This is how my studio looks today. Much better than yesterday! Yesterday, I thought I’d grant myself a break from ugly paper- and office work (need to fill out tax forms, applications, insurance stuff, …). But when I entered: Oh, my! I took a picture, but sorry for the low quality: my hands must have […]
Category archives: tutorial
“Eins, Zwei, Drei, Vier Eckstein. Alles muss versteckt sein…” – A tunnel book structure
I said in the last blog post that I wanted to explain in more detail how I attached the panels for the tunnel book “Die Suche”. I decided to make it a short tutorial. What you need is: As many rectangular pieces of cardstock as you want panels for your book, all of the same […]
Worktable Wednesday: Promise of Spring
When I entered my studio this morning, my worktable was not quite as tidy as it should have been. Rests of yesterday’s work are spread all over the studio, not only the worktable. So first thing to do today is tidy up. Then breakfast. Heute morgen war mein Arbeitsraum mal nicht ganz so ordentlich, wie […]
Worktable Wednesday: Asian Stab Bindings
The day started off with writing a proposal for a custom order that was still pending. Then I decided to stock up on my Coptic Headbands book today, and write something like a tutorial for Asian stab bindings. Those stab bindings were the first I learned to make from instructions (before that I tried to […]
How to Make this Book. Part II
This is the second part of the instruction of how to make the book that you see on the left. In the first part, I told you how I set the red hearts into the black leather, so that now I have everything in place to start constructing my case. There are 4 pieces of […]