Bookbinding
4 essays and 2 letters on this subject.
Essays
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Imposition, by Script
Printing a small booklet at home means putting the pages in a strange order. A dozen lines of code can do it, and the exercise explains why a folded book reads the way it does.
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Casing In
Glue, board and cloth, a night under a weight, and the moment a pile of thread and paper becomes a book.
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Sewing the Text Block
Linen thread, a needle, and the quiet discovery that every stitch has to be right before the next one can begin.
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Folding the Signatures
Grain, folds and a bone folder, and the discovery that a crease is a decision you make once.
From the weekly letter
- No.5
Notes from the book press
The cased book comes out of the press, what the spine remembers, and a small defence of the thing you cannot unmake.
- No.2
The sound of a stitch
Sewing signatures by ear, the first folded sheets, and a surprising amount of correspondence about paper grain.