And so the binding was complete! I used a spare piece of the endpapers to […]
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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 […]
La Charrue D’Érable (The Maplewood Plough) Part Two: The Endpapers and Doublures
Throughout the book there were numerous wood cut prints so I decided to try out […]
La Charrue D’Érable (The Maplewood Plough) Part One: Design
I was shocked to look back at my last blog post to see that it […]
La Prose Part Five: Finished Binding
OPEN BOOK NEXT TO BOX (ABOVE) It is always a wonderful feeling when a book […]
La Prose Part Four: Book Covering
The day I completed the embroidery was a great feeling, but the next stage was […]
La Prose Part Three: Embroidery
I marked out the size of the boards on to the back of the vellum. […]
La Prose Part Two: Structure
With this binding came a number of challenges. Having overcome the gluing and folding of […]
La Prose Part One: Recreation and Research
What an exciting project I have been involved in through my most recent bookbinding commission: […]