Studio 5 Book Arts

There is a story behind this rusting pile of staples..... more to follow soon.

Poet and good all round egg Roger McGough and I will be working in Liverpool later this year.... we will be making books out of doors. The b...

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Over the last few months I have been working on a book with Roger McGough, Roger is a poet and a damn fine one to boot. What started of as a...

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After the dye has been allowed to dry out over night the gold leaf has been applied. It took 2 books of gold leaf ! Then the first phase of ...

With the leather dying completed I worked on the image of Miranda. using a fine brush and a spirit leather dye I blacked in the original. Th...

Following on from the spine cleaning new linings, end bands, linen, skirting, hollow, boards etc have been added to the text block. The next...

The morning after a day of filming, the result....

The Royal Mail delivers many things, yesterday was not an exception. After some time, buried in the soil of New Zealand one of my books retu...

One of the variants of the 2nd module in the Studio 5 Introduction to Bookbinding Course is to make a Bradel Binding. This one has Flottage ...

The Tempest, lovely illustrations by Dulac.... what more can I say. First job is to clean off the old spine linings and adhesive, in this ca...

Detail of the hand dying and tooling.

After a lot of work and experimentation I was not happy with the results of the first Gilbert and George. I had to make the decision to star...

Sorry, I have been a bit bit busy over the last few days, normal service will resume very soon.

Some times I find it important to go back to the basics. A simple paper covered case binding. The structure is based on the Bradel with a mi...

Dear Reader, In my previous post I mentioned that I was going to Japan, to see family, friends and do a lecture or two. My flight was for Fr...

The gold is on, the resin is set, all is right. Going to Japan for a few days.......

The resin has done its stuff and the gold leaf has been applied to the back board. The effect is about what I am looking for. More work to d...