Bookletisation
Making a blank booklet is one thing. Binding a book full of text and pictures and stuff is definitely the other, mainly because you need to get all your pages in the right order. Unfortunately, the...
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Second attempt
Inspired by the How To Bind A Book video (sadly not embeddable) and the books I bought, I had a go at my first hard-back pamphlet this week. I sewed two blank paper signatures and trimmed them square...
View ArticleBookbinding progress
I haven’t had much time to spend playing with all the new bookbinding-related toys I got for my birthday, but I have managed to get a couple of new booklets made. Here’s a look at how I’m progressing....
View ArticleArgleton video
Over on Kickstarter, they say that projects with an introductory video end up raising “way more money” than those without. Well, it has taken me a while but I’ve finally managed to get this all...
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Walpurgisnacht, the handbook
This hand-made tome is the kind of book I can only aspire to make! Created by Ross MacDonald as a prop for The House at the End of the Lane, a film by Steve Smith, this is a gloriously OTT book. The...
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Object of my desire: a ream cutter
The other week when I was preparing the book blocks for my most recent set of notebooks, I realised how hard it is to neatly trim thick blocks. These notebooks are about the same size as I think my...
View ArticleBookbinding Club – 6pm, 29 Sept
Inspired by the wonderousness of The Stationery Club, Ben O’Steen and I have decided to run our own Bookbinding Club. We’re going to get together at 6pm on Wednesday 29 September at The Lamb on Lambs...
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Last Wednesday’s inaugural Bookbinding Club, held at The Lamb on the wonderfully named Lambs Conduit Street, was a runaway success! Ben O’Steen and I were joined by about half a dozen others, and much...
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Following the threads of a tale
Maria Fischer has made a beautiful book where the illustrations are sewn in thread. She says: the book is designed as a model of a dream about dreaming. Analogue to a dream, where pieces of reality are...
View ArticleThe tragedy of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
I’m reminded by Simon Goode of the the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, a collection of translated poems by Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer, Omar Khayyám. In 1912, a version of the book was bound...
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Device for putting holes in book signatures
Whilst watching this video of John Carrera’s project to reprint the Pictorial Webster’s Dictionary, I spotted that he had a nifty little device for putting holes into his book signatures, making sewing...
View ArticlePlanning my next novelette: Queen of the May
It’s amazing how much you can achieve through creative procrastination. I finished up the first draft of my next novelette, currently titled Queen of the May although that might change. The...
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Just how long is a piece of string?
I’m in the process of planning my next Kickstarter project, which I’m hoping to have up early in March. This time, I’m trying to make sure that I really nail down my costs before I settle on my reward...
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Notebooks galore
I’ve been spending some time making notebooks recently and have finally got round to taking some photos of them. I’ve been using Chiyogami paper, block-printed Japanese paper that is very high...
View ArticleNotes on paperbacking fabric using methyl cellulose
For ages now I’ve been meaning to try the methyl cellulose (wallpaper paste) method of gluing backing paper on to fabric to make it suitable for bookbinding. Most fabric can’t be used un-backed because...
View ArticleBirth of a book
Just beautiful! Birth of a book from Lamartis Publishing House on Vimeo.
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