handmade hardcover notebook. white pages, yellow cover, light blue interior in a flower design

handmade hardcover notebook. visible is the cover (plain yellow) and the spine where the threads from sewing on the signatures are visible from the outside

#buchbinden #bookbinding

3 signatures sewn to the spine #matching pencil and bookmark

3 Lagen direkt an den Buchrücken gebunden, mit passendem Bleistift und Buchzeichen

#art #craft #bloomscroll #minimalMonday #kleineKunstKlasse #wattiskunst #bookarts

Second half of the instructions for binding your own copy of The Hunting of The Snark are now up on the Byopia Press blog.

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#ByopiaPress #BookBinding #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #BookArts

Every Dead Letter Office dispatch is built as an artefact: paper, seals, print, weathering, assembly. I want each piece to feel recovered, not manufactured. Join the email list for early access: www.docgalahan.com/dlo #BookArts #BookSky #DarkAcademia

Here's a quick reminder about our two hand-bound, double-sided leperello #zines...

💦 Hydrology is Tom's collection of reflections from the docks and waterways of the Isle of Dogs.

🌻 Sunflower has photographs by Dad and an accompanying text by me.

They're £6 each at bit.ly/leperello

#bookarts

Rare Care: Prioritizing the Personal in Rare Books & Special Collections Curatorship with Artists’ Books – SHARP News

NEW FEATURES ARTICLE

Anastasia Armendariz, "Rare Care: Prioritizing the Personal in Rare Books & Special Collections Curatorship with Artists’ Books."

Read it: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

#RareBooks #SpecialCollections #Affect #ArtistsBooks #Collecting #BookArts #BookHistory

In celebration of the 150th anniversary of its first publication, Byopia Press presents a DIY edition of 'The Hunting of the Snark'.
Instructions in two posts. Find the first here:

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#ByopiaPress #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #BookBinding #BookArts

Mahn Center for Archives & Spec Coll #OHIOUniversity is now official #WomensStudioWorkshop Repository institution!
We have one of almost every WSW #ArtistsBook produced + upcoming annual releases.
Learn more, schedule appointment: https://bit.ly/oulibraries-archives-questions
#ArtistsBooks #BookArts

The Book of Lost Love:

The book is a journey through romantic/3rotic memory, it’s not required to be linear.

#bookarts #artistbook #design #artmaking

Made this one last week, I will say I’m a fan of the purple and black.

#handmadebook #handmade #bookbinding #bookbinder #copticbinding #frenchlinkbinding #booklover #craft #bookmaking #makingbooks #bookarts #paperarts #papercrafts #handmadejournals #traditionalcrafts #sketchbook #journal

from The Book of Lost Love:

Bardo of Love and Loss

A collage of processed photos and poems, all original. Photoshop is the tool that allows me to create what I see in my mind so you can see it too.

#poetry #bardo #love #loss #photoshop #artmaking #design #bookarts #artistbook #typography

from The Book of Lost Love:

A Sunburned Prayer

Finishing up this multimedia sculptural artist book I’ve worked on all month. This is a collage of poems and pencil drawings.

#artistbook #bookarts #pencil #drawing #artmaking #poetry #design #typography

Kate Holland binding on Peter Koch's, Fragments of Parmenides. Photograph inside depicts refugees making the same crossing from Turkey to Greece nearly 2500 years later that Parmenides’s family made. #nyabaa26 #booktok #rarebooks #finepress #designbinding #artistbooks #bookarts

"I look to see how I can push the materials and do something unexpected."

Local artist, Sally Chapman, shares her wisdom in our latest Creators on Creating interview: www.poetose.com/pub/creators...

#art #artist #artists #bookarts #bookartist

Endpaper illustration for Tia William’s Seven Days in June - in an auditorium after a presentation, a young Black woman with curly hair hands a crumbled ball of paper to a tall Black man in a T-shirt.

Endpaper illustration for Tia William’s Seven Days in June - in a diner a Black woman with curly hair and Black man in a T-shirt sit in a booth and share milkshakes.

Photo of the book “Seven Days in June” by Tia Williams.

Last set of end paper illustrations from my collab with @illumicrate.bsky.social and @tiawilliams.bsky.social
This set is for “Seven Days in June.”

#art #bookarts #illustration #romance

The poet and his muse: the latest in an occasional series, spotlighting the multi-disciplinary work of #Penge artist-in-residence Cosmo Chancer...

