Posted in Weekword, tagged diario, dorothy parker, faute de mieux, poem, poetry, travel, weekword on April 27, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Sally over at Diario chose this week’s word, and it’s a great word. Trouble is that I’ve been run off my feet this week and haven’t had the time to do justice to it!
I’ll fall back on a favourite poem instead, hope you enjoy it. It’s Faute de Mieux, by Dorothy Parker
Travel, trouble, music, art,
A kiss, a frock, a rhyme-
I never said they feed my heart,
But still they pass my time
Posted in Commissions, tagged commission, coptic binding, poetry on December 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This is quite an old commission which I did back in November 2008, but I came across the photographs the other day and thought I might as well share it here. I really enjoyed working on it (and was incredibly flattered to be given such a job), there’s something very special about helping to create a family heirloom.
Thirty hard cover, coptic bound notebooks. The mountboard covers have been covered with white 120gsm paper, and the front covers have been injet printed with the title. The inside of the covers have been lined with black card.
Each notebook contains ten poems, written by the customer’s grandmother. The poems have been injet printed onto 120gsm cartridge paper. All the paper has been cut by hand.
The books have been bound with 100% linen thread, using the coptic method of binding which allows the book to be opened completely flat at any page.
