#edition binding

10 Watercolour Travel Journals 

Once in a while, I do edition bindings. This is the second book produced by my customer for his travels in Indonesia in 2018. Back in 2017, he made 6 copies of his first book, and also following the look set back then, we decided to keep the batik element in the books.

We chose a single colour batik this time, bound using the same disappearing spine Bradel binding, using a matching solid blue book cloth to break the patterns. The books are all unique, having a different part of the batik on the cover, as well as different colour endpapers. My favourite ones was the one with the huge peony on the front. Unfortunately, I forgot to photograph the endbands, which I made using part of the batik pattern. 

Throwback to 2017 in Reverse - Recent Bindings to Early bindings in 2017

Now that life is sort of back in track, I am taking some time to update this website again with some of the works that I did in 2017. There were not a lot of work, but they were meaningful, interesting and very special works. 

This is an edition binding I did for a customer who went on a trip to Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Maluku in Indonesia with 6 other travellers in his group. He did watercolour paintings on the trip, which he scanned and put together a journal about the trip.

In this first edition run of 6 copies, I did a flat back Bradel binding, with a disappearing spine using batik cloth that was provided by my customer. He chose a nice blue book cloth to keep it classic and elegant. I matched the endpapers to the colours of the batik that was featured on the spine.