Studio 5 Book Arts

Both volumes finished. End papers and doublers.

The gold leaf was applied to the pre dyed surface of the leather (on the book) and worked over with warm tools. The design is fluid, free ha...

The surface of the leather has been worked over with a very fine silicon carbide paper and lots of small pieces of gold leaf have been appli...

A OUTRANCE is, at last, finished. Following a bout of some detailed stuff on the book one of the students took this very charming image of ...

Now that the final sanding has been done to the boards and spine of the book I can turn my attention to the leather. The skin was split to 0...

The new blog is now on line, please follow the links.

Coming soon, a blog site dedicated to the Binding of a Philip Pullman book 'A Outrance'

After months of work, the making of books, the burying and eating of books and the subtle care and sympathetic restoration of what was left,...

The in-lays are finished. As the single book is now three volumes, each with a different set of end papers the design reflects this. Volume ...

After a great deal of looking and some experimentation the covers have been made. The binding is of leather with the reverse on the outside....

Man thanks to Marc at parklightpictures for the image.... The book is finally finished, it along with lots more books will be on display at ...

Aspects of the Decayed or The book Eaters.

The book was frozen, this is sounds strange but is important as I do not want all of my books to be eaten in the studio. Now comes the not-s...

I spend my life making books. Recently I have been burying my books and today was exhumation day for one of them. As I rummaged through the ...

First the weather, the summer in London has been interesting. Having nipped out for a quick one in the middle of a down pour the equipment f...

Once the end papers have been tipped on the cords were frayed out, trimmed to about 1 1/2 cm and glued down on to the end papers. Next is th...

With the spine cleaned the book is split into the 3 volumes. Narrow grooves are sawn in to the spine. The first cut is vertical, being caref...

So work starts on a new book Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. We start with the text block, this has to be split into 3 separate volumes, th...