I love making books, and I don’t mind making blank books but there is something about binding a text block that contains a story. One of my hobbies, aside from bookbinding, is writing and I have many friends who are writers themselves. As shown in a previous blog post I bound one friend’s first completed… Continue reading Project Gutenberg: Digital Library
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
My posts have been a little absent lately! I hope to change that, but some exciting news first – I’ve been accepted into the PhD program for Library and Information Sciences. I’m looking forward to going back into school in the Fall and being able to continue my bookbinding with Dan. To get myself started… Continue reading Bookstores in Vancouver – Vacation
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
This is step-by-step tutorial for the miniature leather book I posted about last time. Last time I gave sort of an overview of the workshop with James Spyker from the Toronto CBBAG chapter, this time it will be a how-to guide. For this book the signatures are sewn to the inside leather. They can easily… Continue reading Tutorial: Miniature Leather Books
Arielle's Bindery 