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On the face of it - you would imagine that making a clamshell box ought to be a fairly straightforward exercise. I mean essentially its like a box that fits snugly inside another box and they are kind of joined together by a connecting piece of book cloth. So you just need some book board, some archival PVA and some book cloth. I imagine a ruler for measuring is going to be a critical item and a pencil. Of course you are going to need to establish what cubic size ( e.g. 4 by 10 x 8 inches, or 4 x 12 x 6 cm ) you are working towards i.e., what is it that you will be encasing so to speak inside this box you are making. By the way I work in metrics and so always use cm (centimeters). After you have measured the box item you might want to add a small amount of additional space so that its not too ridiculously tight fitting and at the same time not knocking about in a vast amount of empty space. For an artists
