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Discover the joy of hand-binding with this inspiring guide from expert bookbinder Bari Zaki.
Whether you're new to bookbinding or looking to refine your skills, you'll find more than 20 stunning projects here to spark your creativity - from classic soft and hardcover books to elegant albums, journals and folders.
Learn how to create eye-catching details such as window spines, recessed collage covers, and intricate exposed bindings using the Coptic stitch. Explore a variety of formats including envelope-page albums and drop-spine accordion books with hidden pockets - perfect for preserving memories.
Each project is infused with Bari's love of paper as she walks you through every step, sharing techniques for folding, glueing, and stitching, as well as her go-to tools and materials.
Even the more advanced case-bound and screw-post spine books feel achievable with Bari's clear, step-by-step approach - making this guide a must-have for bookbinders of all levels.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1 Tools, materials and techniques
2 Buttoned-up elegant envelope booklet
- Booklet with cover interior envelope-pockets and a central envelope
3 A trio of enveloping techniques
- A hand-folded envelope
- An origami box
- An envelope case
4 Buttonhole-stitch binding
- Softcover book with cover interior envelope-pockets and a window spine
5 Intro to glueing happiness
- 3 hardcover padholder-folders and accessories
6 Chic Cambridge suite
- 2 hardcover folders with a fabric spine, angled interior pocket and accessories
7 A trio of concertina techniques
- 3 hardcover origami-esque accordion books
- Traditional accordion book with front window
- Hinged drop-spine landscape accordion book with cover pocket
8 Screw-post album with window
- Binder with a front cover window and a screw-post spine
9 Long stitch album with hand-folded envelopes
- Hardcover album with a fabric spine, and 2 bound-in hand-folded envelopes
10 Triptych of Coptic-stitch bindings
- Softcover book
- Traditional hardcover book
- Multi-needle hardcover book
11 Case binding
- Traditional book with a pressed spine, head and tail bands and end-sheets
12 Book of engaging pages
- Book with 6 pocket pages, 2 three-panel gate-folded pages, 2 booklets
13 Collector's album
- Multi-needle Coptic-stitch bound album with 7 hand-folded envelopes
Glossary
Resources and suppliers
Acknowledgements
