Binding Sampler (2019)

This is a great resource for your studio or for sharing with students. Nothing is quite like seeing a stitch close up. This book with blank cover-weight pages features the multi-needle Coptic stitch, packed sewing on double raised cords, longstitch over vellum, unsupported French stitch, herringbone stitch on split leather thong and kettle stitches. Pages off-white, gatherings have guards of Canson Ingres.
$95 + $8 shipping. SOLD (Email me to get on the waiting list for the next edition – robertalavadour at gmail dot com)

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Sewn Board Binding Cut-Aways

       

The Sewn Board Binding, as adapted by Gary Frost, should be in your binding repertoire, especially if you want pages that open clean to the gutter. This cut-away model reveals all the nuances of good construction. 4 1/4″ (h) x 2 3/4″ x 5/8″ (d). $35 + $7.50 shipping.  SOLD OUT (Email me to get on the waiting list for the next edition – robertalavadour at gmail dot com)

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Let’s Make a Book!

Learning something with a pal makes things much more fun.  This mini kit includes materials for two miniature books and one instruction booklet with relief-printed cover, all tucked into a reclaimed vintage cassette tape case. Not just a simple case – this is a sewn-board binding, a structure every bookbinder should know. Finished books are 2 1/4″ (h) x 2″ wide.  This is a signed, numbered, limited edition of 33 copies. $30 + $7 shipping.

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Relief-printed bookmark

Save your place in style. Available in orange or blue. $2 + $.50 shipping.

 

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Blank Journals

Each blank journal is a one-of-a-kind design, featuring reclaimed book cloth and vintage photos. Sewn in a sewn-board binding, pages are a nice text-weight sheet, suitable for sketching or writing. Spine is inset with a small message. $30 each + $$7.50 USPS shipping.

I’ll Never Tell

Unreliable Narrator

 

This is Gonna be Good…

 

‘Tis the Season (2018)

Take a quick peek inside:

 

Redemption (2018) was created in an edition of 7 copies and is presented in a clamshell box. The prose on the back looks at the definition of redemption and our complicated relationship with being stewards of the environment. Vintage trading stamps were adhered to Kitakata paper with wheat paste, then collaged into a multi-panel composition. Prose is silkscreened onto the BFK Rives accordion. Box measures 6 7/8 (h) x 4 1/4 by 1 1/4 (d) inches. Read more about this piece HERE. 

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The Kindness of Strangers (2018) was bound and printed in an edition of three copies. Relief prints on infinity-folded and pamphlet-stitched Rives Heavyweight panels with colored pencil in a clamshell box that measures 3 1/2 x 6 5/8 x 1 1/4 inches. (View construction details here.) SOLD OUT

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Yay, a new edition! Origins (2018) was printed and bound in a edition of 7 copies, five in black/white Duo bookcloth and two in red/blue Duo bookcloth. Pressure prints from collagraph plate with vintage carbon paper, porchoir, and silk screen. View more HERE.
Original text by the artist.  $335.

Origins, 2018