So my most recent book binding project is "The Medal of St. Benedict". This was an interesting bind, because I used chromium tanned leather. This leather is primarily used in clothing and furniture. Normal book binding leather is tanned with natural ingredients and is called vegetable tanned. The difference is primarily in the feel and how the leather reacts to tooling and titling. I put a label on the spine made from veg. tanned leather for this very reason.
The papers I used on this piece are again my own design. It is a pebbled marbling with a Spanish wave effect. The text block was sewn on bands and then rounded and backed in the traditional fashion.
For the headbands, I used the same marbled paper wrapped on a piece of mizuhiki cord. I like this method, because its easy and it looks good. Its definitely not as strong and elegant as a sewn band, but its nice.
Thats it for this one, but I did want to mention, I finished reading "The Life of St. Lydwine of Schiedam" and it was very good. I got a lot of spiritual fruit from it and I hope to start writing reviews on the books I bind and read, instead of just showcasing my bindings.
Pax Tecum
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