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New Designs
on Nov 4, 2008 in My Bindings book arts bookbinding As I have mentioned before, I've been busy coming up with some new book designs. Here is one of them, a happy orange book with a yellow spine: I've been wanting to create a book that has the medieval binding stitch on the spine that I love and use fo...
Big handbound journal
on Nov 6, 2008 in medieval bindings handmade journals My Bindings limp leather bindings Leather journals handbound journals bookbinding I've been getting some requests for larger leather journals. I have some really nice, soft, thick Napa leather on hand, so I came up with this:It's 15.24 cm x 22.86 cm (6" x 9"), with 240 pages of sketch paper. Plenty of room for big ideas :)...
Italian Addiction
on Nov 9, 2008 in My Bindings bookbinding I must confess, I'm a bit addicted to Italian bookbinding papers--so elegantly beautiful. Problem is, I buy them, but then I tend to just want to keep them :) . I've finally started to dip into my stash (although there are still a few I got in Venice...
A bit of a whinge….
on Nov 24, 2008 in Art Book arts Bookbinding Books Christmas Crafts Families Food Handmade books Humour Pets Shopping Videos paper arts web design BBC Milo Outnumbered Gordon Ramsey art sale websites Duck House I’ve been busy. Yes, me. Holiday Queen. I designed a website for a friend and she mentioned this to her friend who happened to need a website and her brother, who happened to need a website and Lo! and Behold! I have been working. All a bit of...
New Handbound Leather Journals
on Dec 3, 2008 in medieval bindings handmade journals My Bindings limp leather bindings Leather journals handbound journals bookbinding Got a few new journals finished and posted in my Etsy shop. I've been working on some leather journals with quotes about the moon--only seemed natural, since my business name is Moon Bindery! :) Here are photos of a couple of them:The first one has a...