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Title: How to Make Books: Fold, Cut & Stitch Your Way to a One-of-a-Kind Book
ISBN: 0307353362
Author:
Esther K. Smith
Publicate Date: 2007-11-06
Publish: 2007-11-06
List Price: $25.00
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Hardcover
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Amazon Lowest New Price: $14.81
Amazon Lowest Used Price: $15.90
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1: Great How To Book for all levels
I'll pull out this book every time I want to make a book or journal. With this book in my library I'll never forget how.
Bev in Arizona
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2: Valuable for Readers Who Want to Expand Their Love of Books
Esther Smith's "How to Make Books," which combines warmly written narratives with clearly written instructions, has shown me how to bring my love of reading into the third dimension. I love that active reading forces self-reflection; however, bare words, in that they can always be contradicted, often confuse more than they help. Through folding and cutting Instant Books, and quickly filling them with compiled words and images, I can instinctively react to an author's idea without second guessing away from myself. Esther Smith's examples, alongside her encouragement to experiment, have helped me see myself more clearly. My eyes and hands are involved with words in a wonderful new way, and I highly recommend this book to other readers.
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3: The best of its kind that I've seen yet...
Full disclosure alert: I haven't seen every book-making craft book out there, but I have a few of the big ones, and this is the book I like best. Why? Simple: clarity and ease of instructions. I don't know about you, but a little too often I find myself reading through the instructions in a craft book going, "Okay, but how do I DO that?" Not so with this book. That really set it apart.
Plus, the author is just so charming! She packs plenty of stories from a full life as an artist into these pages; they're a fun read and very inspiring too. I was delighted to discover that she gives classes at Cooper Union in NYC. Her class is now on my to-do list.
With a bulging shelf and a hard drive full of patterns, I'm on a craft book diet right now, but I had to make an exception for this one because it's so good.
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4: Fantastic book for beginners
I had never made a book and needed to learn how, fast, for a class project. This book did the trick. The author clearly describes how to make several simple types of books (accordion, pamphlet, etc.) and also gets into more complicated techniques like Coptic binding. Her examples are creative and inspiring.
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5: Gift for a friend
Came in good shape and in good time. Wish it had more information on the coptic stich, but oh well. My friend enjoyed it.
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