These were the first three miniature books I made shortly after I started experimenting with bookbinding in early 1997. Sewn in four 8 page signatures with 3 hole link stitch, they are quarter reductions of the previous book. Bound in red bookcloth the largest is 2 3/16" x 2 7/8", middle book is 1 3/16" x 1 5/8" and the smallest is 9/16" x 13/16".
I have a section on my blog called Sales Inquiries (on the right sidebar), where people can request to purchase anything I have featured on my blog, or make inquiries about where and how to find them. This is the latest item winging its way to a lovely new owner. A brown croc-embossed A5 Aspinal…
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Scroll in a box This is another double-rod scroll format. The scroll is permanently bound inside a box where it can be rolled up in either direction to facilitate reading. As far as I know, there is no special name for a scroll in an box like this. Similar, but fancier, boxes are sometimes used for reading or displaying Qur'an and Torah scrolls. Peter and Donna Thomas' book, "More Making Books by Hand", has instructions for making a scroll like this.
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Bound Concertina, unsupported I had an example of a bound concertina with a supported sewing just a short time ago (Book 332) and this is now the follow-up book using the same idea of sewing signatures to the mountains of the concertina, but this time with no spine support.
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I fell in love with the above book a few months ago. It is made by supremely talented book artist Alex of AlexLibris. He originally made it as a showcase of his abilities but people have bought them. He can only make them during the summer because the paper is specially treated and dried in…
Make a Book Binding Cradle: Coptic book binding is a traditional form of book binding that has been around for thousands of years. Although it is fairly simple, there are some specialized tools you might find incredibly handy when binding your own books. In this Instruc…
I produced a letterpressed book for my final BFA project. It was exhibited in the Harold B Lee Library at Brigham Young University on May 9 - June 15, 2007. Wow. It's already been a year. Sorry some of the photos are out of focus. Someday I just might get around to reshooting them.
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I finally did the one remaining Crossed Structure binding on the list. This is the CSB Hidden. I have done two of these books now: one with a leather cover and one with a handmade paper cover. I found the paper cover worked better for me, probably since i was able to get more accurate folds and such. So the sections are sewn onto the D-shaped part of the back cover. The front cover is cut with an extension that folds over the spine and overlaps the back cover a bit. It has little windows for the sewing to show through and the D-panel on the back cover to poke through. The overlapping pieces on the front and back are then simply secured - I just pasted them into place. Cutting the front cover can be a bit tricky, requiring very accurate measurements for the various cuts. But overall, the process of making the CSB Hidden seemed simpler than some of the other CSBs. Here's the finished book, with the green apple handmade paper looking a bit better in the natural light outside...unlike the washed-out photos above. So I've worked my way though all of Arregui's CSBs. I am planning to revisit the CSB Solo since i think I'm not doing it quite right. But otherwise, let me see...I think the CSB Basic is my preferred style to make - I find it very flexible and can produce several different "looks" with that structure; however, the CSB Protective and CSB Linked are my new favorites so I want to do more with them now. Well, maybe not right NOW...but soon. I seem to have agreed to make several books for a local customer...24 books actually, to be ready by mid-December....so I'm kinda busy with that for now!
Sumptuous baroque hand made leather journal. An exquisitely rich detailed embossed book for your thoughts…. hand tinted leather creating an unique color gradient. The center of the front cover presents alligator textured leather within patina brass chains... Book edges are carved and gilded with specialist bookmakers antique finish. One of the comments from social networks: "It…
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I've only tried this a few times so recently I decided to practice. I didn't photograph the first practice attempts! But I got a few books done with decent results. Although I'm not sure that I do it correctly, this is how it looks: And since I was in chain stitch mode, I made some itty bitty books too, but without the endbands:
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Historical Model of a wooden board binding This model was made to learn a few historical techniques: sewing on split alum tawed thongs, drawn on wooden boards with beveled spine edge, vellum spine lining and leather spine covering, etc. Modeled after sixteenth century bindings. Since this was a model, I covered only half the spine with leather so that I could still see the sewing on one end.
There are always a few unfinished projects on the shelf. Usually, these unfinished projects are personal projects which get shelved when custom orders and other paid projects come along. I do, though, try to go back to the shelf of unfinished projects periodically, and finish things. This particular project was started in May 2011. At that time, I was taking a class at PBI and for the work we were doing in that class, we had a bookbinding plough at our disposal. I don't have a plough at home, so I decided to take advantage of this temporary access. A plough is used to trim the edges of a text block, to create very smooth even edges. It is necessary for certain bindings and it is necessary for fore-edge decoration. I decided to create a couple of textblocks and plough the edges so that I could bring them home and marble them. These two ploughed textblocks sat on the shelf of unfinished projects for almost two years, until February 2013. At that time, I blew off the dust, and finally marbled the edges of those two text blocks. I had never done fore-edge marbling before, but it worked pretty well. Once I had a marble pattern that I liked, I dipped the textblock and made a matching sheet of paper to be used later on the covers. I quickly moved the dipped textblock into a press. I did that with both textblocks and left them in the press until they were dry. Then the textblocks went back onto the shelf. Fast-forward to February 2014, and I finally found the time to turn the text blocks into books, with their matching marbled paper covers. Now, another month later, I finally photographed the finished books and shared the whole story here. A very satisfying finished project, for sure, even if it did take me three years.
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