Dear Everyone ~
I’m delighted to showcase several of my handmade books that have just been listed in the online shop: six Buttonhole-stitch books, two Long-stitch-link-stitch with hand-folded envelopes, and one Case-binding. I’m also pleased to announce that various customer favourites—awl you needle for stitching and punching and so forth—have been restocked, re-upped, and re-adied for you.
Buttonhole-stitch binding happens to be one of my favourite styles, and I recently experimented with miniaturizing it. I’ve made a quartet of these amuse-books, covered in the Grafiche Tassotti Sprigs & Twigs palette.
The two Long-stitch-link-stitch books with stitched in hand-folded envelopes feature Cambridge Imprint Peggy Angus-from-all-angles. These books are wonderful for an ephemera album or travel diary, as the pair of envelopes with string & button closures are perfect for filing this & that & what-have-you!
This Case-bound book is my very most recent book, made alongside two students via Zoom this past week. The Hahnemühle Bugra signatures alternate Light Grey & Marble Grey. Covered in Japanese Chiyogami, it measures a charming 5½ x 6 x 1.
Speaking of bookbinding, let’s! We have two new bookbinding needles in stock, one straight and one curved. I find that, depending on the book and the day, I might prefer a smaller or larger…and it’s nice to have a choice.
Our Winsor & Newton pen point selection has grown by two. We now stock the 0.05 (divinely fine line), and the 1.0 (thoroughly thick line).
Season Paper notebooks have been replenished in eight new designs.
Coccoina glue-sticks in the extra-grande 40g size are back in stock. If you haven’t tried this size before, we recommend it for sealing bigger envelope flaps, larger works of art, and collaging. It spreads evenly and allows for movability before it dries. And the best bit is that it smells like maraschino cherries!
Also back in stock are the tiny & charmola 2 x 2 (and 2 x 16-ish when open fully) concertina books from Hahnemühle. Perfect for watercolouring, swatching, collaging and … whatever-do-you.
Washi of the Season is now in full bloom, presenting an assortment of summery patterns & colours from Rainbow Plaid and Strawberry Fields, to Pale Pink Sakura and Colour Pencil Stripes.
I’ve also added a new Minä Perhonen washi pattern by Japanese textile designer Akira Minagawa: Keru neko—it’s the cat’s pyjamas!
We love these letterpress printed, pinhole-perforated red-bordered labels from Portland Stamp Co. They are included in our MORE Art of the Hand-folded Envelope kit, and we are now delighted to be offering them on their own. Ten labels of assorted sizes per sheet (5½ x 8½) available with square-corner borders or round-corner borders—and a sweet discount if you buy a sheet of each. The stock is not sticky-backed—all the better to deploy your maraschino glue-stick!
Almost SSD @ BZS, Bari