https://vektorrascheln.de/2026-01-16T00:00:00+01:002026-01-16T00:00:00+01:002026-01-16T00:00:00+01:00Moinitag:vektorrascheln.de,2026-01-16:/posts/2026/Jan/bookart_patterns

<figure class="small left"><a class="imagelink enlargeable" data-lightbox="/photos/bookart_templates/patterns_preview_wide-o.jpg" data-title="Patterns overview (License: CC-By-SA 4.0 Maren Hachmann" href="/photos/bookart_templates/patterns_preview_wide-o.jpg"><img alt="Patterns overview (License: CC-By-SA 4.0 Maren Hachmann)" height="1091" src="/photos/bookart_templates/patterns_preview_wide-a.jpg" title="Patterns overview (License: CC-By-SA 4.0 Maren Hachmann (Click to enlarge)" width="1200"/><div class="enlarge"></div></a></figure> <p><em>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.</em></p>

2015-12-10T02:20:00+01:002020-11-28T00:00:00+01:00Moinitag:vektorrascheln.de,2015-12-10:/posts/2015/Dec/creating-bookart

<h2 id="whats-book-art">What’s book art?</h2> <figure class="small left"><a class="imagelink enlargeable" data-lightbox="/photos/bookart/artwork-w-owl-o.jpg" data-title="Bookart example: doctor's bag" href="/photos/bookart/artwork-w-owl-o.jpg"><img alt="Bookart example: doctor's bag" height="1200" src="/photos/bookart/artwork-w-owl-a.jpg" title="Bookart example: doctor's bag (Click to enlarge)" width="1600"/><div class="enlarge"></div></a></figure> <p>In various places, you can see those beautiful folded book art pieces (like in these instructables: <a href="https://www.instructables.com/Book-Art-How-to-Fold-a-Book-into-a-Word/">Book-Art-How-to-Fold-a-Book-into-a-Word</a>, <a href="https://www.instructables.com/Folded-Book-Art-Best-most-clear-Tutorial-available/">Folded-Book-Art-Best-most-clear-Tutorial-available</a> ) - and it seems you’d like to make your own one, with your own pattern, now!</p> <p>This page will guide you how to accomplish this in an easy, step-by-step way.</p> <h2 id="preparations">Preparations</h2> <h3 id="choose-a-picture">Choose a picture</h3> <p>Best practice: Keep it simple!</p> <p>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.</p> <p>You need a picture which fulfills the following requirements:</p> <figure class="small right"><a class="imagelink enlargeable" data-lightbox="/photos/bookart/good-bad-o.jpg" data-title="Requirements for a good image" href="/photos/bookart/good-bad-o.jpg"><img alt="Requirements for a good image" height="3715" src="/photos/bookart/good-bad-a.jpg" title="Requirements for a good image (Click to enlarge)" width="2500"/><div class="enlarge"></div></a></figure> <ul> <li>A picture of a dark object in front of a bright background - preferably, a black object in front of a white or transparent background.</li> <li>The picture must be saved as a png or jpg image file</li> <li>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.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>The object should not be very detailed. The simpler the shape, the better the result. Silhouettes or single letters work great.</li> <li>The object should not be too wide - the fewer pages in the book, the thinner your object should be.</li> <li>You must really want to fold <span class="caps">THAT</span> 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. </li> </ul>