Fabric and Book Arts: Resources

Making Bookcloth – Wheat Paste Method:

• Experimental Art: Making Bookcloth
• Put down that mulled wine immediately. We are making bookcloth today.

Making Bookcloth – Iron-on Method:

• How to Make Book Cloth
• Making Bookcloth for Bookbinding – Heat-Bonded Method

How to Make Wheat Paste:

• Bookbinding 101 – Making Paste
• How to Make Cooked Wheat Starch Paste

Other Resources:

• The Art of Fabric Books: Innovative Ways to Use Fabric in Scrapbooks, Altered Books & More by Jan Smiley
• Fabric Art Journals: Making, Sewing, And Embellishing Journals from Cloth and Fibers by Pam Sussman
• How to Choose Book Cloth: Starched, Backed or Coated
  • Free Bookcloth Durability, Flexibility & Resilience Chart

 

From the 6/11/25 Book Arts Guild of Vermont meeting