Bound to be Beautiful

Bari Zaki has always loved paper. In her early 20s, she took a series of bookbinding and boxmaking classes at Artists Book Works. After working on custom projects for 25 years, she finally opened Bari Zaki Studio in 2015, a bookbinding studio, shop and salon in Chicago, IL. www.barizaki.com

• PrefaceIntroduction1 Tools, materials and techniques2 Buttoned-up elegant envelope booklet– Booklet with cover interior envelope-pockets and a central envelope3 A trio of enveloping techniques– A hand-folded envelope– An origami box– An envelope case4 Buttonhole-stitch binding– Softcover book with cover interior envelope-pockets and a window spine5 Intro to glueing happiness– 3 hardcover padholder-folders and accessories6 Chic Cambridge suite– 2 hardcover folders with a fabric spine, angled interior pocket and accessories7 A trio of concertina techniques– 3 hardcover origami-esque accordion books– Traditional accordion book with front window– Hinged drop-spine landscape accordion book with cover pocket8 Screw-post album with window– Binder with a front cover window and a screw-post spine9 Long stitch album with hand-folded envelopes– Hardcover album with a fabric spine, and 2 bound-in hand-folded envelopes10 Triptych of Coptic-stitch bindings– Softcover book– Traditional hardcover book– Multi-needle hardcover book11 Case binding– Traditional book with a pressed spine, head and tail bands and end-sheets12 Book of engaging pages– Book with 6 pocket pages, 2 three-panel gate-folded pages, 2 booklets13 Collector’s album– Multi-needle Coptic-stitch bound album with 7 hand-folded envelopesGlossaryResources and suppliersAcknowledgements