book arts
Handmade volume crafts
Book arts encompasses the crafts involved in making books by hand—bookbinding, papermaking, printing, calligraphy, and illustration.
The term covers both traditional techniques and contemporary artistic practice, from restoring antique volumes to creating one-of-a-kind artist's books as sculptural objects.
She studied book arts at a letterpress studio downtown.
- marbled paperDyed sheets with veined patterns
- handmade paperSheets formed by hand
- colophonBook's production statement
- illuminated manuscriptsHand-adorned medieval book pages
- gold leafUltra-thin decorative metal
embossing · incunabula · ligatures · vellum · leading · quarto · chapbook · kettle stitch · hand stitching · letterpress printing · leather tooling · parchment · codex · watermarking · perfect binding · kerning · letterpress · marbling
book artsdigital publishing
Distributing content electronically
e-books · online publishing · digital text · audiobooks · electronic publishing
book artsmass production
Large-scale standardized fabrication
offset printing · factory production · print-on-demand · desktop publishing