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Handmade Decorative Books
by Sue Roddis

Publisher Search Press
Edition Paperback

Learn how to make flag books, star books, accordian books and more. Decorate them with stamping, collage, stitching and embellishments. This innovative step-by-step guide offers simple and challenging ideas and crafters will love the colourful projects and great designs. A practical guide containing all you need to know to create unique, decorated books.
Price: £9.99

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Handmade Books: Binding, Folding and Decorating
by Heather Weston

Publisher Search Press
Edition Paperback

From heirloom memories to unique journals, albums and altered books, or simple tag books for your kids - this book contains all the skills you will ever need to create handmade books. Explore the art of making books with this comprehensive collection of binding techniques and decorative finishes. Each skill is explained with step-by-step instructions and examples of inspirational projects. There is a range of simple binding methods to get you started, from saddle stitching to gluing and folding techniques.
Price: £12.99

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500 Handmade Books

Publisher Lark Books
Edition Paperback

Interest in bookbinding and the related arts has exploded in the past decade, inspiring artists to explore the unlimited possibilities of the form - and delighting collectors, crafters, and gallery owners. This new and provocative on-the-page gallery, richly illustrated with hundreds of breathtaking photographs, will appeal to that same large and discerning audience.
Price: £16.99

Bookcraft
by Heather Weston

Publisher Quarry Books
Edition Paperback

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. Each project begins with basic techniques and progresses through to thought-provoking applications of those techniques.
Price: £12.99

The Bookbinding Handbook
by Sue Doggett

Publisher Search Press
Edition Hardback

This is a comprehensive introduction to the craft of bookmaking. It takes the traditional basic skills of bookbinding and combines them with contemporary techniques which will enable every reader to create beautiful works of art.There is an exciting array of innovative approaches to this time-honoured handicraft, and many of these are sampled here, showing you the exciting forms a book can take. The projects will allow you to create books that are blank portfolios for inserting photographs, artworks, and specially chosen words, or books that are decorative works of art using the basic form as a foundation.
Price: £12.99

Cover to Cover
by Shereen LaPlantz

Publisher Lark
Edition Paperback

Creative techniques for making beautiful and elegant books, journals and albums. 300 illustrations and 87 colour photographs.
Price: £12.95

Handmade Bookbinding Techniques
by Josep Cambras

Publisher A & C Black
Edition Paperback

This is a handy guide to a wide variety of bindings (books, boxes etc.) and how to do them, and the decorative techniques (marbling, printing etc.) that can be used to embellish them. The book is filled with illustrated step-by-step sequences showing how to make the various bindings and lots of finished pieces which will inspire the maker. The book is aimed at the beginner but it would also be a useful reference for the more experienced craft person.
Price: £16.99

Books Unbound
by Michael Jacobs

Publisher David & Charles
Edition Paperback

This guide takes traditional bookmaking out of the box and into the realm of limitless possibilities. Crafters, scrapbookers and bookmakers will delight in the pages of this highly inventive and energetic guide that shows how to create books with never-before-seen effects. While most bookmaking guides focus on classic binding techniques, Books Unbound keeps the sewing to a minimum. Instead, it uses basic techniques to explore the creative potential of the pages and paper. Projects include: Step-by-step instructions that make these incredible 3D and layered designs achievable, even for beginners; Materials that are easy to find at any craft store; Templates for each design; Content that is completely original. Crafters will learn how to create pop-up designs, multiple layers, and special folds that are sculptural, multi-dimensional and extremely clever.
Price: £15.99

The Art of Bookbinding
by Joseph Zaehnsdorf

Publisher David & Charles
Edition Paperback

Price: £9.99

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