Contemporary Fine Art Bindings

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Thursday, 30 January 2014

Rubbish books.

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For the last few weeks I have been working with rubbish. I do not mean the content of some books that cross my bench, more the concept of ma...
Tuesday, 7 January 2014

SIMON BRETT An Engraver's Progress. Barbarian Press MMXII

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Waiting for the doublers to dry on the Alphabet book.

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Sunday, 5 January 2014

Sanding down the doublers for Blake's Alphabet.

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Sunday, 15 December 2013

Endpapers for Peter Blake's Alphabet book.

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Lino cut with hand coloured paper. The back end paper is slightly different, being the other half, or there a-bouts of the alphabet. ...
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Saturday, 14 December 2013

Up - date on things in the studio soon.

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Tuesday, 26 November 2013

New book on the block.

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My next binding will be for the truly magnificent...  PETER BLAKE ALPHABETS. Limited edition of 600, signed by Peter Blake and Mel Gooding....

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The final result.
Saturday, 12 October 2013

Man Booker, We need New Names. Final stages.

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Binding details. A double board Bradel Binding with a double hollow. All leather hand dyed with the back board cover...
Saturday, 5 October 2013

Man Booker, We Need New Names. Spine is finished.

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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...
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Friday, 4 October 2013

Mann Booker, We Need New Names.

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The text block has been rounded and backed and the first lining of Fraynot has been applied to the spine. The sewing multi colou...
Sunday, 15 September 2013

Bookbinding workshop in Manila.

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

Man Booker, late sheets.

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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...
Wednesday, 11 September 2013

Man Booker 2013

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My Man Booker binding for this year is;
Friday, 30 August 2013

Lysistrata, finished.

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

Emirates LitFest

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Lysistrata, the folio, and the beginning of the label making.

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Sunday, 18 August 2013

Studio5 on Face Book.

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Studio5 on Face Book.
Saturday, 17 August 2013

Lysistrata, back doubler 95% finished.

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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...
Wednesday, 14 August 2013

Lysistrata. Front Doubler 95% finished.

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Now to the back doubler.