bookbinding

DIY Japanese Bookbinding With Embroidered Covers

DIY Japanese Bookbinding With Embroidered Covers

By Andrew Salomone

Andrew Salomone

Artist, writer, and teacher who makes work about popular culture, technology, and traditional craft processes. http://www.andrewsalomone.com

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Have you spun a tale that’s ready for DIY publishing? Then go ahead and thread your needle and stitch your story into a beautiful book, like these elegant examples of Japanese bookbinding with embroidered covers by Anne of Flax & Twine.

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How-To: File Folder Blank Book

By Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox from Red-Handled Scissors is a maker of crafts, a lover of cats, an avid swearing enthusiast, a cross-stitch book author, and a general purveyor of quirk. She's also sometimes an irritable cartoon named Tiny Cranky Haley. https://www.redhandledscissors.com

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Turn cool file folders into pretty and useful notebooks with this file folder blank book tutorial!

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Books Printed with Complete RGB Color Space

Books Printed with Complete RGB Color Space

By Sean Michael Ragan

Sean Michael Ragan

I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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If you’ve ever used an image editing program, you’ve probably seen the RGB color space represented as a unit cube, with red, green, and blue on the three axes. Now an artist has created a physical representation of that model in book form.

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Bookmaking wth Jimmy DiResta, Today at Maker Camp (Noon PDT)

Bookmaking wth Jimmy DiResta, Today at Maker Camp (Noon PDT)

By Gareth Branwyn

Gareth Branwyn

Gareth Branwyn is a freelance writer and the former Editorial Director of Maker Media. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books on technology, DIY, and geek culture. He is currently a contributor to Boing Boing, Wink Books, and Wink Fun. And he has a new best-of writing collection and “lazy man’s memoir,” called Borg Like Me.

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Come meet our new MAKE video author Jimmy DiResta today at Maker Camp on Google+ (noon PDT, 3pm EDT). Jimmy will be showing us how to create our own hand-bound books.

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How-To: Mini Accordion Books

By Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox from Red-Handled Scissors is a maker of crafts, a lover of cats, an avid swearing enthusiast, a cross-stitch book author, and a general purveyor of quirk. She's also sometimes an irritable cartoon named Tiny Cranky Haley. https://www.redhandledscissors.com

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Ruth Bleakley is a very talented book binder. Luckily, her tutorial for making these beautiful mini accordion books is simple enough even for the uninitiated! Ruth originally made these tiny books as gifts for her advanced bookmaking students after a particularly challenging project, but you don’t have to learn coptic stitch to try it out […]

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