Studio 5 Book Arts

Sometimes I revert to the traditional approach to the use of gold leaf in my work. Gold finishing to the spine of 'The Rape of Masters...

The last student has gone home, her work well on the way. Now for my selfish time, when the benches are cleared and I can work. Commissions...

Last week I managed to complete the first run of the print project. The box has been made and is now ready to be exhibited. There are ten in...

As the post thudded to the studio floor one parcel caught my attention. Following on from the after dinner talk at the Society of Bookbinder...

Though I am going through exhibition hell I still have commissions to work on. One is a fantastic book with some superb illustrations. I hop...

After an uneventful train journey to Loughborough, only relieved with a DVD of Black Books and an assortment of food stuffs from M and S, I ...

After the frustrations of last week I manage to get on top of the print thing. Sitting on the bench are three finished prints. One week and ...

What a frustrating day. I have the topic, marginalia from an old French religious tome. Some ten pages are adorned with various hands, on a ...

After a long day Sir Patrick Spens is finished.Lots of layering of papers and leather, lots of gold leaf and fiddling around with bits. The ...

The Folio edition of Sir Patrick Spens. A charming single section text block measuring 11cm x 8cm, with engravings by Jane Lydbury. The main...

The new book is a pile of bits at the moment. Images will follow later today but please, do not hold your breath.

Finally Beyond Giving is finished. There is still a little work to do but the main work has been done. I still have to think about the box o...

With the blind tooling nearly finished I can begin to work on the panels. The panels are infilled with white leather and emulsified leather ...

The next step was to add more colour, again the leather has been hand dyed, this time in red. The swirls are worked with a number of applica...

The endpapers are set and leather joints in place. The next step is to work the doublures. Up to four layers of hand-dyed papers are layed o...