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Handmade books
A board showing some of the handmade books I have made myself - and likely eventually to include some by other people too
Note use of old envelopes, grocery bags for inside pages, including fold-outs. Also brown corduroy cover from my old trousers. Oh, and portraits of the great men William Morris and William Cobbett.
A tiny book, containing a story and drawings by my daughter
What kind of books to make
I made a book in just five minutes, at a coffee shop, using only the materials in front of me...
Please come to my next book-making class, at The Idler Academy
What kind of books to make
Note use of old envelopes, grocery bags for inside pages, including fold-outs. Also brown corduroy cover from my old trousers. Oh, and portraits of the great men William Morris and William Cobbett.
Handmade handouts
As a slight change from the most boring possible option – distributing a printed, double-sided sheet of A4, after doing a public event – I recently decided to provide the same content as a one-off, mini-booklet...
What kind of books to make
Is it a book if the spine is on the inside?
What to do with the bits of paper you've been working on - the loose sketches, notes To-Do lists and used Diary pages? When I've finished with mine, I use my Filofax holepunch and stitch together a book of my work in progress. (The stitch is sometimes called Japanese stab binding.)
This book is brilliant - full of ideas for all kinds of handmade books.
A4 folded sheet mini booklet with paper cut pages
A4 folded sheet mini booklet with paper cut pages
A book made of one sheet of A4 paper from my Filofax containing watercolour drawings
A book made to contain (and thereby cherish) the post-it notes on which I wrote ideas relating to Roman Krznaric's Empathy Museum, at a workshop at the Royal College of Art.
