I’ve been working on several more drop spine boxes for stationery this week, and am steadily sewing my way through a small mountain of books whose covers and pages fill my work table. A few of the baby books…
This is just a taste of some fun things to come, and our philodendron enjoying the afternoon sun because it’s too pretty not to share.
Thanks to Matt’s urging…and I can’t believe I forgot to mention it!: Boxes are now up in a brand spanking new “custom projects” section of my site, along with a little more letterpress work, and lots more coming soon! Enjoy!
And you should take a moment to enjoy Robert Frost’s “The Star-splitter”. It helps put an otherwise quiet Wednesday in an awful lot of perspective.
You should create a new page on your site to feature these boxes!
Done! I cannot believe I forgot to include that the first time around! Thanks for making me look like a million bucks!
It’s so good to have the image of Orion swinging its leg up over Frost’s fence of mountains. A welcome gift in my day.
I love that your paper isn’t perfectly cut and the signatures aren’t level..
a couple of years ago when I was doing a bit of bookbinding I kept making sure everything was perfect. Nothing was misaligned, everything was super-tight.. yet it never felt hand made. it felt poorly machine made.. Heh, seems so obvious now
Thanks, Alex! The variation of edges/measurements is something I’m incredibly attuned to and always checking, no question – but often not checking with the intention of everything being perfectly straight, you’re right.
I will say that I was especially liberal with the matchy-matchy qualities of these tiny books (they’re babies, 3″h x 4″w) precisely because they’re so tiny and I thought it would be more fun. My slightly larger journals and albums tend to be much more precise *but* I use the deckled edge of the paper 99.9% of the time, so the edge has the effect of making it all look like it came from my own two hands. Every once in a while, I’ll do a completely straight foredge on a large triple chain stitch album, but leave the deckles along the top and bottom edges – so it’s pretty, but also trim and easy to flip through.
Long story short: thanks for noticing the teeny tiny details. I spend a lot of time on all of those sorts of things, but they’re usually the things noone else will ever know about or notice.
I think those teeny tiny details is what makes your work that much more beautiful..
I think that we often fall in love with something for reasons we can’t quite put our fingers on — in the case of your work, I think it’s the extra effort and details that most might not realise are there, but would notice if they weren’t. Another one of the joys of letterpress and bookbinding?