Thursday, September 15, 2011

Dissertation

All of my energy and mental control has been put into this. A MA dissertation. Due to strange timing issues I didn't end up at the binders in time. So I stared at some "velubinding" methods and concluded it was simply a post binding. Or in other words, a mechanized Westernized Japanese stab binding.
So I created a simple 5 hole binding stabilized with strips of mountboard along the spine with further stabilizing done through a 3 hole binding through the textblock itself. Fully satisfies my department's requirements: "bound securely and able to be displayed in a glass cabinet"

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Orchestrelle


cover is a 1920s advertisement for the Orchestrelle set upon a background of an 1800s manuscript of Ishtar


simple coptic

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Steamship


Cover is from an 1872 newspaper special of royal boats and their associated personalities. My favorite bookshop here in sheffield has tons and tons of these interesting old clippings and I now have a small stack of them waiting to be made into books


simple coptic

Friday, June 10, 2011

Night Sky



doubled over twisted link and kettle

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Let's Just Make It Work


would work well as a budget book cover methinks


doubled over twisted link and kettle

Monday, June 6, 2011

Trees in the wind


made with a friend, this is a closed spine book with various layered 3 signature bindings


it's nice end paper, no?

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Please




another twisted link and kettle

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Alice



background of nice gold/green brocade with a Mervyn Peake's Alice in the corner



Simple twisted link and kettle


ok, a confession. I've not really made any books for months...time, space, etc all conspire against me. I AM working on a massive autobiographical artist book though that is all crazy and ambitious and involves tons of turkish map folds...we'll see when that gets finished! haha.

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Totally


I love, love, love these illustrations


standard coptic

Monday, March 28, 2011

Get a Book from Me into Your Home!

SO! I've made an online shop through Etsy. I'm now in the internet-selling-my-books business!

click here!

Monday, March 14, 2011

Soaring Song


background is a map of Sheffield (Rivelin Valley, 1920s) with birds cut out of a 1800s manuscript of Ishstar


lately my bindings are lacking much creativity...simple coptic. but I tried out dyed, waxed linen thread (the so-called proper thread for this work) and all I can say is NEVER AGAIN

Monday, January 10, 2011

Doubt Less


cover from a Sheffield magazine


binding is a multiple distance coptic

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

curve


simmery silver cover w/ caterpillar stitch on cover and a modified leather binding

Monday, January 3, 2011

Angles


cover is this stunning iridescent paper


coptic modified into angles