Studio 5 Book Arts

Cold gold application to create texture and movement, the gold leaf is given a patina with the application of many coats of lacqu...

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The base colours are added to with darker dyes. The depth I am looking for is that as the patina one finds on old paint work.

The craft side of bookbinding now steps back to let the art side step forward.

A little while ago one of my customers dropped in to the studio to pick up a small book. His grand daughter, a charming 7 year old, asked ...

  --> BOOKBINDING in SW LONDON EVENING CLASSES Tuition and Much More ☞ Bricolage bookbinding and book arts   ☞ Creative a...

You saw it here first.... The Studio 5 Structured evening Class. Over 8 evenings students will be able to learn how to make 4 books. I...

All of the above will be on exhibition and for sale at Codex 2015. http://www.codexfoundation.org/book-fair-and-symposium/2015-bo...

It is with the deepest regret that I have been informed that David Sellars past away late last night. I had the pleasure to have known Dav...

 No 2, The Studio 5 one day workshop in non adhesive binding. Students have the chance to make an elegant, non adhesive binding (ap...

Final leather paring. The leather is creased and given a memory along the joints with gentle strikes with a hammer.     Then...

Having finished the sanding of the boards and spine leather work begins. The leather, goat skin in this case, is first cut to size leavin...

This particular 4 Gospels is a speculative binding (not a commission) Sketching out design ideas.

 Forwarding, the construction of the book before decoration can and often does take time. So much effort that will never be seen. Howe...

No 1, STUDIO 5 WORKSHOP SERIES 2015. Introduction to typeset and 2 colour reduction Lino printing with the Adana 8/5 hand printing press....

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