Not only do you have to be a bookbinder when you are a bookbinder, but […]
Category: Embroidered Bindings
Lines
I am pleased to announce the completion of my most recent binding, a copy of “Lines: […]
British Birds, Part Four: Leather Covering, Box and Final Photos
Spot the difference in the above! As explained in the previous post, the reason for […]
British Birds, Part Three: Embroidery
Part three of this blog post details the embroidery I did on the British Birds […]
British Birds, Part Two: Sample Board and Onlays
The curlews, skylark and lapwing were each broken down into block colours in order to […]
British Birds, Part One: Design, Endpapers and Forwarding
No, I haven’t been super productive in the last month and made another binding, this […]
Binding the Kelmscott Chaucer, Part Eight: Completion
So the time had finally come where I could say that the book and box […]
Binding the Kelmscott Chaucer, Part Seven: Endpapers and Box
The text block was made up with pale blue endpapers at the start of the […]
Binding the Kelmscott Chaucer, Part Six: Covering, Tooling and Final Details
So the time had come to try and get the leather I had spent so […]
Binding the Kelmscott Chaucer, Part Five: Back Paring and Stage Two of Embroidery
And so following on from my last post, as promised more embroidery and more colour! […]