As the market for handmade papers and stationery continues to grow, scrapbooks, photo albums, diaries and blank books made with natural materials have never been so popular. Putting a modern slant on a traditional craft, this title describes a range of simple bookbinding skills necessary to create unique and personal journals, notebooks, albums and portfolios, using a variety of binding techniques and different media such as wood, leather and fabric. An inspirational text, it also includes a gallery section showing the works of world-renowned professional bookbinders.
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Penguin Random House South Africa
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Höhe: 257 mm
Breite: 227 mm
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978-1-85974-178-8 (9781859741788)
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Angela James is a past winner of the Thomas Harrison Memorial Award for Bookbinding and is a Fellow of the presitigious Guild of Designer Bookbinders. She exhibits her work internationally and receives numerous commissions which have included the binding of four of the short-listed Booker Prize novels for their authors. Her work is in numerous private collections worldwide as well as the British Library and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Royal Libraries of Sweden and Copenhagen and universities in the United States and Australia. She lives in Osmotherley, North Yorkshire.
