bookforms

Brought to you by the instructors at the Center for Book Arts,  Bookforms  is a comprehensive guide for making books by hand with a focus on functionality in design.

Written by the experts at the Center for Book Arts in New York,  Bookforms  presents all the instruction you need to craft by hand a comprehensive array of historic bookbinding styles  from all over the world.  Bookforms  traces the functional roots of each structure, explains their appropriateness for various uses, and provides projects for making an essential structure for each style of binding.

Topics covered include:
Why books work: General bookbinding principles for functionality and what we can learn from the past 
What you need to know for planning a special book or embarking on an edition 
How materials affect function
Bookforms  tackles a wide range of projects for all levels of bookbinders. You'll see everything from sewn and ticketed blank books and  traditional western codex book forms, to scrapbooks and albums, Asian stab-sewn bindings , unusual structures , and aesthetics/embellishments . What better time to dive into this venerable and unique hobby than now?