Bookbinding and Tool-Making

Bookbinding and Tool-making

Gold tooling using hand tools and type

The front board has a cutout in the shape of a Gothic arch.

Practice during a workshop by Glenn Bartley at West Dean College (all of the E’s were taken - hence Phantasmagoria)

Design Binding A full leather binding pack sewn on four raised supports.

Both boards are finished with hand-drawn illustrations of vines and brickwork, achieved using coloured foils and a heated stylus

I used soldered wire wrapped in thread to create tracery, with the marbled endpapers acting as stained glass beneath.

A flatback rebinding, with painted edges and foil illustrations

A rounded and backed case binding, quarterbound with multi-layered foil illustrations and gold-tooled lettering

A softcover full leather journal, with hag stone clasp and pen loop

A hollowback, halfbound in cloth and decorative paper, sewn on recessed supports and with laced on boards, with hand tooled stamps and lettering

Two pairing knives, manually lapped and sharpened up to 12,000 grit

Lifting knives, hand-shaped from hacksaw and junior hacksaw blades. I took off the teeth, shaped and created the bevel on a grinder and Tourmac.