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Middlesex Bindery

@middlesexbindery.bsky.social

I will be open this Saturday for the 20th anniversary of open studios (and my 10th) at Western Ave Studios where the bindery is located . Come visit. 3rd floor.

#bookbinding #books #bookguts #handmade #bookbinder #guildofbookworkers #newengland_gbw #westernavearts #nbssalumni #umassbostonalumni

Ad banner for Western Ave Studios Open Studios. Saturday October 4, 2025 from noon to 5pm. 122 Western Ave, Lowell, MA 01851

October 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM

Judith Hoffman

@judithhoffman.bsky.social

Night Circus, a Guild of Book Workers exhibition is now online. My artist book "I prefer to go out in disguise" is in the show. You can see the whole show here: guildofbookworkers.org/current-exhi...
#artistbook #collage #drawing #guildofbookworkers #nightcircus

December 18, 2024 at 5:56 AM

Peter D. Verheyen

@peterdverheyen.bsky.social

Another find ...

1984, or is it? We're (with @groovegoujah) watching you ...

Binding on 1984 by @richard.minsky.
"When you hold the book you see yourself on the screen."

From the @guildofbookworkers 100th Anniversary Exhibit. More at bit.ly/4l1njau.

March 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM

Where No Ron Has Gone Before

@grandrevans.bsky.social

Post-conference haul, part 2: papers and prints. I don’t currently have a lab or a studio, but whenever I do, this shop cats print will be the very first thing I put up on the wall.

#Bookbinding #StandardsOfExcellence #GuildOfBookWorkers

Four sheets of decorative papers. The bottom paper is printed with blue lines in a wood grain pattern. The paper above is a pale pink with white leave imprints pressed into the thick decked paper. The paper above is a striking cross-hatched pattern in shades of blue. The top paper is a beautiful multicolored abstract pattern with the texture of a brush pressed into the paper in alternating shades of blues and greens.

Two letterpress prints side by side on a carpet. The print on the left is a portrait orientation titled Shop Cats: Bookbinding. It features two cartoon cats, one black, one white with a stripe on its head, going through 12 steps to create a book: cutting, fold & punch, sew, ploughing, round & back, spine lining, pare leather, cover, gild, pastedowns, press, it’s a book! Print by Yi Bin Liang, First edition, 2019. Two illustrations the poster would like to highlight in detail are sew, in which one of the cats is sewing a text block on a frame while the other cat bats at the ball of cord, and press, in which both cats are napping on top of a board, which is pressing down on the finished book to hold the glue in place as it dries.

The other print is titled Prayer for Mistakes and features a poem set in dark green ink by Stuart Kestenbaum. On either side of the poem, the paper has been dipped into blue watercolor, giving the effect of curtains or a river at the edges of the page.

November 12, 2024 at 2:47 PM

Where No Ron Has Gone Before

@grandrevans.bsky.social

Semi-obligatory photo of post-conference haul from the vendor's tables. I found pretty much everything on my list of bindery tools I wanted, plus a few that folks talked me into when they heard what I was interested in doing. #Bookbinding #StandardsOfExcellence #GuildOfBookWorkers