Fishbone Folding Technique

My friend Sharon sent me these pictures of a book using the “fishbone folding technique.” She wanted to know if I knew how to make it. I don’t—do any of you? The photos are from here.

UPDATE: Instructions are available here.

Fishbone Folding Technique, book by Dorothy Wheeler

Fishbone Folding Technique, book by Dorothy Wheeler

2 thoughts on “Fishbone Folding Technique”

  1. Oh, I’ve never seen that, it looks very interesting. I don’t know how it’s done, but I’ll ask around and research, I’ll let you know if I find anything (also, hello 🙂

  2. This is a combination fold that combines the single sheet vertical 8-page book instruction (with the slit on the long fold) with half-inch increments between the “bone”sections”. Each bone section is the measurement of the prior bone section plus the half-inch. So the bone sections are 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5 inches wide. The last section is only a half bone that is used with a double pamphlet stitch to join the two bone strips to the cover. I was able to get six “bones” in my “signature” from a 36 inch long strip, grain long, of Arches Text Wove paper. It would be so much easier to show you in a diagram but comments don’t take images.

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