Tag Archives: bookbinding

For better or worse….

…I finished my books for the Easter show.

Top. The War of the Worlds, a newly case bound multi  section book, with the textbook from Binders Edition. I painted new endpapers and cover illustrations, and free hand tooled the cover design. And hand sewn end bands.

Middle. A repair and rebind of Mrs. Beeton’s Shilling Cookbook. It was missing the covers and first few pages, so I made and designed new covers and endpapers by hand colouring prints of some of the plates inside the book. The book is sewn on cords and laced into the cover boards, 1/4 Leather bound, with my dodgy hand drawn blocking.

Bottom. Pictures of Sound, which is a booklet and CD from Dust To Digital. They have a digital download. Being in Australia it’s really expensive to get their things here, so I figured I would print my own booklets and make my own special editions. This is a stab sewn textbook with simple printed paper covered board for the covers, with inlaid prints of the CD cover from and back. Endpapers are made from images from the booklet.

Than chances of anything coming from Mars…

…are a million to one. But still they come.

The chances of me finishing binding this edition of War Of The Worlds, is about the same.

Book in Brisbane exhibition

Hello again,

this weekend only I have a book that has travelled up to Brisbane as part of a bookbinding show.

See it at

Scrumptious Reads, 92A Arthur Terrace, Red Hill on Friday 17th and Saturday 18th November.

I almost forgot. Last weekend to see this exhibition in Canberra

I bound a book for an exhibition which is the reprinted text of a letter sent by Nicolas Baudin to the New South Wales Govenor saying that the land is actually inhabited. But they didn’t listen.

The exhibit us at the Sutton Village Gallery just outside Canberra, before coming to Sydney later in the year.

51 Camp Street, Sutton.

There’s some work to do.

Painting a one off cover for a book that probably doesn’t deserve it considering the crappy paper it’s printed on.

Making a little test book…..

…..as I agreed to enter a book binding thing of binding a text block based on a letter by Nicolas Baudin disputing Captain Cook’s findings of Terra Nullius.

I’m trying some things out as I’ve made my own cords that I want visible on the inside of the book, and parts of the outside. Not sure how I feel about them on the outside yet. Glad I’ve done a dummy run.

Not sure how I feel about the raised thread on the image.

….LOTR…..

…..new cover done for the old family book.

Book cover for me

I’m binding up a conference paper from the NSW bookbinders guild and made my own cover and endpapers as there isn’t one already.

But I like my new friends so will probably turn it into a new zine at some stage.

The Witch Tips – new zine

In these terrible times, get tips from the terrible. Buy it HERE

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I’ve come to my senses.

I've come to my senses.

Actually I don’t think I have. I had a great day at the MCA Zine Fair yesterday and I’m feeling pretty happy, so I thought I’d ruin it by going to Eveleigh Artisans Market next Sunday the 2nd of June.

I’ll have most of what I had at the Zine Fair there, but also some of my hand made notebooks and calico bags, to carry you shopping, books, zines, whatever.

So thank you all you zine freaks who came out yesterday. It makes it all worthwhile.

See you next year, or at the Many Zine Fair in September. Now that should be hilarious as I might be teaching how to bind books. Like I know anything.

Thanks everyone.