Continuing the book recommendations from my previous posts, here are several books that I recently came to own and would recommend. Several of these were recommended to me and one I picked up out of interest (Encyclopedia of the Book). Check out part 1 and part 2 of my recommend book lists if you haven’t yet!… Continue reading Recommended Books (Part 3)
Continuing the book recommendations from my previous post, here are several books that come recommended to me or that I own and consider worth getting! Find the next part here. ABC of Bookbinding: An Illustrated Glossary of Terms for Collectors and Conservators By Jane Greenfield I find this book to be useful, it is has… Continue reading Recommended Books – Part 2
Whoa! Time flew by and as often as I kept reminding myself to write a blog post it just didn’t happen, before I knew it a month had passed since I last updated. Keeping busy, I have been applying for jobs and making a small stack of miniature book key chains on and off throughout… Continue reading The Making of Miniature Book Key-chains
The second weekend in April I took part in a day long workshop with James Spyker. James Spyker is a member of the Toronto chapter of CBBAG. He’s very talented in his work and it was great to take a workshop with him! This was my first time working with miniature bookbinding. We were going… Continue reading Miniature Leather Book Workshop
This is going to be a short blog post but I think it is important too. There are so many books out there on bookbinding and this is just a small list of ones that my teacher Dan Mezza as recommended over the course of our classes together. Some of them are harder to find… Continue reading Recommended Books
One of the things we touched on in the Repair & Restoration course was the basic structures we were likely to encounter. Knowing the difference between these structures is essential because if will ultimately affect how you repair the book and put it back together! You can’t turn a tight back into a groove back… Continue reading Basic Binding Structures
Over the past two weekends I took part in a course offered by CBBAG. It is one of the core courses in their curriculum. The course was the first half of Repair & Restoration, this half focused on cloth and paper bindings. The second half of the course focuses on leather repair and won’t be… Continue reading Cloth and Paper – Repair & Restoration
Earlier this year my friend self-published her first book on Amazon! I decided that I wanted to do something special for the accomplishment and as Christmas was approaching I decided that it would be a perfect gift. It took far longer than I thought it would (good thing I started early) and I certainly learned… Continue reading Binding Allister’s Calling
