Over the last few Saturdays of May, I’ve been taking an introductory workshop to linocut. This introductory course was getting us familiar with the process. By the end of the course we would design, carve, and print our own bookplate (or whatever we desired). I took this course through CBBAG with Dan Mezza. What is linocut?… Continue reading Introduction to Linocut – workshop
Wayzgoose, historically, was “an entertainment given by a master printer to his workmen each year on or about St Bartholomew’s Day (24 August). It marked the traditional end of summer and the start of the season of working by candlelight. Later, the word came to refer to an annual outing and dinner for the staff of a printing works or… Continue reading Wayzgoose & Little Notebooks
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
