NEW: one 2-night 6-hour workshop on hinged box (clamshell box) making. You should be able to walk away with two boxes and a whole lot of knowledge for the hugely steep price of $100 taxes and materials included. We will be working in paper (nepalese paper) and board; such boxes have the feel of . . . → Read More: New Workshop
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There has been a lot of talk in the last while about electronic books and digital reading devices. I love my iPhone, and my MacBook Pro. I’ve been a fairly early adapter of all kinds of things: I first went online in about 1993, on the UNIX system at U de M, while . . . → Read More: e-books #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } partial view Adapted French Bookbinding. (introductory course) ** please note change in date to May 24! ** Starts: Tuesday May 24, 2011 . . . → Read More: Basic Bookbinding course starts May 24, 2011 @ 7 pm Adapted French Bookbinding. (introductory course) Starts: Tuesday February 22, 2011 at 7:00 pm Duration : 10 weeks – 2 hours per week (7-9 pm) Location : 305, rue de Bellechasse, local 405 This class will be offered in English; if there is sufficient interest, another course will be offered in French, start date to . . . → Read More: Bookbinding Course starts Feb 22 I teach workshops through Au Papier Japonais, and I sometimes give workshops in my studio. If you have a particular project in mind, and none of the listings here are useful to that end, please contact me and see what we can arrange. It does sometimes happen that groups are assembled for a variety . . . → Read More: Courses – 2011 This is what I call a “merkinabox”. It got named that at a birthday partly last summer. merkin-a-box It’s a small box (2 in diameter, 4 inches high, approx) with fur inside, covered in leather and sometimes also lined in paper. Some are round like the one photographed here, and some are square, . . . → Read More: merkinabox There’s a lot of recent discussion about whether or not giving free books away on the Internet is a good idea. Some say that it will affect sales negatively. Some fear that the book will be pirated. I think that’s all nonsense, especially if the book given away has already sold many many copies. . . . → Read More: free books and recreational reading I’m a bit of a book collector of special editions (sometimes they come unbound) and I’m also a fan of seeing other people’s bookbinding* work. But just TRY to find out who made what, and if there are photos for it. In a recent email conversation with a small-press publisher of fine limited and . . . → Read More: Why are bookbinders invisible? Part of the policy of no bar code is to reduce how much stuff we use, as binderies can be hugely wasteful productions. We don’t put out a huge recycling box every week – we save and reuse as much as we can. This means board and paper, but it also applies to our . . . → Read More: no bar code philosophy – reduce, reuse, and recycle When I first started bookbinding, I’d been studying the book for a long time. I grew up in a house that held thousands of books. I was first read to, then I first read by pretending to read. I have been a bookseller and graduate student in literature. I have studied how books are . . . → Read More: idea space |
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