Studio 5 Book Arts

The spine has been covered in fair goat with a simple design of red stripes. I like the uneven nature of the coloring, it adds movement to ...

After sanding the edges colour is applied. In this case a simple yellow wash. Then it is the end banding. Single core in red with flashes of...

The ever-so helpful printer, a new and discreet method of section identification. Sanding the edges, always a fun thing. The edges will be y...

After further reading the work has begun on the text blocks, difficult to sew as the sections are so thick and the paper of poor quality. On...

The text blocks are here, having read the book I am gradually forming the design, velvet and silver, burnt paper and print. Type and New Yor...

The Man Booker short list is out, I will be binding Parrot and Olivier in America......

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...