Category Archives: bookbinding

Friday Night Flicks: X-Book With Pockets

Posted on April 12, 2019 by

Tonight’s video shows how to make the X-Book With Pockets from Making handmade books : 100+ bindings, structures & forms by Alisa Golden.     I found the video on Bound In Edinburgh. This weekend you might want to spend … Continue reading →

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Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should

Posted on March 10, 2019 by

It may seem odd to start a (mostly) bookbinding blog post with an image of a vegetable peeler, but there is a reason. Peter Verheyen recently wrote a post titled Bookbinding and Adapting to Life Changes in which he describes … Continue reading →

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Friday Night Flicks: TX83-Timothy C. Ely

Posted on March 8, 2019 by

I have been a fan of Timothy Ely’s artist’s books since I first discovered them more than a decade ago. Tonight’s flick provides the viewer with a close-up look at TX83. While one cannot appreciate the surfaces in quite the … Continue reading →

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A Celebratory Paper Toy

Posted on February 24, 2019 by

Sometime last Sunday afternoon, this blog reached 100,000 views. While that may not be an impressive number to some, it was quite exciting for me. In celebration, I decided to give away one of the paper toys I designed last … Continue reading →

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An Accordion Book with Removable Spine

Posted on January 27, 2019 by

I saw this structure a while back on Pinterest. It turned up again recently. The image is from the announcement of a workshop —now long past— offered by Cristina Balbiano d’Aramengo. I tracked down an email address for her and … Continue reading →

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A Bookbinder’s Travel Kit

Posted on January 20, 2019 by

I wrote about the first two layers (four pockets) of my travel kit last week. Since this adaptation of the Zhen Xian Bao/Chinese Thread Book only has five pockets, today’s post will explain the combined bottom layer box and cover. … Continue reading →

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Little Projects

Posted on January 13, 2019 by

While I have some larger works in the planning stages, I have also been working on some little projects. I got all the backing of paper and cloth done for my travelling bookbinder version of the Zhen Xian Bao. (There … Continue reading →

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The Clearing Continued

Posted on January 6, 2019 by

Although it is attached to the house, my downstairs studio is not heated by the house furnace. (There is one duct from the house heating system, but I leave it closed when the studio is not in use.) Instead, I … Continue reading →

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Byopia Press 2018 Advent Calendar: Day Twenty-five and An Index

Posted on December 25, 2018 by

Best wishes to everyone for a happy, healthy, and peaceful holiday season. I suppose this should be called a Table of Contents. In any case, here follows a list of links —with pictures— to the twenty-four posts of Advent 2018. … Continue reading →

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Byopia Press 2018 Advent Calendar: Day Twenty-four and A Self-closing Book Cover

Posted on December 24, 2018 by

I used today’s structure to create a version of the Zhen Xian Bao/Chinese Thread book. I made it to carry my knitting tools and patterns to England this past fall, and it worked very well. The instructions for folding a … Continue reading →

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