Silverhand Books

UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who stopped by.  It was a fun weekend with a great crowd.  I'll be pulling the shop together in the coming weeks. If you'd like to buy a book in the meantime, please contact me.

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Silverhand Books will be vending at Bent-Con in Los Angeles December 3-4, 2011.

There will be blank and lined books galore, including several leather bound blank journals and watercolor paper sketchbooks.

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Learning to Set Type

Let's just say Artfire didn't live up to the reviews. If there's something you're interested in, feel free to drop a line.  Meanwhile, looking for another alternative.

Photos and notes from class are available as Facebook albums.  The public links are encoded:

• Day 1: Monday-Constructing the Textblock
• Day 2: Tuesday-Rounding and Backing and Edge Treatments
• Day 3: Wednesday-Headbands, Spine lining, and Edge Treatment
• Day 4: Thursday-Hollow, Paring, and Covering
• Day 5: Friday-Trim out, Install the leather joint, Fill the front interior cover, Cover and sand the Interior, put in the suede flypages, Paste one of the made endpapers, Pare and apply one of the doublers

Some of the resources mentioned in class:

• Talas Online
• Dolben Leathers: eBay UK shop for bookbinding leather 2nds and off-cuts
• Tools for Woodworking: Tom Conroy uses their glue because he has confidence in the sourcing. The 315gsm is closest to the Talas glue.

Sigh. There was apparently a trip to Kyoto. I think he may be wise to the fact I like cranes. Three are color variations of the same pattern.

New paper from the latest shipment to Asakichi.

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Making Books (1947)

The Strahov Philosophical Library in Prague is the subject of the "world's largest indoor photograph" at 40 Gigapixels. How detailed is it? The photo is taken in the center of the room. Zoom to the vellum bound book by the door. You can see the grain of the skin. It looks like the history of binding is contained in this room.