手取川製本 ~ Tedorigawa Bookmakers

Every three months is a schedule, isn’t it? Bookbinding This week in Bookbinding we have two A6 (pocketbook) blank notebooks with colorful covers. Mostly. Why? Because my  printer broke. This saves you all the time and effort of reading what is inside but gives you the opportunity to write whatever you wish! A win-win situation for all. The First Book is A6 blank notebook with a Japanese protruding rectangle on the front covered in a Chiyogami paper. 100 pages (five signatures of five folios each)

Bookbinding This month we’ve struggled through a couple of books, one of which is practice for next year’s daily schedule. Why is it practice? Because today is Valentine’s Day 2023, a little late for this year’s schedule. The other one is a finished blank notebook. It’s about 100 pages, has a chiyogami-esque cover with blue spine and fore-edges. It is A5 (pocketbook) with, I believe, 7 signatures. I’ve sent it off to the customer so I can’t check the precise number of signatures. Each page is

Bookbinding I have completed two A6 (文庫本 / pocketbooks) books. The first colorful one is a practice coptic binding with colorful covers as practice for the second. Both are, as I mentioned before, A6 (4 by 6 inches for our north American brethren who life south of the Canadian border). The colorful one is 100 blank pages. Suitable for scribbling, drawing, or note-taking. I practiced not only the sewing (with a thread that was new to me) but also cover design (?). Not really design, but variety. On

Bookbinding I’ve completed a few books. First up is my novel The New Crucifixion. Political intrigue made more complex by religious dogma. For a client for Christmas so it’s been sent out hopefully on time but if not, they can read it during the New Year’s holiday season. It is A5, 148 pages with extra pages advertising other novels Ive written about here (the first chapters of Growing Slurry, Abacus Longing, and Heart of November). As requested by the client, I hasten to add lest people complain

Bookbinding This month, you have three items. First: An A6 coptic schedule for 2023 complete with a 2023 and a 1938 calendar (the birth year of the client), and monthly and weekly calendars. Nine signatures. Second: an A5 novel of 12 signatures (182+ pages) titled The New Crucifixions for a client whose father is featured on the cover. Third: a graph paper blank journal (also A5) for your budding graphic artist friend / master doodler. Fiction In fiction, you have a plethora of novels in the throes

Bookbinding In the past week or so two things have happened: First, the sun has stopped torturing the northern hemisphere so my studio/house/city/country is not sweltering under 100 degree temperatures any more; this is good, in case you were wondering. Second, I completed two blank notebooks. Both are pocketbook size (for the American viewer) or A6 (for the rest of the world) with approximately 100 pages. Both have straps to keep them closed. One has a bluish purple-ish cover while the other sports

Bookbinding I have had a productive day, yes! Earlier in my life I folded six signatures of A5 paper into A6 size paper, made some covers, and waited. Yesterday, I put the covers and the paper together to form a blank notebook. Two of them. Both have straps to keep the notebook closed. Both have Japanese-style endpapers that coordinate with the covers. One book is yellow with green/yellow/light blue endpapers while the other notebook is red and blue with reddish-blue endpapers. Meanwhile, earlier I