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Small #bookbinding update! I've been dormant since little one came in October but I'm getting ready to dust my tools off soon.
I recently purchased a new laptop case from a great #Canadian #Etsy shop that specializes in making crafts from old kimonos. The artist offers packs of scrap pieces perfect for A5 journals. Really excited to get started!
If you like them, check it out here:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1549940324/8-pieces-bundle-made-in-japan-fabrics
Ubik by PKD
Here’s a reel that depicts what I intended to be the overall experience of holding and opening this book. The dust cover depicts the Ubik and the advertisement on the back in relatively normal fashion, only to be revealed as distorted and regressed once the dust cover is removed. All the ads for each chapter in the book are similarly designed.
Spent the day hosting (not teaching) a workshop about braided endbands.
A wonderful structural and decorative bookbinding feature.
Worked with two new tools: split needle and fid. They strike me as two tools that would have settled to the bottom of an inherited toolbox with the subsequent generation not really knowing their use.
I'm now nostalgic for the lost tools of my horseriding great + grandfather. I'm sure they had and used these for making tack.
Ubik by PKD
I went all out on this one. It was a LOT of work: Hand painted end papers, original cover design, original typeset (made in MS Word), custom vintage advertisements, hand sewn endbands, and chisel-trimmed fore edge.
And when all was said and done, I found a glaring typo while flipping through the finished product.
Oh well. It happens.
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