Don Taylor: Bookbinder

2012-02-06T08:03:00.001-08:00

Bookbinding II Day 4 - Endbanding. Some brave souls tried a 2 core beadless endband. Results were very promising.

2012-01-31T07:18:00.000-08:00

Bookbinding II
Bradel bindings and sunken cords sewing

2012-01-24T10:18:00.000-08:00

2012-01-17T11:31:00.001-08:00

New in portfolios. A clamshell box to house an ipad. My customer wanted to personalize the tablet while protecting it. The iPad sits snugly in a well in the lower tray, easily retrievable using the ribbon. The outer shell is stamped with the company logo.

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Majesty Order and Beauty: Selections from the Diaries of T.J. Cobden Sanderson. Full calf with gold tooling. The design depicts the Dove's Press type falling into the weeds of the Thames.

2011-11-10T11:51:00.001-08:00

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2011-11-10T10:06:00.000-08:00

Hammersmith Bridge from where T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, friend of Morris, proprietor of Dove's Press and great bookbinder and eccentric dumped his trays of type to prevent them from getting into the hands of former partner Emery Walker.

2011-11-10T10:02:00.000-08:00

London October 2011

A pilgrimage to Hammersmith and the hub of "Morrisland". Morris's former home is now the site of The William Morris Society.

Kim by Rudyard Kipling 2006

2010-12-30T13:21:00.000-08:00

"Kim" is my favourite Kipling novel.
The binding reflects the two worlds that Kim inhabits. The back cover shows the "red bull in a green field" that is the flag of his deceased father's Irish regiment and the front cover depicts the wheel of life that is the preoccupation of the elderly Tibetan Buddhist lama with whom he travels and who provides protective coloration for Kim as he spies on two Russian agents surveying the border between India and Russia. The spine and edges are goatskin and the sides are painted paper.

late coptic binding London 2009

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late coptic bookbinding at CBBAG 2009

2009-09-05T08:39:00.000-07:00

2007-08-13T13:28:00.001-07:00

The finished product of "Bookbinding: in the Beginning" at the Haliburton School of the Arts - Summer 2007.
An Historical Hybrid that shows features from the Carolingian and Byzantine periods, the handmade paper bookblock was sewn on split thongs of alum tawed pigskin and bound in full goatskin with gold leaf showing through cut away pieces of the cover leather. Double boards lined with papyrus sandwich bone pegs which secure brass clasps with braided straps. Blind lines were tooled into the leather after covering. Size about 6" tall x 4 1/4" wide

electronic bento box

2007-06-04T06:41:00.001-07:00

"Electronic Bento Box" was created in 2006 for an exhibition sponsored by the Japanese Paper Place called "The Power of Two". 14 artists were given sheets of hand-made Japanese paper and asked to decorate them in the medium of their choice. These papers were then distributed by lottery to 14 other artists who were asked to turn the sheet into an object in their own chosen medium. The results ranged from pieces of furniture to a delicate little hanging mobile.

I chose a paper that had been printed by Susan Low Beer, who remarked in passing that it reminded her of an "electric hedge". To me it suggested a kind of light-up sushi but I liked the "electric" reference, hence the title.

Ossian

2007-06-04T06:13:00.001-07:00

This one has just been sent off to the Society of Bookbinders competition in England. "Ossian" purported to be a translation from the Gaelic of ancient epic poetry of the Scottish Highlands, brought to light by the researches of its "translator" James MacPherson. The collection, which romanticized the distant past of the Highlands, was a great critical and popular success.

After MacPherson's death a committee established that in fact the work was an elaborate fabrication. The poet Ossian never existed and MacPherson had written the verse following the style of Gaelic poems that he had liberally edited and into which he had inserted passages of his own.

This is a millimetre binding with goatskin at the head and tail edges and the spine and sides covered in one of my decorated papers that I thought suggested mist-enshrouded Highland castles. There is even an anachronistic hint of plaid on the spine if you care to look for it.

Geldhaus

2007-03-09T07:36:00.000-08:00

Geldhaus was created for a fundraising auction to benefit Dixon Hall's "Out of the Cold" program in Winter 2006. The theme for the auction pieces was housing so a combination of the ideas of money and shelter seemed appropriate. Geldhaus is a piggy bank with an architectural look and name.

Babel Brand Patented Library Flakes appeared in "Labyrint" a Borgesian book arts exhibition in Stockholm from Nov 06 - Jan 07

2007-03-09T07:07:00.000-08:00