date night with your lovely: learn how to make books

 

Luke and Lisa

"Rustic Bible"

So here are sort of "before and after" shots of the Rustic Bible project.

I have this great customer who gives me challenging ideas to work with. for this job, He wanted me to use these thick leather covers from old brochues to cover his Dad's old beat up Bible. He collaborated with me a lot on this design and it turned out to really be what we were hoping for and still practically designed.

These are my favorite kinds of repair projects. It's like survival bookbinding ("here's a beat up old book and some limited, used materials. make something good"). This is how I started bookbinding. I just had some things lying around.

I still mostly use repurposed/discarded, scrap materials but it gets more challenging when it's a repair job because of all the limitations. This is always why I encourage customers to pitch me the idea before they assume it won't work, is too weird, or that I won't do it. The truth is, I'm incurably taken with these challenges and will bend over backwards to make "weird ideas" great books.

Here are the latest books. All custom jobs.

hand made block stamp.

old style english binding, old photo on front.

hand made block stamp, hand torn pages, calf leather.

hand died leather, 100 year old lettering. 

four paper back bibles converted to hard cover. 

hand died canvas, antique lettering. 

this is the back.

and the front.

I once shot a bunch of really old shotgun shells with a 100 year old shotgun I found. Could have died, true story. Anyways, I saved the graphics from the box of shells and put one of them to good use. Anyone who wants this can have it for $20 (before shipping). In a month, if no one has claimed it, I'll put it in the shop. By the way, this is a little guy 3 1/4'' x 4 3/4''. 

I'm a bookbinder.

Please excuse... this site is largely under construction. 

I'm a bookbinder. I make journals and rebind/ restore books by hand. Take a look at the gallery to see some of my work. Some pictures are old; from when I was fresh into book making. Some are more recent.  

Explore the site (the little that there is) and contact me for more information, an order, etc.