Our Work
Welcome to our gallery showcasing some of our work over the years. All of the products you see here have been hand made in our workshop in Sussex, we hope this may provide some inspiration to you in your quest to preserve something treasured and loved or to create something new and exciting.
Clam Shell Box & Traditional Photograph Album
This is a half bound compensation binding. Bound in bright blue and crimson Morocco with hand marbled paper sides, presented in a clam shell box covered in bright blue and Fuchsia book cloth. This was a special edition made as a gift and is unique.
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Periodicals bound in Buckram
By weekly periodical bound in volumes by year, covered in dark green Buckram with reinforced end papers and lettered in the original style.
Traditional leather binding
7 Volumes of Meyer's British Birds rebound in 1/4 maroon Leather with dark maroon Buckram sides and black labels. All our leather bindings have hand sewn silk headbands and excellent quality vegetable tanned leather.
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My life in Miniture
This was a project I undertook as part of my Art course I did alongside my bookbinding apprenticeship, the brief being to produce an art work that represented oneself. This is what I came up with, each of the books contains illustrations and text related to different areas of interest I have, the albums are among my favourites, and the photograph albums have miniaturised pictures of my loved ones and places. The sardine tin is just to show scale. Stew
Book-back Sculpture
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This sculpture is made from the debris and detritus scrapped from the spines of old books. During the process of repair and restoration of a book we use starch paste to soften and remove the old animal glue and spine lining materials that reinforce and support the book. This material is often extreamly old and can contain old paper cuttings, engravings, gold leaf, leather and other binding materials. I always felt odd throwing this away so started to collect it on baords, and biult up over time I decided these make rather interesting, historic sculptures. I have many in the bindery now and always have a couple on the go.
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A Journal - Design Binding
Simply an A5 hand sewn journal, the binding is made using sculpted mill board with holes cut, covered in black & yellow Morocco, and the holes also lined with this matieral. It has angled raised bands, hand sewn silk headbands, with abstract lettering and double warp Buckram side. The end papers are Indian marbled hand made rag paper.
Log Cabins - Design Binding
A project based on the content of a book, designed to emulate a cabin door. It is a full leather binding, the spine area is mid brown Morocco and the lighter side panels are calf, the calf was soaked and pressed with wood to produce the wood grain impression in the leather. Then the detail pieces secured to the from using brass pins. The end papers were hand made using mid green paper and green acrylic paint pressed on with reeds.
Beauty in modern popular culture
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This was an art school project from my days as an apprentice. Barbie & Ken modified using a variety of techniques. Housed in a mirrored clamshell box, half bound in calf with marble sides, with imitation edge guilding.
