Easy Book Folding Patterns For Beginners

What you need to fold your own book a sharp preferably retractable pencil a 30 cm ruler with mm markings my patterns are always in mm a hardback book minimum 21cm tall and with enough pages to fit your pattern a bone folder or something to help give you sharp creases a calculator yes that s right i said a calculator.

Easy book folding patterns for beginners. Then fold each page twice on the marks you made in the previous step like you can see in the second and third image. Let your creative idea flourish. For the beginner it might be a little bit difficult.

These will be your folding guides. Quarantine is the perfect time to craft and clear out your bookshelf so why not do both with some free book folding patterns. That s one of the great things about book folding.

Easy to follow pdf patterns with measurements. You just need more patience and persistence to change a book into a piece of art. Take a pencil and with your book closed make a mark across all the pages about halfway between the spine of the book and the edge of the book.

As promised here s the seven part tutorial a book folding course. Please comment with any questions. This the easiest to follow tutorial on youtube of how to make any patterns for the art of book folding.

Place the book in front of you like in the first image of this step. Once you have this knowledge it s a very easy craft to get involved with. Place the template in the book behind the first page that you want to fold.

The book is like your canvas and the template is like the brush. We finally added our new free book folding pattern section to our site. Do the same on the bottom of the page.