Blow-ups Happen
Cutting template, cut sheets, final product ready to sew into the text block.
As noted earlier, I’m in the cutting and folding phase of the Graven Images book. The engravings are presented through windows cut in enveloped sheets which will be bound into the book. Every window (13 in all) must be hand cut with an Olfa knive. It is a massive amount of work, but as of tomorrow, I will have complete 25% of the whole, or enough to bind 25 copies. Naturally, there are perils (click to enlarge images):
Tags: bookbinding, books, Graven Images, hand printing, wood engraving
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September 5, 2010 at 7:56 am
Painstaking work. You are one patient guy, Larry.
September 5, 2010 at 1:11 pm
I’ve been told that!