Bound: 15 beautiful bookbinding projects

by Rachel Hazell

Overview

An accessible collection of creative bookbinding projects using different techniques for cutting and folding as well as stitches such as ladder, string of pearls, and chain. Projects include The Slit Book, Concertina with Pockets, and Multi-Section Softback, which can then be developed further to create unique and personal handmade notebooks, books and keepsakes that are not only fun and satisfying to make, but also make wonderful gifts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781804191057
Publisher:	Octopus Books
Publication date:	08/01/2023
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Drawing her inspiration from remote landscapes, typography, shorelines, flea-markets and remarkable literary cities, book artist Rachel Hazell takes people on creative journeys, making books and unfolding stories. Home is the city of Edinburgh and the small Hebridean island of Iona. With The Travelling Bookbinder, she holds bookart workshops across the world, from a palazzo in Venice to a library on Nantucket. Her online courses, PaperLove and BookLove enable people, regardless of location, to develop ideas, imagination and technical skill.

Editorial Reviews

09/17/2018
For Hazell (The Traveling Bookbinder), “making books is my way of making sense of the world,” and she shares a workable entrée into the art of creating contemporary bindings. To encourage bookmaking, Hazell promises that “by binding your own projects, you make a place for your own stories.” She introduces the required tools—bone folder, scalpel, mat—and papers, before explaining inks and threads, glues, and beeswax. She keenly describes her techniques, including inkery and stitchery (ladder, dash, chain), and then presents 15 projects that range in difficulty from the cut-and-folded slit book to the hardback, a capstone that calls on the skills developed crafting the first 14 projects and adds the classic kettle stitch. Susan Bell’s abundant photographs capture Hazell’s hands, making even complex instructions easy to understand. The result is an appealing guide for those bound to books—with or without words. (Nov.)

Publishers Weekly