Making Memory Books by Hand * Kristina Feliciano

22 Projects to Make, Keep, and Share. This richly illustrated, step-by-step studio guide elevates traditional scrapbooking into a fine art, delivering clear instructions for designing, folding, stitching, and binding custom memory books, journals, and photo albums by hand.

The Story: Written by prominent design writer and crafting expert Kristina Feliciano, this celebrated 1999 volume transforms routine memory preservation into an intimate, fine-art canvas. Feliciano completely leaves behind look-alike, plastic mass-market plastic albums and pre-made commercial scrapbooks. Instead, she establishes a thorough, technique-first methodology showing that safeguarding family milestones, travel souvenirs, and personal heritage letters depends on mastering proper book assembly, paper choosing, and tactile surface manipulation.

The book takes makers, photo collectors, and fine artists through a vast landscape of bookbinding applications across its bright, heavily photographed pages. The layout organizes your crafting path into clear, self-contained project modules detailing accordion folding, accordion pleats, Japanese hole-punch bindings, and basic hand-stitched signatures. The narrative unpeels exactly how to incorporate alternative cover accents into your work, tracking precise guidelines for wrapping bindings in textured textiles, handmade twig spines, copper sheets, or vintage paper ephemera.

Rather than acting as a simple, repetitive recipe catalog for photo pages, this handbook serves as an encouraging companion to unlock personal artistic expression. Feliciano packs the chapters with gorgeous showcase examples from top paper artists, quick-reference tool kits, and smart archival tips designed to safeguard delicate paper goods and heirloom family photos for generations. Published as a premium trade paperback by Rockport Publishers, this enduring favorite remains an essential cornerstone for paper art, hobby, and home workshop shelves.

Perfect For: Papercrafters, scrapbookers, and mixed-media journalers looking for an uncomplicated, highly visual reference book to master handmade bookbinding; families eager to assemble unique heirloom gifts; and library collections anchoring their crafting shelves with definitive Rockport paper arts milestones.

Published 1999 by Quarry Books / Rockport Publishers.

Crafts & Hobbies / Bookbinding & Papercrafts / Creative Scrapbooking / Photo Album Design / Mixed Media Journaling / Archival Art Manuals