A perfect book for wintry days or any day you have to spend in lockdown. A wonderful book on the Art of Papercraft with many inspiring examples for beginners and excellent challenges for intermediate and advanced papercrafters.

This is a BIG book of paper crafting. There is a lot of history and background to paper crafting, tools and techniques; which I quickly flicked through as I wanted to get onto the crafting sections.

There are some great crafting projects, I’ve really enjoyed making the paper votive lanterns and some of the pop up alphabet for birthday cards. There are a lot more projects that I will be trying.

Thank you Net Galley and the publisher for an advanced copy.

A beautiful and creative crafting guide that emphasizes technique over specific projects (without removing the projects all together). I love how colorful everything is and that each section has both pictures and illustrations along with the written instructions.

Honestly I feel like this book is in a weird position of not quite knowing who its audience is. The inclusion of inspirational 'fine art' paper projects with information about them is really interesting and indicates an adult audience, but only a small portion of the projects felt similarly sophisticated. A large portion of the projects felt much more junior in difficulty and in interest level. Many would be right at home in a Highlights magazine. So for me its hard to know who to recommend this to. Adults will be uninspired by the projects, but I think kids would be turned off by all of the art world sections.

While I really enjoyed this book and would recommend it to anyone interested in paper crafts, I was a bit surprised that so much was taken up with the history of papermaking. It was very interesting and I learned a lot of useful things from it but from the title and description I thought it would be slightly more weighted on the projects side. The projects themselves are amazing though! Well structured and the directions were very clear.

Thank you to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for sharing this book for an honest review.

I was surprised at how much information is in this book! It teaches you to make paper, the history of paper along with amazing paper projects. I loved the mini paper lanterns and have made many of them! Great read!

Not quite what I expected. Instructions and photos not overly helpful. I didn’t feel inspired to make any of the designs. . ARC from NetGalley.

I received this e-book ARC of The Art of Papercraft by Helen Hiebert through Net Galley from Storey Publishing, LLC in exchange for a truthful review.

Wow, I am really enjoying this book! Starts off with a history of paper/paper making, proceeds with tools used in papercrafting and then follows up with lots of cool projects. Most of these projects don't appear to be too difficult and they look impressive when completed! I don't think I will delve into making my own paper, but I will definitely try projects beyond the origami section projects, which I knew I would enjoy. Exploding cube? Cool!

Interesting facts about paper. The details on creating projects had too much with little demonstration. For beginners, this is a level a a bit too high to comprehend.

Especially during this challenging time of the pandemic, I am constantly looking for ways to stay busy in quarantine/social distancing. This book gives such cute projects to try which I have used as tools to stay in touch with family I am not able to visit as much. It brings a smile to their face to receive a hand-crafted papercraft I have made for them. Another fun aspect of this book is the bits and pieces about the history of papercrafts. This definitely gave the book a little more depth. Thank you to NetGalley and Storey Publishing for a copy of this book for an honest review.

I love papercutting and am tempted by origami and quilling, so was really pleased to pick up this book.

Its a lovely book to look at. It starts with a history of papermaking, which may or may not be of interest to paper crafters - I'm not so interested in the history although I enjoyed looking at the illustrations along side.. How useful the sections on paper techniques and tools are will depend on your level of prior knowledge.

The projects range from easy to much harder and the illustrations are beautiful to look at. Usefully the book contains some templates to get you started on projects. There's plenty to tempt your interest!

A lovely book, covering a lot of different paper crafts.

This beautifully crafted book about The Art of Papercraft is packed full of the history of paper, crafting ideas and details of how paper is made, the various weights and grains.
Paper as we find out can be made by hand or commercially in a factory, through various methods and processes.

The many suggested crafting ideas are folding, cutting, printing, painting, quilling and structure building just to name a few.
Offering many templates for these activities and projects we learn that paper is a material to be respected and seen as a medium with many options.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and highly recommend it to crafters and artists of all ages.

Thank you to Story Publishing and #NetGalley for the advanced ecopy of this book!

*I received a free ebook copy of this book from netgalley.com in exchange for an honest review.

I really liked this book. I think that some of the projects were really unique and creative. I liked that the section explaining papers and tools. I also really liked the templates. But what I liked the most were the artist highlights. In each section there is an artist that is highlighted in connection with the project or technique. It was really fun to have a project that is simple enough for a normal, newer artist, to create while being inspired by the amazing projects that can be done with the same basic technique. The things that can be done with paper are endless, and this book is a great one for giving a glimpse into some of those ideas, where they come from, and how an everyday crafty person can create basic art at a new level.

I am a paper crafter but have never took the time to read a book about paper crafting. I actually wanted to read this book to see if there were any new techniques that I could use on my artist trading cards. However, I was pleasantly surprised by this book! Not only does it provide projects and ideas, it also gives a history/background of paper crafting, techniques and even bios of artists.

My kids and I had a blast making the origami projects and I really enjoyed reading the history and bios - it was a very interesting book. (I even found some new techniques to use!)

Thank you to NetGalley for the advanced copy to use in my review. All opinions are my own.

This was a big book on the art of papercraft and I would not say its for beginners, other than the idea of it making them interested to look up a beginners book to try things out. This was a bit more historical than instruction wise and I was not interested in about a third of the book. This would be a good library book or for someone already into making paper at home to add to their own books.
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Thank you to Storey Publishing and NetGalley for this eARC!

I suppose I expected more from this book, but this was quite a simple book.

That's okay, though. This will make a good reference for people just getting started into working with paper and papercrafting.

5 stars, For a person who wants to be crafty

THE ART OF PAPERCRAFT by Helen Hiebert

This how-to book has something for everyone, from how to make your own paper, to the art of the things you can make from one, single piece of paper.

I especially liked the origami and pop-ups. Highly recommend it.

Many thanks to #netgalley for the complimentary copy of #theartofpapercraft I was under no obligation to post a review.

A book for those who enjoy papercrafts from easy to hard. It also includes a little history on the subject.

This book features a wide range of projects, as well as some great history lessons on the art of papercraft. Bright and vibrant pictures add some interest to the instructional pages.

Anyone serious about papercraft will find this book useful, practical, and a pleasure to read. Hiebert provides plenty of technical and historical information about paper which casual paper folders will likely skip, but which is gold for artists just entering the field.

The projects range from very simple origami to complicated sculpture, and are presented in a way that makes this useful as a textbook for someone seriously learning the art.

There are recipes for glues (the homemade wheat paste is particularly intriguing and something I plan to try soon), practical advice on paper, including how to determine the grain and weight, and, best of all, gorgeous photos of completed projects from artists as young as 11.

This will make a great addition to library art collections and to personal collections of paper artists.