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1HuxleyTheCat
jul 6, 2015, 5:48 pm

Does anyone have an experience of binders in the UK? I have a potential rebinding project and I haven't ever done one before so I'm a bit in the dark with regard to the type of questions I should be asking. The project is a 10 vol edition of Pepys Diary. Any help gratefully received - thanks.

2affle
jul 6, 2015, 6:10 pm

>1 HuxleyTheCat:

Fiona, I haven't commissioned any work from these people, but they are very good quality, and are perhaps close enough for you to pay them a visit:

http://www.timwiltshire.co.uk

3HuxleyTheCat
jul 7, 2015, 12:07 pm

>2 affle: Many thanks Alan! That's really helpful. I gave them a call, spoke to Tim and will go along to see them as soon as I can arrange it. He and I appear to be on the same wavelength as to what would suit the books, which is a very good start.

I had sent a couple of emails to random binders yesterday and received a lovely reply from Glenn Malkin of www.signaturebindings.co.uk this morning. He wouldn't be able to do the work any time soon as he's fully booked for months, but he gave me a very good idea of options and price ranges for each. (This https://youtu.be/f96v8LRyblw video of him creating a designer binding for the FS Breakfast at Tiffany's is worth watching).

I've been considering for a while doing a bookbinding course, so I'm going to sign up for the residential short course at West Dean College on Bookbinding for All.

4affle
jul 7, 2015, 3:57 pm

Thanks for the film link, Fiona - I am not sure I'd be encouraged or daunted if I were about to embark on a bookbinding course, but that's a wonderful display of craftsmanship. Malkin's tools and equipment are fascinating - more interesting to me than the artiness of the design.

5lilithcat
jul 7, 2015, 4:22 pm

>3 HuxleyTheCat:

I've been considering for a while doing a bookbinding course

I should warn you that if you are at all the sort of person who can't go into an art supply shop without coming out with lots of things you weren't planning on buying, be careful! You will end with a house full of interesting tools, decorative paper, and all sorts of other bookbinding accoutrements. You'll have to find space for the book press, the sewing frame, the finishing press.

Next thing you know, you are marbling your own paper . . .

;-)

6MarthaJeanne
jul 7, 2015, 4:50 pm

I'm a needleworker, but this looks very fiddly to me. Glad I don't want to add this to my repetoire. I already have enough interesting tools...

7HuxleyTheCat
jul 7, 2015, 6:36 pm

>4 affle: I agree about the craftsmanship and the wonderful timeless tools. I think I'm encouraged - (well, I must have been!) - as it looks a logical and precise activity rather than being freely creative. I'm looking forward to giving it a try and a week in lovely West Dean is worth having anyway.

>5 lilithcat: Is that the voice of experience I hear...?

>6 MarthaJeanne: I can't do needlework to save my life - I use a nice Chinese seamstress just at the top of my road - but I don't really see the physical construction of bindings as 'fiddly', rather 'logical and precise' as I said. I know I'm not artistic enough to ever consider decorative inlays or anything like that, but I don't think one has to go along that route.

8staffordcastle
Redigeret: aug 20, 2015, 5:18 pm

>7 HuxleyTheCat: HuxleyTheCat - I look forward to hearing about the course! What a lovely opportunity! Have fun!

9bluepiano
okt 19, 2015, 4:54 pm

>3 HuxleyTheCat: Chiming in with thanks for that video.

Has Mr Pepys a new cloak yet, by the way?