bookbinding

DIY Japanese Bookbinding With Embroidered Covers

DIY Japanese Bookbinding With Embroidered Covers

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

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

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)

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

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 Ruth originally made these tiny books as gifts for her advanced bookmaking students after a particularly challenging project, but you don’t have to learn coptic stitch to try it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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