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Jeannine Stein teaches bookmaking Etsy night at the Craft and Folk Art Museum Los Angeles

I am so please to share info about one of my favorite events - Etsy Meet & Make: Craft Night at CAFAM here in Los Angeles. On this Thursday night you can make 2 of the cutest little books with author of Adventures In Bookbinding: Handcrafting Mixed-Media Books and Re-Bound: Creating Handmade Books from Recycled and Repurposed Materials Jeannine Stein. Don't believe me? Scroll down to check them out yourself!

Etsy Meet & Make: Craft Night at CAFAM
Book Making with Jeannine Stein
Thursday, April 4 | 7:00–9:00pm
(doors open at 6:45pm)
*Project Demonstrations at 7:00pm & 7:30pm
$7/ Free for CAFAM Members
(includes materials, drinks, and snacks)
In the CAFAM Courtyard

"Book artist Jeannine Stein will guide you in creating elegant, stitched books. Come watch the demonstration, then construct, embellish and personalize your book. Make new friends, peruse the galleries and more."

RSVP preferred to cafametsybookmaking.eventbrite.com

 

You won't want to miss this night of book making, after all it's taught by the author of two great books on book making:

Adventures In Bookbinding:

Handcrafting Mixed-Media Books

and

Re-Bound:
Creating Handmade Books from Recycled and Repurposed Materials

How to measure a book for a slipcover from Book Art Studio Handbook

If you like making boxes and containers for things, I bet you will love this tutorial on how to measure a book for a slipcover from Book Art Studio Handbook: Techniques and Methods for Binding Books, Creating Albums, Making Boxes and Enclosures, and More.

I think I can still find my drafting triangles from college? They were fluorescent orange as I recall!

More about the Quarry book:

Book Art Studio Handbook:
Techniques and Methods for Binding Books, Creating Albums, Making Boxes and Enclosures, and More

by

Stacie Dolin

and

Amy Lapidow

How to Make Books, Albums, Slipcases, and More

There’s nothing like making your own sketchbook, or wrapping a favorite book in the perfect homemade slipcase. And you can create it all yourself! Select the tools and materials you’ll need, master basic book-binding techniques, and practice your new skills on 12 eye-catching projects. Then explore the gallery of variations for more inspiration to make each book form your own. Whether you’re an experienced book binder or new to the art, Book Art Studio Handbook will help you take your books to the next level.

 

With Book Art Studio Handbook, you’ll learn how to:

 

- Set up your workspace or studio

- Choose the right board, paper, book cloth, and other supplies for your project

- Fold a textblock, make a sewing template, glue a cover, and practice other essential techniques

- Create albums: Imagine your photos in an Accordion Album with Frames, for example

-  Create books: How about a flexible Tacketed Book to customize?

- Create enclosures: From Slipcase to French Box

- Challenge yourself: Try your hand at an advanced project, such as a Travel Journal

Stacie Dolin is a bookbinder and consummate crafter located in Arlington, MA. After working in the silkscreen industry for a number of years, she moved to Boston to study bookbinding at the North Bennet Street School. She now teaches numerous bookbinding workshops and does independent binding and book repair. When not playing with books, Stacie knits, spins, and quilts, and looks for ways to integrate her fiber activities into her bookbinding.

Amy Lapidow is a hand bookbinder, trained through The North Bennet Street School and several other institutions including Rare Book School and CBBAG. She teaches through the NBSS workshop program, where she has developed classes on a number of bookbinding concepts. Her personal interest is taking historic bookbinding structures and updating them by using alternate materials and for contemporary uses. Her work has been seen in 500 Handmade Books and as part of the exhibit One Book Many Interpretations at The Chicago Public Library, where she combined a classic binding style with QR codes. She lives in Somerville, MA.

 

How to make a recycled candy box book

Over at Jeannine Stein's blog, Ink Stained Book Arts, she has an awesome tutorial on how to make this recycled candy box book. It is so extensive it is in two parts: Part 1 and Candy box book Part 2.

 Inside the recycled candy box book:

And if you need whole books about making books check out her two books:

Adventures In Bookbinding:

Handcrafting Mixed-Media Books

and

Re-Bound:
Creating Handmade Books from Recycled and Repurposed Materials

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Visit Helen Hiebert author of Playing With Paper at CODEX

Helen Hiebert author of Playing with Paper: Illuminating, Engineering, and Reimagining Paper Art will be at CODEX in Richmond, CA this weekend!

If you are into paper and handmade books this looks like THE event to go to!

More about Helen's book:

Playing with Paper:

Illuminating, Engineering, and Reimagining Paper Art

by

Helen Hiebert

Explore the world of paper crafts with this inspiring book! This guide begins with a section that covers everything about paper, including cool tools, folding and cutting basics, and fasteners and glues. The next section is filled with 20 fun-filled projects, including:

- One-sheet books

- Lampshades

- Clothing

- Accessories

- Hot air balloons

- Origami

You’ll also find an extensive gallery of artists whose work relates to and expands upon each project.

Take a page from this creative guide and start Playing with Paper!

Helen Hiebert is a Portland, Oregon artist who constructs installations, sculptures, films and artist books using handmade paper, thread and light to create transcendent experiences that alter viewers’ perceptions of time, space and form. She teaches and lectures about papermaking and lamp-making internationally, and serves as an adjunct faculty member at Oregon College of Art & Craft. Helen exhibits her work internationally, she is author of the books Papermaking with Plants, The Papermaker's Companion, and Paper Illuminated, and she is a regular contributor to Hand Papermaking Newsletter. Helen has an extensive network of paper colleagues around the world and her interest in how things are made (from paper) keeps her up-to-date on current paper trends. Visit her online at http://www.helenhiebertstudio.com.

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Dos-A-Dos accordion fold book from Playing with Paper by Helen Hiebert

I love making books out of single sheets of paper! This two directional accordion folded book is featured in the brand new book Playing with Paper: Illuminating, Engineering, and Reimagining Paper Art and it's completely cute! I bet it would make a fun Christmas ornament or mini journal.

Click on this page from Playing with Paper: Illuminating, Engineering, and Reimagining Paper Art to enlarge and read how to fold a two directional accordion fold book from a single sheet of paper.

More about the Quarry book:

Playing with Paper:

Illuminating, Engineering, and Reimagining Paper Art

by

Helen Hiebert

Explore the world of paper crafts with this inspiring book! This guide begins with a section that covers everything about paper, including cool tools, folding and cutting basics, and fasteners and glues. The next section is filled with 20 fun-filled projects, including:

- One-sheet books

- Lampshades

- Clothing

- Accessories

- Hot air balloons

- Origami

You’ll also find an extensive gallery of artists whose work relates to and expands upon each project.

Take a page from this creative guide and start Playing with Paper!

Helen Hiebert is a Portland, Oregon artist who constructs installations, sculptures, films and artist books using handmade paper, thread and light to create transcendent experiences that alter viewers’ perceptions of time, space and form. She teaches and lectures about papermaking and lamp-making internationally, and serves as an adjunct faculty member at Oregon College of Art & Craft. Helen exhibits her work internationally, she is author of the books Papermaking with Plants, The Papermaker's Companion, and Paper Illuminated, and she is a regular contributor to Hand Papermaking Newsletter. Helen has an extensive network of paper colleagues around the world and her interest in how things are made (from paper) keeps her up-to-date on current paper trends. Visit her online at http://www.helenhiebertstudio.com.