On which I post yet less professional things. I seem to be updating it much more often, though in much less detail.
Recently we have been making flatbacks, with is terrible, because I hate flatbacks. They are another form of casebinding, which are, as mentioned previously, held in with glue and anxiety, but without a rounded and backed spine, so they just fall right out of their cases after a few years. And they are ugly. I …
I am sulking at home because my classmate got me sick, and so I thought I might write something extremely belated here. I have been taking a jewelry workshop because the school has a jewelry department and I want to learn to make clasps for my books. Jeff, who is an instructor for the bookbinding …
Over the summer I made those metal covers you may recall from some time ago. I finally got around to covering it for its own protection. Just a bit of deerskin that was given to me by a fellow student in the travel journal workshop. And then I made a box for it to prevent …
I am afraid my productivity has become monotonous to behold. The edition project is a set of ten to twelve case bindings with various endsheet structures and endbands and so on. The point of the exercise, I guess, is to bring the whole lot through the process at the same time instead of one at …
Jeff Peachey came by after Standards to teach us all how to make knives. It is a theoretically simple thing. Set the bevel, then polish, he says. And of course he would know, because he is the local god of knives. He later wrote a helpful post on his blog about it, with links to …
This week and three weeks ago or whenever it was were basically the same, so I will just put them together. You may recall these drying in a pile on my desk a few weeks ago. I think I promised to introduce you to them. Try not to be too underwhelmed. I ended up using …
Misadventures in rounding and backing. Rounding and backing is where you put glue on the book and then hit it with a hammer. Okay, so when you sew the text block, the sections are stacked directly on top of one another and squared up. And then you glue the spine, being careful to keep everything …
In accordance with my vow to make everybody look at every book I make, here is the belated product of week two. So at some point during the week, I started putting numbers and dates and stuff in them. I guess I will put that sort of thing in the alt text. Here, I brought you …
As we all (and here “all” refers to “me” because nobody in their right mind would read this nonsense) undoubtedly know, I was unexpectedly accepted to the North Bennet Street School full-time bookbinding program. This past week was our first full week. My class includes a few conservators with varying levels of experience, a gentleman …