrapbooks, and more. Envision handmade books to hold your writings, poems, photos, and keepsakes. More than 170 photos to inspire, and hundreds of illustrations to guide readers through the basics of an almost infinite variety of imaginative styles.

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