I completed this binding in the autumn of 2020. The binding measures measures 236mm (height) […]
Category: Fine Bindings
The Time Traveler’s Wife Part Four: Tooling and Box
Once all the embroidery was complete the next step was to glue the leather to […]
The Time Traveler’s Wife Part Three: Onlays and Embroidery
With the forwarding of the book complete and the design established it was time to […]
The Time Traveler’s Wife Part Two: Date Stamps and Endbands
I left the last blog post with an image of the reverse of the sample […]
The Time Traveler’s Wife Part One: Design, Endpapers and Sample Board
It all starts with a sample board…well in fact that is not quite true as […]
The Bicycle Diaries #2
This copy of ‘The Bicycle Diaries’, is the second of two bindings I have done […]
A Sin of Omission
At the very end of 2019 I was asked by a client to bind two […]
“La Charrue D’Érable” (The Maplewood Plough) Part Five: Completed Binding
And so the binding was complete! I used a spare piece of the endpapers to […]
“La Charrue D’Érable” (The Maplewood Plough) Part Four: Embroidery and Covering
Finally the time had come for me to do the bit that I like the […]
“La Charrue D’Érable” (The Maplewood Plough) Part Three: Forwarding
The client wished to retain the gilt calf paste-downs if possible to include them within […]