Slipcase, chemise, flatback bindings
Simple tipped together accordian
Quarter leather binding
Sewn on cords, in board binding, with papers designed and silkscreened at the Dirt Palace in Providence, RI after visiting the New Bedford whaling museum.
Three Models of Historic Structures
Left to right:
Limp paper sewn on alum-tawed thongs, with walnut dyed cover.
Nag Hammadi codex (codex VI).
St. Cuthbert gospel.
Japanese bindings in portfolio
Four different sewing patterns, with paper marbled with Amy Brock-Reed (thanks Amy!), bone clasps.
Paste paper single and double pamphlets
I never thought I'd like paste paper...
Full leather binding
Full leather binding of Jost Amman's Cuts of Craft-Workers. Leather joints, hand-sewn endbands, paste paper endsheets.
"Fireproof Box"
Telescoping box to enclose blank book: built-in-groove case binding. Dan Knowlton, a bookbinder at the Brown U. bindery showed me this and Anna Embree helped me figure it out.
Clamshell Box
Made to enclose rounded spine book with a cloth built-in-groove case.
Half leather sketchbook
In board binding, sewn on raised double cords. 12 x 9.
Lidded box
Lidded box with interior removable tray.
Rebinding
I removed the falling-apart covers of this old science textbook, and remade the case in quarter leather with paste paper. I also mended several of the pages.