Studio 5 Book Arts

Binding details. A double board Bradel Binding with a double hollow. All leather hand dyed with the back board cover...

After the work on the text block I began to work on the binding. I have chosen to use the Bradel format as it offers great variations a...

The text block has been rounded and backed and the first lining of Fraynot has been applied to the spine. The sewing multi colou...

Back to Manila in October. Bookbinding Workshop with Mark Cockram Mark Cockram is an internationally exhibited contemporary bookbinder,...

The sheets (text block folded but not cut or sewn) did not arrive until Friday afternoon, about 3 days late. During the time I Read t...

My Man Booker binding for this year is;

Having taken something like 200 hours Lysistrata is finished. I enjoyed working on this so much.  Front doubler and end paper. ...

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So near to completion, but now is the time to stop and look. Keep looking. Next is an enclosure for the advertisement. Then the box, I a...

Now to the back doubler.

Early days....

I really like to work free hand, the joy of using mixed media allows for so much freedom of expression. Though the traditional aspects ...

Ancient Greece divided by war. Invasion. The protagonists. Time and date. Wasting of blood. Lessons ...