Customer Reviews

Expressive Handmade Books

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After reading several books on bookbinding, this is one of my favorites that I find myself going back to again and again for both instruction and inspiration. On the craft of bookbinding, the instructions are clear and there are a number of interesting structures to explore. This book also moves into the realm of book artist, with the author explaining how she uses her experiences to develop content for her books.

After making blank books for some time, it's exciting to be inspired to develop books where both form and content work together.

Definitely worth having in your library.

This book is so easy to use and it has such wonderful ideas. I was shocked at how easy it is to make a book. This is a great idea book for homemade gifts. I love it.

When I selected this book from my library database, I was particularly attracted to the word Expressive in the title. In my own artmaking, I access a good deal of intuititive direction, and have been expanding my painting and collage work into book formats. This book, however, is quite focused on specific structures, with thorough directions, illustrated steps, and photos of completed works. Sometimes, a book comes into your hands that turns out to be something you didn't realize you needed, and the project lessons in this book have been giving me that balance of technical knowledge, by suggesting formats and structures to house and showcase my artwork content.

Alisa's teaching style is clear and uncomplicated. And encouraging. In her own words: "The main thing is to begin. The next main thing is to finish. Anything can happen in between."

For purely inspirational images in modern book arts, I would suggest Lark Books, 500 Handmade Books: Inspiring Interpretations of a Timeless Form.

I own lots of bookmaking books and this is my favorite! I have completed many of the books in here and since I have taken 2 bookmaking classes, I am familiar with the terms etc. I don't know if it is right for the beginner but if you have some experience, it is the BEST. I highly recommend.

I really like this book. it is well laid out and the instructions are easy to follow. The variety of projects will keep me busy for a long time.

I'm planning on making quite a few of the books illustrated in this book, so I'm excited to see the fun things I will be doing.

El libro me ha gustado mucho, viene con instrucciones claras y dibujos, las fotos tambien son muy buenas

THis is probably a good book for a novice or for general technical information. Artistically however, i found it lacking in depth as far as the expressive aspect is concerned.

a great book full of ideas and instruction. helpful ideas about text production - buy it