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We are proud to showcase fine examples of the bookbinding art. The bindings
below were all created using our leathers. Click on the
thumbnails for details and a bigger picture.
Norgebound by Tom Twetten, Craftsbury Antiquatian Books An early photographic book on Norway. website
Complete Poems of Robert Frostbound by Tom Twetten, Craftsbury Antiquatian Books website
Hansel and Gretel and Other Stories of the Brothers Grimmbound by Tom Twetten, Craftsbury Antiquatian Books American Edition, 1925 Illustrated by Kay Nielsen website
The Illustrated Man: 16 short stories by Ray Bradbury The Folio Society, 2017 bound by Mel Jefferson Bound in black Harmatan goatskin. Body landscape of maril (thinly sliced marbled leather composite) with airbrushed highlights/shadows. Silk endbands. Edges in acrylics with specks of palladium leaf. Astronaut rendered in domed recessed onlays of alum-tawed goatskin. Lectern in recessed onlaid lines. Printed planet inlay under vellum. Rocketship and planet logo blocked and onlaid. Printed doublures with 16 inlaid period comic strip images under vellum. The design reflects my feeling that Bradbury’s early work – often written for sci-fi comics – used the genre as a platform for what now seems like rather naïve moralising, hence the declaiming astronaut.Winner of the Mansfield Medal for best binding in the Designer Bookbinders Bookbinding Competition, 2018. Collection: The British Library.
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Enclosures: Times And PlacesA book of woodcuts by Andrew Anderson Evergreen Press, 2009 bound by Mel Jefferson
A crossed-structure binding in laminated Harmatan goatskin.
Outer laminate decorated with starfield, clock face and musical notation rendered in recessed leather onlays. Circular crosshatching design blocked in silver foil. Recessed onlaid lines in alum-tawed goatskin. Inner laminate textured and decorated with blind tooling showing a plan of Stonehenge with remaining stones indicated by goatskin onlays. Cover fore-edges contain carbon rods for rigidity.
Central lacunose strap with a leather button bearing the artist’s monogram. The strap may be detached from the inner covers to reveal hidden patches of ‘grass’.
Two-stage sewing through an inner concertina wrapper of dyed Tyvek with stylised inked stonework design. Covers secured with laminated ‘donuts’ of parchment (upcycled title deed) sewn with silver wire. Graphite edges.
Box of dyed Tyvek and Windmill paper. Circular stylized stonework design. Title blocked in grey foil. Magnetic insert conceals collapsible stand. Folding cushions enable box to be used as a display plinth.
Winner of the Harmatan Leather Ltd. Prize in the Designer Bookbinders Bookbinding Competition, 2018. Collection: Dr. John Walters.
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Happy Abstractbound by Coleen Curry website
Le Tambour bound by Jean-Pierre Durix
13 poems by H.N. Bialik bound by Yehuda Miklaf, 1987 Original etchings by Moshe Gershuni Jerusalem Print Workshop Full black goatskin with mosaic portraits of the author and artist using more than 5000 small leather squares. website
Révolutions by J.M.G. Le Clézio bound by Jean-Pierre Durix
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel bound by Carole Durix
Inside the Bookbound by Robin Brandes by David Esslemont, Solementes Press, 2002. 263 x 172 x 30mm. Full leather binding with laced-in boards. Covered in Harmatan white Katsina goatskin. Edge-to-edge paper doublures. White Katsina leather hinges. Archival pigment-printed flyleaves on Awagami bamboo paper. Brackets laser cut by Sarah Pike. Titling in palladium leaf by Samuel Feinstein. During the concept development for the design binding Inside the Book, I was thrilled to discover brackets used to enclose the page numbers in the text like this: [ 12 ] As a graphic designer, I like to deconstruct content to get to the core meaning for presentation. It occurred to me that each bracket looked like an edge of an open book! I wanted the viewer to see through the edges of the book—to see inside the book. Therein lies the design binding for Inside the Book. website
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The Society of Bookbinders
Designer Bookbinders
The Guild of Bookworkers