I’ve been rather quietly lately about the goings-on in the bindery. I guess it’s all become routine, and I forget that from the outside Preservation might seem like a mysterious place. Practise makes perfect; I suppose in any craft one looks to attain a degree of skill that makes the jobs seem effortless. Well, let [...]
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Lights! Pin! Infilling!
June 12, 2012 by
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I’ve been a little quiet lately; it’s been the holidays, and with Robin now here there is a lot of learning going on. However I am a little excited over an item I just finished, that had been in my pile for a few months. Its cover was in bits, and the request had been [...]
A gathering of bookbinders
December 8, 2011 by
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At the beginning of November, close to eighty bookbinders gathered at the Rheinberger Centre in Yarralumla for what promised to be an exciting week-end of anecdotal and informative exchanges. The Gathering, a national conference of book binders, was organised by the Canberra Bookbinders Guild, the second to be held in Canberra since 1984. David and [...]
