TWO OF US PLACING IT OUT!

On Wednesday we were at Black fox Bindery in Stoke Newington with bookbinder Nicky Oliver to learn some of the stages in making our book. Jackie began by folding the sheets into pages and used a tool called a bonefolder to make the crease. We are making ten books so we did this process ten times. This is a precise job which Jackie was particularly good at.

Below are the folded sheets now laid out in neat groups of pages or 'sections'  ready for the next stage which is to sew them together. We will also have some lovely purple for the endpapers and here's the lovely Nicky preparing it for us!

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The pages are put in a 'cradle' to keep them in the right position and using a sharp pointed tool holes are made in the middle of them.

And below we are sewing with a needle and thread, through the holes from back to front with a special kind of stitch.

Once the pages were sewn we helped prepare the cover and then sadly we ran out of time! so we left it in Nicky's expert hands to do the finishing off.

So here is our beautiful book, entitled by Jackie : "TWO OF US PLACING IT OUT'  and a sneak preview of some of the work inside.  We are so pleased at how it's turned out!

​We will be having a book launch and exhibition soon, dates to be announced, please contact us at rachelthomsonstudio@gmail.co.uk  if you'd like to come along, see the work or chat with us about our project and we will send you an invite! 

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