For now, here are a couple of small books I made under his guidance – one covered in calf vellum, the other in deer. They are just first attempts, of course, and filled with mistakes, but they were immensely satisfying to make by hand.
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Monday, 16 February 2015
Back from book-binding
For now, here are a couple of small books I made under his guidance – one covered in calf vellum, the other in deer. They are just first attempts, of course, and filled with mistakes, but they were immensely satisfying to make by hand.
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They look fantastic!
Do please write more about bookbinding as your time may permit. It would be of particular interest to learn about perils and pitfalls. I have myself accumulated a small set of electronic references to bookbinding techniques, which I would be happy to e-mail you if you write me privately (as Toomas dot Karmo at gmail dot com). And I have managed to find in Toronto a cheap source of goatskin, namely www.perfectleathergoods.com (with physical premisses at 555 King Street West).
Of perhaps special interest would be whatever thoughts you might have about binding in full leather, with wooden boards, onto cords (rather than, as has been common since Queen Vicky's reign, onto tapes).
I add here for the benefit of your readers - you will know this yourself, but perhaps not all readers will - that is binding onto cords that produces ribbed spines, where the ribbing runs parallel to the lines of print within the book. By "parallel to the lines of print", I mean here "parallel to the library floor, and perpendicular to the library walls, when the book is shelved upright".
Sincerely,
Toomas (Tom) Karmo
near Toronto
www dot metascientia dot com
Hippy, thank you!
Toomas, the bookbinder did show me books like that, although the kind I did used leather, vellum and cord. I will be writing about it more soon, and will be learning more in the coming months. Thanks for reading!
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