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Learn to COOK - Making Memory Books and Journals by Hand
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List Price: $19.98
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Manufacturer: Thunder Bay Press (CA)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 745.593
EAN: 9781571456243
ISBN: 1571456244
Label: Thunder Bay Press (CA)
Manufacturer: Thunder Bay Press (CA)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2001-09-01
Publisher: Thunder Bay Press (CA)
Studio: Thunder Bay Press (CA)
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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 will delight in learning how to hand-craft daily journals of all kinds, including garden, art, and recipe logs. An appealing and approachable guide, this book will help any reader transform a jumble of snapshots and notes into a beautiful collection of our most cherished moments.
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Summary: 3 books in 1: visual inspiration NOT instruction
Comment: Making Memory Books and Journals by Hand is actually 3 separate books reprinted as a single 304 page text: Making Memory Books by Hand, 22 Projects to Make, Keep, and Share by Kristina Feliciano; Making Journals by Hand, 20 Creative Projets for Keeping Your Thoughts by Jason Thompson; Making Memory Boxes, Box Projects to Make, Give, and Keep by Barbara Mauriello. Diverse visual stimulation by 3 separate authors is augmented by numerous artists who share personal journals as a motivation gallery. The book's primary value is visual; the text I found confusing as if sentences had been inexplicably truncated without subsequent proof reading and revision. It is disappointing that such a well illustrated artistic compendium should not be supported with equally well written explanations. For exact detailed "how to" instructions on bookbinding, buy Cover to Cover by Shereen LaPlantz: stitch by stitch drawn illustrations, photos and specific, easily followed instructions. Please see Shereen LaPlantz's website for her unfortunately sad experience with the editing of her final book which is apparently as garbled as this one; Cover to Cover is explicit, simple as well as encouraging, like being with a kindly mentor who wants you to enjoy bookbinding. Making Memory Books and Journals by Hand is for visual inspiration only.
If you wish instruction in Coptic binding: Making and Keeping Creative Journals by Suzanne Tourtillot 2001 128pp includes instruction for Coptic binding and sewn in headbands. In Tourtillot's book each chapter is a pair of artists; a journaler artist is paired with a bookbinder (Daniel Essig, Gwen Diehn, etc) who design and execute handbound a book according to the specifications of the journaler. Photos of the journals in process are photographed with comments by the journal owner. World class bookbinders incorporate personal items (grandmother's hair ribbon as book mark) with characteristics unique to each journaler. All contributors are from Asheville NC and associated with the Penland School of Craft.
If you want pure inspiration, the Penland Book of Handmade Books cannot be surpassed but does not include instruction.
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Summary: Not a good instruction book
Comment: This is a great book for ideas, but it doesn't give you a step by step on how to create your own memory book or journal. For the most interesting ones, it tells you some of the items they used to make it. If you already know how to create your own book, this is for you. If you are like me, and wanted a step by step, look for something else.
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Summary: a lot in here but not my favorite
Comment: There's a lot in this book and overall its pretty good but its not a favorite book of mine simply because the instructions aren't that detailed. Instead, there's more text around the artists who made the different samples and what the story is around the resulting book or box that they created. In some cases there are just pictures of finished products with no description of how to make it other than a description of what it is (e.g. "five wedge shaped pages with silk-screened pop-up illustrations). In sections where there are instructions it's a bit more useful but they assume you know things (like the blanket stitch). Overall I think you can use this as an idea book but not really as an instruction book.
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Summary: Interesting book but NOT for learning the basics
Comment: I don't recommend you buy this book if you're looking to learn the basics of how to bind books. Styles like coptic and codex are not specifically covered here in clear, easy steps. Instead, I have to go hunting for info and pull together a semblance of something useful from several of their silly (but creative) projects they've stuffed the book with.
Beginning bookbinder, don't be fooled by the description given for the book! You'd be better off searching for bookbinding information on a website such as Craftster.
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Summary: Inspirational and Artistic
Comment: This book is an excellent source of inspiration for those who like to fabricate blank books as well as those who like to write, paint, or sketch in journals. I know that I, and I am assuming many others, reach a point where insightful ideas are few and far between and it is hard to resume creating without some form of inspiration...this book provides new ideas for incorporating art into journals, ideas for different types of blank book creations as well as creating different embellishments for blank books. It also helps a writer or artist by offering tips and insightful ideas to write about as well as giving helpful tips to break through the worry for those of us who are perfectionists and worry about having a perfect and aesthetically pleasing journal. the only thing that this book did not touch upon to my satisfaction was book binding techniques, but ht einspiration and idea factor of the title was why I purchased the book. I highly recommend this book to those who dabble in book arts, both for the novice to gain insight on the amazing projects that can be created as well as the expert who needs a little push for inspiration.
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