I found dozens and dozens of sites that had instructions for making your own flip book.  One of my favorites was done by reguitar squiggle, a young man who posted on YouTube.  He uses post-it notes to make his.
Here are some other links
WikiHow: Just the bare facts in text form, followed by another video which shows how to create a flipbook from loose paper.
Make: Bennett showed how he made a flipbook from some video he shot.
Fliptomania: Another informational site, with products for sale, including a flipbook “kit”.

Flipbooks?  Those funny little cartoons that were a cross between a comic book and a movie?  Or sometimes the flip part was down in the corner of the book?  Well, Flipbook.Info has all the facts on flipbooks that you’ll need to restart your craving for these fun little treasures.

They were extremely popular in the early years of the 20th century, but there are some folks who are still producing them today.  In fact, they’re pretty easy to make if you’d be interested in giving it a try.  I’ll rustle up a couple of instruction links for tomorrow.
In the meantime, here’s …read more

Shelly has published one of the most detailed and complete tutorials that I’ve ever seen on chain stitch binding.  I’m not sure if this would be considered a Coptic binding style or not (I think it is), but Shelly has photographed and stepped through each stage so clearly that I’m totally convinced that I can do this!

While you’re there, you also need to visit Shelly’s gallery, where you will spend some happy time drooling over her collages, altered books, doodles, and artist trading cards.  This is a mixed media artist with wide and varied skills!
Image: Cat Sidh

The newest issue of the bookbinding and book artist online journal, The Bonefolder, is now available for downloading.   This spring issue has several articles on bookbinding tools, including how to make some of your own.  There’s also a special feature on doing gold tooling and several reviews of exhibits and publications.

Here is a darling idea that is fun, easy, and FAST to make (always a plus in the spring!).  Greeting Arts shares the instructions, along with lots of great photos.
She writes: “Using pads of sticky notes, scrapbook paper and a few other supplies, I made one of these books for each of Rebecca’s classmates to celebrate the last day of Kindergarten.  It didn’t take that long, and I thought some of you might like the idea. ”

Yes, yes, yes!  And thank you very much.  Just in time for end of the year gifts.

Artist: Miriam Schaer
Website: Miriam Schaer
As I became involved with books, I began to study their history and forms. I discovered an ancient structure called the girdle book: prayer books worn by medieval monks, lashed to their belts, their girdles, so their prayers would always be at hand. I had a different vision. My girdle books would contain new objects of devotion, new prayers, contemplations. Girdles are binders, like notebooks, places to hold and keep stories, house ideas in structures that are used to push and mold the female figure into idealized and often unreal shapes. Working with …read more

Artist: Pete Ippel
Project: 100 Things to Enjoy
100 Things to Enjoy is a 50 page accordion book drawn in pencil and colored with Prismacolor on 150 lb. cold press paper. The total length when displayed is 50′. Each drawing represents essence of a particular moment or concept.

I love Pete’s bright and whimsical style!

Artist: Mychal Mitchell
Website: Iona Handcrafted Books
My story is one of blessings in disguise…back in 1992, upon graduating from Arizona State University School of Architecture and Design, I took off on an adventure through Europe…5 months into the journey I had my backpack stolen in the train station in Rome. My friend, Cristiano chased the young boy through the crowd to no avail! Gone were my camera, walkman, passport, money, plane ticket and several rolls of film I’d shot along the way…but most devastating was the loss of my journal!

Days later, in Venice, I was talking with a street …read more

Artist: Kate Black
Websites:
Kate Black
Flickr album
I fell in love with book arts in the mid 1990s, when I started self- publishing zines. My projects then were text heavy and bound in a simple saddle stitch or pamphlet binding style. Five or six years later, I started to make one-off books with experimental bindings that often included bolts and interesting hardware. One can only make so many of those books with dangerous spines before storage becomes an issue.

During college, I learned more practical & lasting binding methods, like coptic sewings. These were perfect for my sketchbooks –I often trashpicked half-used pads of …read more

Artist: Jennifer Star
Website: CreativeJournalWorks
Art and creativity have always been a presence in Jennifer Star’s life. The very foundation of her creativity and artistic expression is based on a spiritual relationship with the earth and universe, and a desire to share this with others.   She has found that healing of the body/mind/ spirit occurs every time she fills herself up with ‘creative food for the soul.’

Bookmaking has been creative food for Star’s soul for as long as she can remember. However, it wasn’t until the early 2000’s that she was introduced to the technical side of bookmaking. From …read more