Author: Tom Hollander Publisher: Schiffer Craft ISBN: 9780764358913 Category : Box craft Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
The 2nd edition of the classic offers even more creative box examples and time-tested traditional-quality methods for book-art and multimedia craft lovers.
Author: Mary Jo Hiney Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY) ISBN: 9780806912967 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 136
Book Description
Express your love for the playful, the romantic, the elegant, with these imaginative, colorfully photographed projects based on cardboard boxes. Round up a paint roller, tacky glue, craft scissors, cardboard, a utility knife, and some paper bags. Basic techniques for scoring, fabric-covering, laminating, wrapping, and padding, as well as some simple sewing and embroidery instructions, are all fully illustrated. Try your hand at the 21 gorgeous mix-and-match designs, including a bullion rose, a dwarf dahlia, a fluted rim, a gathered leaf, and other ornaments and decorative touches. Then let your imagination loose! Start with "For the One I Love", a heart-shaped box with silk flowers in shades of peach and rose, or "By the Sea" with its pearly curls of ivory ribbon cascading over eyelet lace. House special mementos in "Treasured Keepsakes", a domed box wrapped in a rusty ribbon. Or make a doll's seagoing wardrobe trunk, "A Trip Across the Atlantic". Whether they hold your own treasured baubles or special gifts for your friends, these beautiful fabric-covered boxes send a magic message.
Author: David M. Freedman Publisher: Taunton Press ISBN: 9781561581238 Category : Box making Languages : en Pages : 212
Book Description
Offers step-by-step instructions, illustrated by detailed bandw diagrams and photos, on how to make simple and more complicated decorative boxes. Chapters explain progressively advanced techniques and give instructions for projects using the techniques. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Benjamin D Rinehart Publisher: Quarry Books ISBN: 9781592532919 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 144
Book Description
Complete step-by-step instruction, full-color project photos, detailed step illustrations, diagrams, and tips.Creating Books & Boxes presents a new volume on book-making techniques by contemporary book instructor Benjamin Rinehart. Rinehart presents a comprehensive resource for creating basic book-making structures as a starting point, but then adds unique twists to make them a little more surprising, fun, and dimensional. The book includes all the basics (tools, adhesives, archival properties, cutting and terminology), through detailed and highly illustrated instructions and includes unique and special methods for finishing the pages. It covers adding elements such as paper dying, copy transfers, stamping, and paste papers. Sophisticated, beautiful, and original projects in a simplified and accessible presentation make this a perfect book for beginners and experienced book-makers alike.
Author: Duane Pasco Publisher: ISBN: 9780997614503 Category : Languages : en Pages : 52
Book Description
Until they became obsolete in the early 20th Century, bent corner boxes of great variety were widely used by indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. As they disappeared from use, so did knowledge and skills required to produce them.In 1964, the author of this book began a quest to recover this lost art. By 1968 he had rediscovered and mastered the traditional techniques of bent wood box making and in 1969 began teaching these techniques to native craftsman. By the early 1970s, bent corner boxes decorated with traditional two-dimensional designs became sought after items in the fine art market.In this book, the author tells the story of bent corner boxes and describes, with drawings, photos and text, the construction process and tools used. Illustrations by the author leads one through the steps of fabricating a bent corner container, from selecting the correct material, carving a proper kerf and steaming the wood to make the bent corners and the finished product.The book includes twenty color plates with examples of the author's completed and decorated boxes.
Author: Heather Luke Publisher: ISBN: 9780316913904 Category : Box craft Languages : en Pages : 128
Book Description
Cartonnage, the art of box making, is a craft which originated in France. With a minimum of basic equipment and some simple techniques, you can make fabric-covered boxes of all shapes and sizes as well as decorations and accessories for every room of the house: little pots for pencils, correspondence folders, concertina files, trays, picture frames or blotting pads. The boxes themselves can be compartmentalised to make specific containers for sewing materials, writing implements, make-up or cutlery.
Author: Lage Carlson Publisher: DIANE Publishing ISBN: 0788170910 Category : Book boxes Languages : en Pages : 232
Book Description
A revised & updated version of the previous 1981 volume, Boxes for the Protection of Rare Books.Ó Designed to meet the needs of book conservators, museum technicians, & curators in libraries & archives who require a practical method for the construction of protective boxes, which provide a safe method for storing, handling, & transporting library materials. Protective boxing affords a non-invasive, cost effective, & archivally sound way of dealing with large numbers of items or entire collections. Covers: simple housings; phased boxes; portfolios; double-tray clam shell box; book box with portfolio smaller/larger than the book.
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