Studio 5 Book Arts

As we have a day of sun one of the recent decayed/ eaten books drys out. This is one of my note books, my ideas, designs and thoughts. A tin...

As I wait for things to dry on Lysistrata, boards and the like, I am working on a small print project. Just for fun.... Simple in print and ...

After some time in the nipping press the sections where sewn using the original holes. The stitch used is an un-supported link stitch. The f...

Having looked at the text block I thought it best to remove the old binding, clean the spine and pull or remove the original sewing. First I...

After all the spine linings that could be removed dry, I moved on to a wet cleaning process. The text block was placed in working boards and...

First a big thank you to Nicky, Haein and Cheryl for their help over the open studio weekend. It was good fun with about 40 people coming. R...

It has taken some time but Studio 5 will be having an OPEN WEEKEND..... Saturday-31-July and Sunday-1-August...2010 All welcome!

Brush Up Your Shakespeare is finished and in transit to the owner. I had great fun working on this miniature binding, such a contrast to the...

With this style of text block construction the pages flow as you go through them. The text block almost escapes from the binding. Fun to wor...

The Doublers are hand printed and coloured with a layer of worked cold gold (23 1/2 ct) The text block will be attached with the first and l...

For the first time in many years I am going on HOLIDAY.... to Spain.

Work progresses on Brush Up Your Shakespeare. A Full leather binding ( Fair Goat ) with a stylised image of a pair of pouting lips. The dye ...

Having been informed that the definition of a miniature book is any book under 3 inches, I am happy to say that Brush Up Your Shakespeare is...

I love boxes. This one contains Brush Up Your Shakespeare, a limited edition by the Piccolo Press/New York. Small but not a miniature. Char...

The box is finished, both the outside.... ...and the inside. Two further books are contained in the interior of the box. One is about the pr...

The box has been designed to enable the books to be seen yet still be protected. Using the four sides of the box as individual frames for ea...

The clients for The Four Gospels have seen the books, handled them and liked them..... which is good. Box making now.... something with a tw...

The 4 Gospels, the boards, leather, collage, colour, tooling and the boards are on. The first images. In the back ground is the box, taking ...

The 4 Gospels, the boards, leather, collage, colour, tooling and the boards are on.

Nearly there!......