Book Structures 2 - Creative Designs
Concertina, Pamphlets, Folded, Slot & Tab, Piano Hinge
Venetian Blind with Woven Threads
Extra threads are woven through the pages down the sides to stabilise the board pages.
See Artist Books page 2 for more images of book content.
Concertina with Drawstring
A variation on Fan Leaf or Venetian Blind Book
Fishbone structure folded book
fishbone using watercoloured tissue and graduated length pages making fan shape
fishbone using topo maps and same length pages like fishbone
fishbone using printed tissue with graduated length pages like feather
Chinese Thread Book
Historic design for keeping sewing threads organised. On the base there is a rectangular and two square compartments. When these are folded down, there are four smaller twist boxes on top. A card cover folder closes the flattened boxes.
Piano Hinge Binding
Using skewers as the sticks to slide between slots on the page folds, to link the pages into a book form - a textile sampler. Machine stitching onto card pages. Skewers create space for bulky page content and still allow book to close.
Piano Hinge with skewers: exploring French Knot embellishments on linocut printed fabric, ink hand colouring; leather strips with machine stitching.
Toothpick Piano Hinge
Hand-written calligraphy lettering on Zeta paper wrapped around the toothpicks and secured through slots in the paper.
A sculptural piece with incredible fluidity and movement.
Australian flat style reverse piano hinge
“Home” book
A house-shaped book with interlocking pages. Windows that show through to the page inside. No gluing or stitching.
Japanese Stab Binding
Possibly the easiest type of stitching, but does not open out very well. Intricate designs increase the possibilities.
japanese stab hemp leaf binding
Japanese stab tortoise shell binding
Japanese stab binding original design stitching
Soft Cover Books with Exposed stitching
The number of threads is determined by the number of signatures; there are many patterns.
soft cover stitched books with varying numbers of signatures inside
rope (pink thread on blue card), knotted (blue thread on maroon card)
Double Signature Notebook
western codex binding
skewer spine (rolled flax rod)
french doors double spine codex binding
jacobs ladder book
jacobs ladder book that opens from one side forever
Scroll Book using japanese stab binding and rolled flax leaves
folded book form
more complex folded book form from one sheet of paper
Concertina Binding
The simplest binding using glue rather than stitching; the back is on view as well and deserves content!
concertina inside view
concertina inside view
concertina covers and reverse view with drawings
concertina covers and reverse view
concertina with shaped card and pages themed on the big top
double concertina structure (recycling old discarded prints)
Star Binding
Star/Concertina Binding
Three intriguing structures to display miniature prints: hinged gallery concertina, framed concertina and stitched strips concertina.
Hinged gallery concertina 1
framed concertina 1
hinged gallery concertina 2
framed concertina 2
hinged gallery concertina 3
stitched strips concertina
Hinged gallery concertina 4
stitched strips concertina spine
Gallery Books for Photos
Wrapped Gallery Book closed
wrapped gallery book open showing three photo pages
gallery book triple layer
Gallery book triple layer spread view
The concertina spine allows the prints or photos attached to the spine folds to be opened out for static display