This book was made for the Personal Histories Exhibition. It was not the book I first intended to make – I was going to use the Twinkle Story – however, I just could not make this book work. I wanted it to have a glossy cover but could not get any paper that satisfied all…
Rope Stitch with 3/4 Binding Just spent a lovely week doing Advanced Bookbinding for Artists at UWE, Bristol. I’ve wanted to do this course for about 5 years but circumstances conspired against me. I did my first course at UWE in 2006 – Basic Bookbinding – and intended to do the Advanced the following year.…
Book Art Object – Project I Now that the call out for the 3rd Project of Book Art Object has gone out and we are getting started I just wanted to write a little bit about my experience. I can’t remember how I found Sara Bowen’s post on Here. I think I got lost…
The first cut is the deepest… This post is long overdue. Just some photos of the making of the rubber stamps for my book – Nest Building Perils & Pleasures. This book was made as part of Book Art Object and is the second project for this group. In case you don’t know Book Art…
Through my job I was lucky enough to visit the Cardiff University Library, Special Collections this week. The Library acquired a collection of 14,000 rare and antiquarian books (including incunabula) in May of last year. I first heard of incunabula when I started studying bookbinding. I was doing a search for ways to do…
Paper Clay Book – Coptic Stitch Paper Clay Book Pages This book was about 4 years in the making, not because it was hard work but because I made the pages in paper clay first and had no idea how to bind them. The pages were made on a paper clay workshop during…
This is just an update on the progress (or not) of the book I am making for Book Art Object. I’ve finished all the content and its already for printing. I’ve managed to print it off (below) on Somerset Book paper which is really gorgeous. However, I am printing double sided and have had a…
I have already posted this on Book Art Object which is the Book Arts Blog I have joined, but thought I’d like it on my own blog as well, so people know what I’ve been up too! We have been set a project by Sara to make an edition of books based on this poem:…
In an ideal world I would have on of these beauties. Unfortunately they are frequently over priced because they are antiques/collector’s items. If their only use or value was use as a nipping press, you’d probably pick them up for £50. So in keeping with my motto “stop whining and just get on with it”…
Lightning Stitch Another ‘sewn through the spine’ binding. Very simple, the book contains 2 signatures. Making books is addictive, can’t wait to do my next one day course.