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Making Memory Books and Journals by Hand

Making Memory Books and Journals by Hand

by Kristina Feliciano, Jo Lethaby, Jason Thompson

Making Memory Books and Journals by Hand offers easy-to-follow instructions for more than thirty projects that connect and preserve life's important occasions and friendships. Readers will learn how to make personalized photo albums, travel diaries, wedding albums, portfolios, and dream catcher booklets using creative studio techniques such as wax resist, leaf printing, and plaster paper. The writer in each of us... (more)

Creating Books & Boxes: Fun and Unique Approaches to Handmade Structures (Paper Art Workbooks)

Creating Books & Boxes: Fun and Unique Approaches to Handmade Structures (Paper Art Workbooks)

by Benjamin D. Rinehart

Complete step-by-step instruction, full-color project photos, detailed step illustrations, diagrams, and tips. Creating Books & Boxes presents a new volume on book-making techniques by contemporary book instructor Benjamin Rinehart. Rinehart presents a comprehensive resource for creating basic book-making structures as a starting point, but then adds unique twists to make them a little more surprising, fun,... (more)

Altered Books, Collaborative Journals, and Other Adventures in Bookmaking

Altered Books, Collaborative Journals, and Other Adventures in Bookmaking

by Holly Harrison

Today more than ever, you can’t judge a book by its cover. Why? Because two of the hottest new trends in bookmaking are pushing the boundaries of what it means to write, read, and experience a book. This exciting guide explores the creative processes behind altered books when artists make their own distinctive mark on an already published workand collaborative journals in which many artists come together to... (more)

People of the Book: A Novel

by Geraldine Brooks

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March , the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish... (more)

The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri: A Novel

by David Bajo

Metaphysical literary suspense from a compelling new voice in fiction For most of his adult life—through two marriages and countless travels—the mathematician Philip Mazyrk has carried on a love affair with Irma Arcuri. Now Irma has vanished and left Philip her entire library of 351 books, five of them written by Irma herself. Buried in the text of this library—Cervantes to Turgenyev, Borges to Fowles—lay the... (more)

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