Covering a laced on board binding with leather.

Sewing double core or batonet endbands with some thin ass Kinkami thread. Both cores are paper, unfortunately not rolled on the thighs of Italian nuns. I’m grateful for all the friendship bracelets I made as a kid because the skill translates to this wild hand ballet. I love making cool stuff

Time lapse of sewing a laced on board binding. I use a frame to maintain tension on the cords while everything else tends to flop around at will. #bookbinding #craft #designfinebinding

A binding of The Helen Fragments that I made for the OPEN•SET exhibition. My binding was selected for the SET category, where all binders submit their interpretations of the same book. Covered in calf skin with wood veneer and dyed leather inlays and an onlay of stingray over the spine.

@blackoakbindery.bsky.social I saw your binding! It is beautiful and I wish you were here.

All sorts of different leather textures and treatments. A mix of fish skins, box calf, lizard, inclusions, dyed calf, foils and bubbles 🫧 #bookbinding #finebinding #leatherworking

There are so many small meditations in craft. Here is the trimming of the top edge of a book using a vertical plough. A blade drops lower with each rotation of the black wheel and the top of the book is trimmed a few pages as a time.

Rounding the spine of the book after sewing is an exercise in gentle insistence. Also a helpful motivator in my own life.

Some cast iron from the bindery. Even finding the equipment necessary to do some of this work feels like a treasure hunt. From left; Jacques board sheer, job backer, book press, and sharfix #bookbinding #workshop #craft

Some details of a binding of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by M.W. Shelley. Bound in fair calf with onlays of stingray, inlays of dyed calf, piercings of steel wire. Lines are blind tooled in red foil and edge to edge paper doublures were dyed with spirit dyes. #bookbinding #fineart #craft

I make books! #bookbinding #reliure #designbinding