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Winter Swap: The Orange Windmill
This journal was made from the hard covers of a discarded book from the series entitled A Series of Unfortunate Events. While the covers were in great condition, many of the pages had been abused,...
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Winter Swap: Sprouts Press Designs
This book stems from a lifelong desire to marry painting, printmaking and bookbinding. All the things I love! It was created in a series (the printmaker in me, I cannot help it!) and this is the...
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Winter Swap: Textured Expression
This petite journal subtly buzzes with contrasts. Most apparently, the crisp apple red pops beside the understated brown paper shimmering with light gold floral designs. The first five signatures of...
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Winter Swap: LinenLaidFelt
This little book is a delicate accordion that incorporates two different printmaking techniques and features a collection of mixed papers. The covers are printed with a gridded pattern using a...
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Winter Swap: MakingMyRent
I bound this miniature book necklace with smooth white leather. It closes with a brown leather lace tie, and inside are 120 tea-stained pages sewn with waxed linen thread. The endpages are white...
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Winter Swap: RoundtheWorldin80Pgs
This is a 5x7 album covered with a soft flocked paper from India. The album has 24 pages and nicely fits 4x6 photos with a nice border. The album was bound using a coptic stitch with a gold linen...
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Winter Swap: UsefulBooks
My recipient this time lives in Canada, so I was happy to make her a Versatile Travel Journal featuring a lovely map of her country. This modified accordion book is the most popular design in my shop....
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Winter Swap: Camille Riner
"Winter Walk" -- It may be March and spring in some areas of the world but at my house it is the time for the biggest snows. I made this miniature artist book to embrace the snows of March. The...
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Hallowe'en Challenge 2012
It's that time of year again. Did you know that Hallowe'en is the second-most commercially successful holiday (next to Christmas), and it's not even a day off!BEST is holding its Hallowe'en Challenge...
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Vote Now! BEST Zombie Award 2012
I hope everyone had fun coming up with some great ideas for our Hallowe'en challenge! Here are the entries for this year's Zombie Award. Check them out and vote for your favourite:1. Halloween...
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BEST Zombie Award Winner 2012: Doctor Frankenstein's Monster Book
All the votes are in (in fact, I forgot the check the results yesterday, so a few extras may have snuck in there!), and the winner of this year's contest for Hallowe'en themed books is Doctor...
View ArticleBEST Tutorials: Japanese Screw Punch by SeaLemon
Have you heard about Japanese Screw punches but wondered what exactly they are and how they work? There is a new video tutorial by our team member SeaLemon in which she shows you how it works and how...
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Spot On BEST Mini Books
Miniatures can be really fascinating. Viewers often sway between shouting "how cute!" and awe at the maker's skills. Of course members of the bookbinding team also make the most amazing small books!...
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Tutorial: Simple handsewn French headbands
I once wrote a tutorial on this handsewn French style headband with bead on the front; Originally I wasn't doing it with any public blog in mind, only my own, but I think it might be helpful and...
View ArticleBooks About Books
What is your favorite book about books? I must say, I for myself find it very hard to make a choice. I recently asked the question on the mailing list and most of the answers I got named books about...
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Bookbinding as a Handcraft by Manly Banister: A Book Review
This is Dennis from Kleiner Eisbar, a bookbinder, paper crafter, and designer. You can find me and my wife, Krissy, on Etsy, Facebook and our blog.If you're anything like me, you like to do things on...
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Blog Interview: papierdier
Welcome to today's BEST blog interview with Marjolein. She is located in Elst, Netherlands where she loves to create things out of paper including notebooks, journals and cards. She sells all her...
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Spot On Case Bound Books
'Spot on Case Bound Books' by buechertiger Classic beauty and craft: Enjoy these case-bound books by BEST members. Raspberry - handbound hardco... veterok $48.00 Love, Hardcover Journal susanholland...
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Team Member Kris interviewed on Rossi Blog
Three weeks ago our team member Kris from Scroll got featured on the blog of a US retailer of Italian papers, Rossi:Kris describes herself as a “maker” and a “designer.” She says, “When I was really...
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New Directions in Bookbinding by Philip Smith - a book review
Of all books on bookbinding and book art, Philip Smith's New Directions in Bookbinding has over the course of several years proved to be the most interesting one to me. It was the first book that...
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'BookbindingTeam in Red, Brown and Ivory' by Kris from scroll A collection showing the vast variety of interesting bindings and designs created by the binders of Etsy! Red and gold handmade journa......
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BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS: A review of "People of the Book"
For my "books about books" post, I wanted to take a brief break from bookbinding instructional books and instead write a review about a novel: People of the Book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author...
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Blog interview: Sprouts Press Designs
Welcome to today's BEST blog interview with Carolyn Eady. She is located in Toronto, Canada where she makes a beautiful variety of handmade items that she sells under the label Sprouts Press Designs on...
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How To Antique Paper - a tutorial by Jennifer of a Red Pumpkin Studio
Jennifer from A Red Pumpkin Studio (read an interview with her here, and find her blog here) makes beautiful antique paper. And she is generous enough to share with us her method:Making antique paper...
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Blog Interview: Veterok
Welcome to today's BEST blog interview with Veterok. Located in Vesilahti, Finland, Veterok makes all things book related - even some of the tools that are used! Educated as an Artisan Binder and...
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