Making a 15th c. Style illuminated manuscript book using authentic historical materials and techniques
Finally Turning in the head and tail and molding everything to shape. #bookbinding #medievalbooks #book #medieval
THÉRESE MONCEY - Florilège des amours
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In the process of sewing a German braided endband with alum-tawed thongs.
Description This is a bright red leather journal with decorative studs and diamond inlays. It is a commissioned piece that is 7x10 with hand sewn headbands and marbled paper end sheets. High quality art paper for the text block and a coat of paraffin wax for a slight sheen.
I have always been fascinated by liturgical book bindings from the Middle Ages. Their perfect union of leather, wood and metal, as a supple and tactile work of functional art, is singularly satisfy…
Da costura, dos materiais, dos acabamentos. Tamanho: 18,5 x 13 cm
The British Library houses an immense collection of bookbindings. But if you can’t make it to London you can view incredibly detailed scans of their collection online. This binding of Sir Tho…
Read here for Part 1 Read here for Part 2 This has been a long and complicated project, mainly because it required the coordination of various things, but the 3rd and final binding marks its end. The principle of Legality in European criminal law - which was shortened to "Legality"- is a recently published book…
Murder and violence were thriving in the Middle Ages. Homicide levels were astonishingly high in Medieval England, at least ten times what they are today!
Goudbeslag 1761 BINDING: In 8° (14,5 x 9 x 6 cm); contemporaine, kalfslederen boekband met goudstempeling op rug en platten. Geciseleerd goud op snee. Centrale gouden sluiting, muiter en aanzetstuk. De cirkelvormige afbeeldingen bevatten putti met de volgende allegorische voorstellingen: • Waakzaamheid…Lees meer ›
manuscripts from around the world spanning 5000 years of human civilization
[Enoch Arden. No imprint or date.] 25 plates pasted on backing sheets. [A specimen book?] Robin de Beaumont’s notes state: ‘25 proof engravings of Arthur Hughes’s illustrations to Tennyson’s ‘Enoch Arden’, Moxon 1866. In the 1866 publisher’s binding. From the Library of Lord Brooke of Cumnor [i.e. Henry Brooke], Leslie [Leonard] Brooke’s son.’ Plate 9 in this copy is reproduced on page 21 of the 1866 edition. This has the line underneath it: ‘ But when the last of these moments came, …’ Plate 10 in this copy is reproduced on page 24 of the 1866 edition, and is captioned: ‘Ev’n to the last dip of the vanishing sail…’ .The bookplate of Robin de Beaumont is on the upper pastedown. Binding: The cover design is after Arthur Hughes. Text sewn on two tapes. Gilt edges. Bevelled boards. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Blue pebble-grain cloth. Full gilt to both covers and spine. On the lower cover, stalks and ears of corn are blocked in gold between ‘branch like’ fillets blocked on the borders. A diagonal pattern is interspersed with butterflies, with a windmill’s sail blocked in gold on the centre. A single bell is blocked on each centre side, and on the centre head and the centre tail. The upper cover has sea motifs – sea shells on corners; ship’s chains and ropes on the borders; a ‘fish net' diagonal pattern with many fish ‘caught’ inside. An anchor is blocked on the centre. A bell and its wheel is blocked on the centre of each side and on the centre head and centre tail. The spine is blocked in gold. Along the spine, the words: ‘/ Proof plates to Enoch Arden./’ are blocked in gold.
Over the course of 10 years, Jan Sobota participated in four Helen Warren DeGolyer Triennial Competitions. Every three years the Bridwell Library on Southern Methodist University’s campus cho…
