Bibliocraft : a modern crafter's guide to using library resources to jumpstart creative projects

Bibliocraft A modern crafter's guide to using library resources to jumpstart creative projects

Jessica Pigza

Book - 2014

This text teaches readers how to locate library resources to bring their creative ideas to fruition. The author shares her hunting and gathering tips with creatives of all types, informing on how to access inspiring resources online and in person, such as historic watermarks and millinery instructions or Japanese family crests, both online and in person. She also showcases the work of artists who have collaborated with her.

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Subjects
Handicraft in art.
Library resources.
Published
New York STC Craft 2014.
©2014
Language
English
Main Author
Jessica Pigza (author)
Other Authors
Johnny Miller (photographer), Shana Faust (contributor), Sun Young Park (illustrator)
Item Description
Includes index.
"Featuring 20+ projects from celebrated designers who love the library"--Cover.
Physical Description
207 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 25 cm
ISBN
9781617690969
  • Foreword / Ann Thornton
  • Introduction
  • Finding inspiration at the library. Different kinds of library collections ; Finding the right library for you ; Planning your library visit ; Finding what you want at the library ; The world of digital libraries ; Recommended library collections ; A copyright primer
  • Projects inspired by the library
  • Appendix.
Review by Library Journal Review

Pigza, a rare-books librarian at the New York Public Library, connects her two passions-libraries and crafting-in this collection of book-inspired craft projects. Each project uses books and library collections (often vintage) as a jumping-off point, turning things as commonplace as marbled endpapers into a pretty sewn pouch or drawing inspiration from children's book illustrations for a fanciful child's dress. Photographs of the primary sources that provided ideas for the projects are incorporated, allowing crafters to see the "ancestry" of each item. Pigza has assembled quite the cast of crafting luminaries, such as Gretchen Hirsch (Gertie's New Book for Better Sewing), Liesl Gibson (Oliver + S Little Things To Sew), and Heather Ross (Heather Ross Prints), and these varied projects include everything from sewing and embroidery to papercraft. Copyright issues relating to craft making-a frequent cause of heated arguments in crafting communities-are concisely and intelligently covered, and there's plenty of material on types of libraries and ways to use libraries as a source of creativity and information. VERDICT Though bibliophiles and fans of libraries will be drawn in by the theme of the book, crafters who haven't visited a library since childhood will be thrilled with the wealth of talented artists whose projects are featured. (Bibliophiles will also be pleased that no books are harmed in the making of these crafts.) [See author Q&A, p. 74.-Ed.] (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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