Discover the joy of hand-binding with this inspiring guide from expert bookbinder Bari Zaki.
Whether youre new to bookbinding or looking to refine your skills, youll 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 Baris 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 Baris clear, step-by-step approach making this guide a must-have for bookbinders of all levels.
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Learn how to create a range of beautiful and unique hand-bound books and accessories.
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 Collectors album
Multi-needle Coptic-stitch bound album with 7 hand-folded envelopes
Glossary
Resources and suppliers
Acknowledgements
Bari Zaki has always loved paper. In her early 20s, she took a series of bookbinding and boxmaking classes at Artists Book Works. After working on custom projects for 25 years, she finally opened Bari Zaki Studio in 2015, a bookbinding studio, shop and salon in Chicago, IL. www.barizaki.com
