Feilding Intermediate School with their 'Give it a go' programme.

The set of 12 freshly 'cased in' journals are placed top and tail under a clean flat board covered with some heavy weights. The books are best left like this overnight before anyone opens the Journal. As the glue dries fully the strength of the construction increases and  after some hours under pressure the book will open right out and be very strong. ( I let the students take their Journals with them and they promise to put them under a stack of books overnight before 'opening' them in the morning.)

Tim's concertina books

The set of 8 books sitting ready to have the covers attached with bookcloth spines.

Checking the section.

Beth is carefully locating the slot (created by a hack saw) to take the wax thread through to the cord in the stringing frame.

Handsewing sections.

The sections are sewn one at a time onto the cords which are fixed to the sewing frame. Beth is carefully locating the cord and at the same time keeping pressure on the pages so the needle will carry the wax thread into the correct place.

Exotic Case.

This case has a handmade, textured and cool look and feel. It folds down to wrap around the set of sections in preparation.

Beautiful Sections.

Beth has completed the sewing of 3 sections, wrapped the spine with white paper about to trim 2 x endpapers to attach the sections to the case. In the photo you can see the yellow ribbon glued in the spine section to be used as a book mark. The wonderful markings on the watercolour paper has been applied by hand!

Bookbinding with Beth.

Beth has laid out 8 different sets of cases all to be filled with handsewn pages.

Paul Gummer with bookbinding class

Lucy demonstrates glueing the bookcloth to the boards to the class.
T.J's book.
The 'making a journal day ' was fantastic. We measured, cut, glued, embossed and raved!
14 students was the biggest group Paul and had worked with over the last 8 years. Paul didn't sit down the whole day as he was helping with logic, technique, quality and inspiration.
Congratulations to him and to all the young artists for the days results.www.theimprint.co.nz