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Free Bookart Patterns

2026-01-16T00:00:00+01:00

In the past, you, the readers / users of my website have asked whether I can provide a couple pre-made patterns for bookfolding for you. Now, I’ve prepared a set of patterns for you that you can use to get started quickly.

How-to: Prepare a word for book folding with Inkscape

2018-05-23T00:18:27+02:00

Sometimes, the book art generator complains about vertical gaps between parts of your image. This is usually the case with text (names, meaningful words) that hasn’t been prepared for use as book folding pattern, because most non-handwriting fonts have gaps between the letters.

In this article you will learn how to get rid of the gaps, and of the warning message, by using a free graphics software for creating the image of the text that should go on your book.

Making custom book folding patterns becomes easier!

2018-02-01T00:16:52+01:00

Since the end of 2015, when the bookart pattern generator (and this website) went online, I have received feedback from book folding addicts from all over the world. Some of you wrote a comment to say thank you, some shared photos of their beautiful creations with me, many of which I got permission to publish on the website’s bookart gallery. And some were suggesting new features that would make it easier to create those wonderful works of art.

Thank you for all the comments! Reading these and seeing your works made me very happy :-D

One of the most-requested features was to prepare the preview image so that it can directly be used for folding your book pages, by just printing it out, then holding it to the page border, without having to read the pattern text, and completely eliminating the need to measure the pages with a ruler.

Creating Book Art

2015-12-10T02:20:00+01:00

What’s book art?

In various places, you can see those beautiful folded book art pieces (like in these instructables: Book-Art-How-to-Fold-a-Book-into-a-Word, Folded-Book-Art-Best-most-clear-Tutorial-available ) - and it seems you’d like to make your own one, with your own pattern, now!

This page will guide you how to accomplish this in an easy, step-by-step way.

Preparations

Choose a picture

Best practice: Keep it simple!

The simpler the image, the fewer pages are necessary to make a good picture and the easier it will be to recognize which object you folded into your book pages.

You need a picture which fulfills the following requirements:

A picture of a dark object in front of a bright background - preferably, a black object in front of a white or transparent background.
The picture must be saved as a png or jpg image file
In the picture, there may not be any vertical gaps. This means, that, if you drew vertical lines through all of your picture from top to bottom, there would not be any line which does not cross through a dark part of your picture. The only white vertical space is allowed to the left and right of your object.
There may be only few ‘holes’ in your object, especially if the holes stack vertically. I suggest having no more than 3 vertical holes directly above one another.
The object should not be very detailed. The simpler the shape, the better the result. Silhouettes or single letters work great.
The object should not be too wide - the fewer pages in the book, the thinner your object should be.
You must really want to fold THAT object, because… it’ll take a while. Even if my script spares you the work of preparing and measuring the picture, you will still have to measure pages and fold pages…. for hours on end.