Open Directory - Arts: Crafts: Paper: Book Arts
See also: This category in other languages: - Reference site for all the book arts with tutorials, links, publications, galleries. Home page of the Book_Arts-L listserv. - Contains the entire contents of The Art of Bookbinding, published in London in 1897 and The Care of Books published in 1902. - Online exhibition showcasing illustrated books in modern foreign languages from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries selected from the collections of the Libraries of The Claremont Colleges. - Family owned full service bindery business based in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Sells bindery, digital, and custom bindery services. - Background material to the development of book printing, type and the printing press. There are sections on both the fine printing of the private press movement and experimentation of book art. - Provides resources for San Francisco area book artists, including a calendar, list of organizations, and directory of local stores and classes. - Examining a Renaissance Italian Manuscript in the Computer Age. - Publisher of rare and artistic books, collection of old printing machines and equipment, paper mill, typefoundery, exhibitions, educational programs. In English and Polish. - The yearly Book Arts Jam features the work of more than 50 book artists, zine publishers, letterpress printers, fine binders and printmakers. The Jam takes place every fall on the campus of Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, CA. - Contains photo-based bookworks and photographs by Canadian artist Peter Sramek, as well as his students and other artists. - Paul Tronson, A master bookbinder, restores antiquarian books, bibles and objects to period using original tools and techniques. - Handcrafted wooden-bound books and albums, some inset with an ammonite or Whitby jet. - Boxcar Press publishes letterpress printed books and broadsides. Offers printing and photopolymer services to meet the needs of artists, designers, and others who love fine printing. - A searchable site includes an online letterpress museum and glossary, free downloadable eps images, and a directory of resources. - Features the flower-shaped books the Bay Area Book Artists (BABA) made for a bridal wedding bookquet. - Paper and book making resources, news, supplies, information, tools, techniques, and artists. - Internet community of collectors, dealers, creators and lovers of the fine publishing arts. - A weblog by Lew Jaffe about collecting bookplates. Their design, history, and information about bookplates. - Bookbinding design and restoration of books as well as preservation and presentation of important documents. - Don Drake of Dreaming Mind creates unique handmade journals, albums, guest books, and appointment books. Creator of the True Step binding system. - Handcrafted notebooks, journals, and photographs. Hardcover books plus books with leather and wooden covers. Located in Bellingham, Washington. - Publisher of books and editions of French and English poetry. - A small letterpress printing, hand binding and publishing company. Publish limited edition handmade books and do custom printing, binding and portfolio case construction. - This site offers artists' books created by two contemporary visual artists based in Melbourne, Australia. - A gallery and shop featuring hand-bound books and other items created by gracie sparkles, a journalism student, bookbinder and printmaker from Ohio. - Handmade books and blank books, bound by hand in three styles (Japanese Binding). - Site highlighting the work, activities, and projects of a private press in the San Francisco Bay Area which focuses on letterpress printing with handpresses, unique editions, and hand bookbinding. - Handmade by Debora Dormody at a small bindery in Rhode Island. - A small, private press that prints limited-edition books by letterpress using a platen press and binds them by hand. Their books are usually illustrated, either with wood engravings or cuts, linocuts or line blocks, and are often hand-coloured with stencils - A gallery of installation, rebound, and altered books using a variety of materials and binding techniques. - Lark Sparrow is a private press dedicated to contemporary works of fiction and poetry. - Contents of The Printed Book by Harry G. Aldis Cambridge at the University Press printed in 1916. - Specializes in the restoration and repair of books. Also offers bookbinding, box making and blank books and journals. - Tips and projects for teachers, parents, and children. - Paper engineer, Mark Hiner, shows examples of his pop-ups and interactive books. Includes a short history of pop-ups and how to make pop-up books. - Website devoted to the history of what is described as "the first significant private press in America." Includes a biography of its founder, information on notable exhibitions and collections of Mosher Press editions, and other information valuable to collectors of rare books. - Fine letterpress printers serving the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. We print stationery, invitations and artists' books. - Handmade books and boxes made by book artist Joanne Kluba. - Art Conservation/Restoration for paintings, paper, books, and photographs in San Francisco Bay area. Artist's books and fabric art created by Peng Peng Wang. - An exhibition of artists' books from the collection of the University of Delaware's Special Collections Department. The web exhibit mirrors an actual exhibition on view from January 15 until June 9, 2002. - Priscilla Foster handmade books handcrafts fine custom scrapbooks, photo albums, wedding albums, baby books, writing journals and other custom albums. - Gallery of handbound artist and illustrated books. - A literary fine art press, publishes contemporary literature, poetry and fiction in hand bound, letterpress limited editions. - Conserving works in paper. - Being created by scribes in a scriptorium in Wales, the St. John's Bible will be the first handwritten, illuminated Bible in the modern era. - Features a series of artist books made out of ukuleles by Peter and Donna Thomas.
