I've been doing some poking around online to see if I can find some other good sites on book arts/binding that will help give me some ideas about how I want to structure my site and also provide some good external link references. A lot of the sites I've come across are very informative, but not necessarily appealing. A good example of this is
aboutbookbinding.com. It has LOTS of information (several free entire online books on binding!) but it was kind of boring to look at and a lot of the instructions are hard to follow because there aren't a lot of pictures. The
Bookbinding for Beginners part of that site was a little better because it had diagrams, but I would like to have step by step photographs on my site. This
book assembly photo-journal on livejournal and this
bookbinding: start to finish set on flickr are closer to what I'm thinking I'd like to do. Here's another excellent
instructional article on binding from a site by Brian Sawyer.
Some of the major sections I think I would like to have on my page would be
- Materials
- Basic book forms
- Paste paper
- Folding techniques
- Concertina
- Case Binding
These are just a few rough ideas, but hopefully this will give me a good start.
1 comment:
I really like the idea of doing a book binding website. This is one of those arts I would love to take a class on, but I think a DYI website would work well.
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