Flat-Back Book with Barbara Mauriello

 

On Saturday, March 29, Barbara Mauriello led a one day workshop on making a flat-back book, with covered boards.  We fourteen BAR members worked very hard that day.  But, Barbara was a warm and knowledgeable teacher, and so we all went home with quite an impressive book!

Cutting bookcloth and bookboard the easy way!

Piercing a signature 

Marking the hinge cloth

All the goodies!

Casing-in the book

Close to finished...

Thank you Barbara for a great workshop!








Picture Credit: Janet Ducote

A Really Good Resource

 

I recently discovered the   Center for Book Arts Blog.  I'd learned about it because by friending them on Facebook.



There's a daily pattern to the posts throughout the week---Methods Monday, Typeface Tuesday, Wednesday Exhibitions, Thursday Terms, Friday Insights.






My favorites are the Typefaces, Methods and Terms.
You may think you know all about some of these basics,
 but it can be good to reset your mind with proper techniques.









The subjects range from scoring to Coptic binding to tipping end sheets to brayers to bone folders and much, much more.  The typeface this week is Goudy Oldstyle which I love and have in my type drawers.  One of the illustrations in the post is a portrait of Goudy made entirely of Goudy Oldstyle type (see below).  It's worth taking the time to go back through the posts as far as January of this year when it the daily columns bagan.  Look on the right hand column and you can go systematically through the months.  I like to check at least weekly to see what is there!

Sage Reynolds aka Ceropegia

Just a quick note for a link I'm adding to the links list. Sage Reynolds is known for his paste paper and NY Central Art Supply carries or used to carry his mixture for paste for making paste paper. He's a meticulous guy and was once on Martha Stewart demonstrating Paste Paper. Now I've discovered another area of expertise of Sage's--book binding. While searching for a video to guide me through making a traditional case bound book I found some very good videos covering all the steps in great detail along with some innovative techniques for dealing with glue and making your own pad for glueing. The name he uses on You Tube is Ceropegia and there are numerous videos under that name. There are so many you might have to ask it to list more.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Ceropegia

BOOK--a technological breakthrough!

This video is so clever! Enjoy!