Wrapped Long-Stitch Book

I am teaching the final class in a three-week bookbinding course tonight at UAF. I made a new version of one of my favorite bindings: the wrapped long-stitch, to provide a visual sample for the students while teaching how to bind their books. This version is a hardcover and is sewn onto tapes with a completely open spine. Typically for the wrapped long-stitch I use a thick soft-cover wrap and do not sew on tapes.

Cookbook Repair

Below are a couple of photographs documenting the repair of the cookbook I posted about earlier. Because the book did not need restoration (great, because I am not trained in that!) and the owner only requested a patch-job, I simply stabilized the binding with new scrim and glue, applied a new headband, and salvaged half of the great endpapers to use when reattaching the book to the cover.

BookEnds Exhibition

While this is an older piece of mine, I still submit Mechanics of Thought to Book Arts Shows every so often because it has been received so well. This may be its last show as I have new work coming out soon that I need to promote. I was quite pleased to read a review of the BookEnds Exhibition that this piece was exhibited in most recently at Pyramid Atlantic in Maryland. The author had some very kind words to say about my work; you can read the article here. The sister show of this exhibition was at Torpedo Gallery in Virginia where I also had another artist book exhibited: Collected Affections. Here is a link to images from that show. I am impressed with the amount of digital archiving work that went into both of these exhibitions have enjoyed browsing the Picasa Albums and weblinks promoting both shows.