This is my most recent design binding - Happy Abstract by William Blake. It was done for the OPEN * SET show put on by the American Academy of bookbinding. It will be submitted for jury review in September and if chosen, in 2020, will travel to:

New York City – The Grolier Club
San Francisco – The American Bookbinders Museum
Salt Lake City – Marriot Library, University of Utah
Austin – Austin Public Library

This book was printed with one line of text on each page and the bookbinder’s were invited to carry our work through to the inside pages of the book (photos of that coming soon). I chose to marble the pages with thin lines of intersecting color. I also added in gold leaf in abstract pattern.

Details on the design: black, marbled goat skin, marbled edges, hand-sewn endbands, black doublures.

This book is currently on tour with the Guild of Bookworkers FORMATION exhibition where it will travel to:

Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Minneapolis, MN
June 15 — October 21, 2018

Robert C. Williams Papermaking Museum
Georgia Tech
Atlanta, GA
November 1, 2018 — March 7, 2019

Charles E. Young Research Library Lobby Gallery
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
March 15 — May 25, 2019

North Bennet Street School
Boston, MA
June 5 — July 27, 2019

University of the Arts
Philadelphia, PA
August 1 — October 30, 2019

Details on binding: blue goat skin, leather onlay, painted edges, mylar lamination, edge treatment with acrylic wash and gold leaf, hand-sewn endbands, marbled paper paste down and fly leaves, leather hinges.

This book is my go-to for cloth photo albums. I’ve been making them for many years and have really refined the design.

There are many choices for cloth and marbled paper end-sheets / accent on the box. Photos are mounted onto acid-free Stonehenge paper.

Re-binding of my signed copy of Rebecca Atwood’s book Living with Pattern.

Details: navy goat skin, blind tooling, shibori dyed fair goat, hand-marbled paste down, leather hinges, Japanese paper flexi end-sheets, hand-sewin endbands.

Re-binding of Jess Brown’s book The Making of a Rag Doll.

Details: dyed goat skin, leather transfer, onlays, hand-cut letters, suminagahshi marbled edges, hand-sewn endbands.

All albums are made to order using the finest materials available. Please call or email for a quote.