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book cloth
Categories Book Making, Tutorials

Making Book Cloth at Home

Making your own books is so much fun, but one of the things we need to do is make covers for them. In junk journalling,…

May 6, 2024November 21, 2024
wheat-paste-book-cloth
Categories art and home, Tutorials

Making Wheat Paste for Book Binding

Wheatpaste or wheat starch paste has been used since antiquity as a natural adhesive. It is cheap, quick and easy to make, and lasts for…

April 24, 2024May 25, 2024
make glue out of pasta water
Categories Tutorials

Make Glue from Pasta Water!

Oh yes, you heard me right – you can make glue from pasta water! So if you are in a bind, make a plate of…

April 4, 2024June 12, 2024
wabi sabi artist book elora viano
Categories art and home, Book Making

Wabi Sabi | Artist Book Flip Through

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, ‘wabi sabi‘ means: Relating to or designating a Japanese aesthetic or world view characterized by finding beauty in imperfection,…

March 29, 2024November 19, 2024
macrame bookbinding
Categories Mixed Media Art, Motivation

Combining Macrame and Book Binding

Being the person I am, my creativity ebbs and flows, sometimes pulling me in one direction, sometimes in the other. Recently, the pull brought me…

March 26, 2024
make a book cover from a plastic bag
Categories Book Making, Tutorials

Make a Book Cover from a Plastic Bag

Yep, you read that right! You can make a book cover from a plastic bag! Sometimes some shops still give out real plastic bags, and…

March 16, 2024September 17, 2024
paste paper with stencil
Categories Tutorials

Making Paste Papers

Paste papers are a traditional type of paper decorating, used mostly to make end papers. But they are pretty amazing works of art on their…

March 14, 2024May 25, 2024
Wildandfreeart Primary 2
Categories art and home, Mixed Media Art

Abstract Accordion Artist Book | Bright and Colorful

A while back I took a free online retreat called Collage Fodder School and one of the projects was to make painted papers using a…

March 1, 2024June 5, 2024
cats cradle binding wild and free art
Categories Mixed Media Art, Tutorials

Cat’s Cradle Book Binding Tutorial

Do you remember the old childhood game, cat’s cradle? I used to love playing it with my friends and my brother on a rainy lunch…

February 17, 2024June 12, 2024
Wildandfreeart Ephemeral 12
Categories Mixed Media Art

Ephemeral | Artist’s Book

Today I would like to share with you one of my artist books I created – I do enjoy having a play and exploring new…

February 13, 2024February 12, 2024

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