The text block was made up with pale blue endpapers at the start of the […]
Category: Butterflies
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! […]
Binding the Kelmscott Chaucer, Part Four: Onlays and Stage One of Embroidery
And so for some more colour!! The last blog post described how I went about […]
Binding the Kelmscott Chaucer, Part Three: Forwarding
From out of the red leather solander box that arrived containing the Kelmscott Chaucer, slid […]
Binding the Kelmscott Chaucer, Part Two: Design
The Kelmscott Chaucer is a big book, measuring around 440mm tall x 310mm wide x […]
Binding the Kelmscott Chaucer, Part One: Research
So, what have I been working on for the past 5 months? The commission of […]
News From the Bench
It has been quite a while since my last post (two months to be precise). […]
Butterflies and Moths
I recently completed a binding for the annual Designer Bookbinders exhibition entitled, “Covered”, that will be taking place […]