Many, if not all blogposts I have seen recently fall in one of two categories: either they are about making a commitment for the coming year, or they are about looking back the last 10 years, now that we are finishing another set of 10. And so I, too, dug out my old harddrive and […]
Category archives: Chitchat
Silk Thread for Asian Bindings – General Talk, Pictures, and Call for Applications
I have started to work with the book “Japanese Bookbinding. Instructions from a Master Craftsman” by Kojiro Ikegami already in 2014, five years ago. If you don’t know it, you should at least try to take a look at it at your local library. By many it is considered THE book about Japanese bookbinding. Like […]
Interview: Sarah Roach
In my last “feature find” I told you how I met Sarah Roach at various events here in Nottingham. She is a photographer and printmaker whose style is easily recognizable. I came across her work on various occasions in and around Nottingham. Most recently I saw her represented at the Derby Print Open at Banks […]
Feature Find: Sarah Roach
Welcome to my early summer “feature find”. In this edition I want to invite you to take a look at Sarah Roach‘s instagram stream. You’ll find a lot of nature photography, and prints often minimalistic and abstract. The abstraction comes from blowing up images, focusing on small details like a single blade of grass, or […]
Mini Coptic Binding
It’s been a while since I have shared any making of here on this blog. But while I made this mini book the other day I remembered taking some photos: Step 1: The individual steps are really like for any book. The first step for me is always the cutting and folding of signatures and […]