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What I did on my summer holidays
Japanese stab-bound album This week I have been taking a bookbinding course with Guy Begbie at the University of the West of England. It is an odd way to spend your annual leave, but we are having a...
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What I learned on my holidays
A week's worth of bookbinding Well, my week’s bookbinding has come to an end. I am amazed how tiring it was. Lots of concentration required and it is also surprisingly physical. My arm, hand and...
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Using sketchbooks
Naples Travel Journal 1 One of the problems I have with my adventures in bookbinding is that the finished article is always too perfect to use. It’s the equivalent of being given a beautiful...
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Further adventures in bookmaking
Handmade book If you have been reading this blog for a while you will know that I am on a mission not to buy any supplies or materials for a year from 1 October 2011 to 30 September 2012. It’s...
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Laura Ashley Sample Book of Secrets
After much deliberation I finally decided how to present the Laura Ashley sample quilts that I wrote about on the blog towards the end of last year. These are tiny little pieces using up the very...
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Quick post today
Quick post today. This little album comes from one of our Chinese students. They give us presents like this quite a lot. This one is a book of paper cutouts of signs for Chinese horoscopes. My...
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13 Notebooks for Walter Benjamin
I have been doing some work on a project that I made last year in which I created thirteen notebooks as a tribute to Walter Benjamin, who is one of my favourite theorists. I’ve blogged about Benjamin...
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Something of a thought for the day.
Quick post today, as a pile of marking has just shown up. I was idly leafing through a rather nice book with an awful title: Living the Creative Life by Rice Freeman-Zachery, and I came across...
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What did we learn at the weekend?
I am surrounded almost all day every day with people who are mad for learning, the lifelong variety and the skills acquisition kind. So, it seems only in the spirit of things to reflect on what I...
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Our love is here to stay
I have finally more or less finished this artist’s book on Walter Benjamin’s ‘The Destructive Character’. I am mightily relieved as the conference paper is a week on Sunday and I have run out of...
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