Life has been fantastic lately. I mean, sure, the government is shut down, giving my sister an unwanted holiday, making my mother work without pay, and possibly costing my roommate's parents their house, but all in all, life is peachy.
How could it not be peachy, when the Vandercook SP-15 looks like this?
And wood type prints soooo fiiiiiiine?
Tell me these letters aren't sexy!
And look at this mending. I mended that! I said, hey little book, let's fill your holes and strengthen your edges with fancy Japanese papers. Hey little book, let's be friends.
My workplace is never quite a zen garden... but I had so much mending and filling to get through!
How 'bout this marble/endsheet/leather combo, hmmm?
Here's a rebinding on parchment tapes. This book will be a limp vellum model.
Back in the Type Lab, everything is galore-ious, even when accidentally printing on tympan.
And I tackled the book plough for the first time! Here's my first-ever rounded and backed AND ploughed book. The plough makes the edges super slick.
As awkward as sewing on a frame was when I first learned last spring, I'm loving the sewing frame. I'm also becoming a little more ambidexterous.
Single cords:
Double cords (possibly my favorite, if the more time-consuming for me at the moment):
And here are these two paired with their leather and endpapers-to-be. Swoon!
Moose would like to leave you with a bit of advice:
