Bookbinding is the age-old craft of gathering data within a physical artefact in it's most efficient form: by creating a maximised surface area on the pages relatively to it's
outer shell - the cover.
Full Leather Binding
2023
During my apprenticeship with Hannah Brown in the UK in 2023, I made my first full leather binding. Skills such as creating endbands, embroidery, onlays, edge decoration, sewing on tapes, ploughing and leather paring were all incorporated in this creation process.
The design was inspired by my walks around Glastonbury Tor.
Bookbinding Techniques
Pippi Longstocking
Book
2023
False round spine on a stub binding.
Red & Gold Book
2019
Single page sewing with Japanese ‘hollow’ pages
with exposed spine
Drum Leaf Binding
2022
With single and double spine pieces. Single sheet binding with thicker cardstock.
The BP Book of World Land Speed Records
2023
Leather book with seperate spine and cover pieces.
Royal Blue Book
2020
Leporello with sewn-on signatures, which are covered with graphic papers.
Japanese
Red Book
2020
Japanese binding method with triangle sewing pattern and multiple coloured sheets.
Who Are The Villains?
2022
Two books in one, connected via the cover boards. Kettle stitch binding with red spine.
ASDFGHJKL
ZXCVBNM
2020
Hardcover with flat-laying system, visible yellow PVA spine.
Citizen Made Culture Research
2021
Lumbeck binding with exposed spine and multiple coloured sheets.
Local Lenses Exhibition Catalogue
2021
Kettle stitch with attached cover boards, exposed spine with yellow PVA glue.
Warm-Cold Book
2021
Lumbeck binding with 'hollow' pages and hand-marbled cover boards.
Mundane Colours Book
2019
Kettle stitch with attached cover boards. Cover contains photo's - colours taken from daily life.
Suminagashi Book
2020
Coptic French link stitch binding with hand marbled suminagashi papers.
Flower Garden at Night Book
2020
Traditional hardcover sewn on tapes, every section a different color.
Pink Hobby Book
2020
Semi hardcover, repurposed old hobby book from the 70s. Separate spine piece.
Bible's Creation Story Retold
2021
Thick cardboard book with printed transparent sheets sewn-in.
Other Bookbinding Skills
Endbands
Onlays
Embroidery
Boxmaking
Cartonnage
2020
The way I see
cartonnage is that it's using papers and cardboards for other objects than books, such as envelopes, cardholders or any other funky object you can imagine.
During my internship at printing office
Albe de Coker,
I experimented and played a lot to create a bunch of cartonnage items.
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