Welcome to part 2 (if you haven’t read part 1 you can read it here) where I show you a look at my second entry for the Canadian Bookbinders & Book Artists Guild’s Kindred Spirits Exhibition! To learn more about the exhibition visit their website here. It was my second entry that I had serious… Continue reading Behind the Scenes: The Making of My Kindred Spirit Submissions (part 2)
At the end of last year I decided to put myself forward and register two submissions for the Canadian Bookbinders & Book Artists Guild‘s exhibition: Kindred Spirits. Then I had two unexpected surgeries (October was appendicitis and November was my gallbladder) and then I was teaching from January to April, which meant suddenly I was… Continue reading Behind the Scenes: The Making of My Kindred Spirit Submissions (part 1)
The Canadian Bookbinders & Book Artists Guild (CBBAG) is hosting Kindred Spirits: The Lucy Maud Montgomery Legacy as interpreted by contemporary book artists. You can read about the exhibition and submit your own work by visiting the website: Kindred Spirits My local chapter ran a Bookbinding Level 3 this month, and in honor of Kindred… Continue reading Kindred Spirits: Download a Free PDF Textblock of Anne of Green Gables
The next book in the series is the Gothic Binding. The others in this series are: a Nag Hammadi codex, a late Coptic binding, a limp vellum binding, an alla rustic binding, a limp leather binding, scrolls, a field journal, and a wax tablet. The Gothic was our most involved binding so far, and took quite longer than the others but I really liked how it… Continue reading Historical Bindings Project: Gothic
The next “book” in the series is the wax tablet. The others in this series are: a Nag Hammadi codex, a late Coptic binding, a limp vellum binding, an alla rustic binding, a limp leather binding, scrolls, and the field journal. The wax tablet was an adventure in woodworking skills (of which I have very little but certainly need for many of our upcoming… Continue reading Historical Bindings Project: Wax Tablet
The next book in the series is the field journal. The others in this series are: a Nag Hammadi codex, a late Coptic binding, a limp vellum binding, an alla rustic binding, limp leather binding, and scrolls. Unfortunately I have very little information on this binding. My bookbinding teacher, Dan Mezza, learned it from another… Continue reading Historical Bindings Project: Field Journals
The next “book” in the series is the Scroll! The others in this series are: Nag Hammadi, late Coptic, limp vellum, alla rustic, and limp leather. The scroll, while relatively easy to make, was not as easy to find information on! We relied heavily on Dartmouth’s blog: “The Historical Background of The Ancient Scroll“. We… Continue reading Historical Bindings Project: Scrolls
The next book in the series is the Limp Leather binding. The others in this series are: a Nag Hammadi codex, a late Coptic binding, a limp vellum binding, and an alla rustic binding. Arthur Johnson says that the tradition of limp bindings continued from vellum into leather, and in 1850 the extended edges became… Continue reading Historical Bindings Project: Limp Leather Binding
This is the fourth installment of my historical bindings project! Recently I finished the legatura alla rustica binding (or simply alla rustic). The other posts are: Nag Hammadi, Late Coptic binding, and Limp Vellum Binding. While waiting for the woodshop to open so we can cut the wood we need for other bindings (and a… Continue reading Historical Bindings Project: Alla Rustica
This is the third installment of my project on making models of historical book structures! The first was Nag Hammadi and the second was a late coptic codice. Working with Christopher Clarkson’s Limp Vellum Binding article we created a model of a limp vellum binding in medium and miniature! Limp vellum bindings were common in… Continue reading Historical Bindings Project: Limp Vellum Bindings
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