Buy Cosmo's first poetry collection for £3 at bit.ly/cosmoxyoko

#zines #bookarts #colossivepress

Book 15 of 2026. I wish I had the book when I was a kid! It's also a great book for adults interested in making their own books and book art.

#booksky
#makeartnotwar
#readingchallenge
#bookarts

Reduction woodcuts by Gaylord Schanilec: This is a set of progressive proofs from Lac Des Pleurs: Report from Lake Pepin. Will be in the booth at the NYC ABAA fair. #nyabaa26 #woodcuts #finepress #artistbook #bookarts #rarebooks #booktok

Made a Miyazaki themed slipcase for my brother's birthday this week. Fits a Hayao Miyazaki concept art book I bought him a few years ago.

Linocut art printed on Bugra paper and Cialux bookcloth.

#bookarts #linocut #printmaking #miyazaki #fanart

Howard Pyle (1853-1911) was one of America’s most popular illustrators and storytellers at the end of the 19th century. The broad appeal of his imagery made him a celebrity in his lifetime.
#loveart #thattick #illustration #bookarts

The application deadline is approaching! Apply for this Center for Book Arts Fellowship and you have a chance to be eligible to apply for our ATBL Research Fellowship to also conduct research at @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Learn more & apply: centerforbookarts.org/book-art-res... #bookarts

Qur'an of Ibrahim Sultan. dated 830 AH/1427 CE.

#design #bookarts #830s #metmuseum #Islamicart #endpapers

Graphite drawing of a mountain with a tarn in the foreground.

My submission for World Book Night 2026 - The Mountains Are Calling. WBN United Artists invite you to read and respond to a text or book about mountains.
www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/pdf/WBN-brie...

#bookarts #bookness #WBN2026
@sarahbodman.bsky.social

Endpaper illustration of a Black man and Black woman making out in a cozy red booth. The woman is straddling the man’s lap as he holds the sides of her dress and looks up at her lovingly.

Endpaper illustration of a couple having a romantic evening at a restaurant. The man holds the woman’s hand and smiles at her.

Photograph of a book “The Perfect Find” by Tia Williams on a wood surface.

Another finished set of end paper illustrations from my collab with @illumicrate.bsky.social and @tiawilliams.bsky.social - for the book “A Perfect Find”.

#art #bookarts #illustration #romance

Illustration of a Black woman in a red dress leaning over piano as Black man in a tan jacket plays it.

Illustration of a woman in a red cloak standing in a living room looking surprised at two women sitting at a dinner table set with her favorite foods. One woman sitting is an elderly Black woman with pink hair and a colorful dress and the second is a light skinned Black woman with bangle earrings and her hair in a bun, her arms are crossed.

Photograph of book “A Love Song for Ricki Wilde”.

#FlashbackFriday to a 2025 client project I can finally share - endpaper illustratons for Tia William’s A Love Song for Ricki Wilde in collab with @illumicrate.bsky.social

#art #bookarts #illustration

We've just made our latest donation - £14 - to @stonewalluk.bsky.social from sales of our 40th Colossive Cartography, You Are Safe Here by @rachaelhouse.bsky.social.

Rachael is donating all royalties - £1 per zine - to this very important cause. Buy it for £2 at bit.ly/colossive40

#zines #bookarts

A bunch of Miyazaki warm-ups from this morning. Got a small project I'm working on as a gift for someone's birthday next week. #printmaking #bookarts #sketchbook

#Penge artist-in-residence and occasional poet Cosmo Chancer has just found out that it's Yoko Ono's birthday today. So he's rushed out a poem in her honour.

Yoko, of course, was the inspiration behind Cosmo's first poetry collection. Buy it for £3 here: bit.ly/cosmoxyoko

#zines #bookarts #yoko

We've just made our latest donation to @mariecurieuk.bsky.social from sales of our 61st Colossive Cartography, Women's Work by Julian Payne.

Julian is donating all royalties - £1 per #zine - to this VERY worthy cause in memory of his mum Linda.

Grab yours for £2 at bit.ly/colossive61

#bookarts

INTO THE FOLD is coming up soon and I will be launching new things.
The Winchester School of Art Artists’ Book and Zine Fair is on Friday 6 March 2-6pm and Saturday 7 March 10-4pm
FREE ENTRY

#intothefold #intothefold26 @unisotonlibrary @wsalibrary
#bookarts #artistsbooks #smallpublishers

Penge Pieces (After Yoko) by Cosmo Chancer • Colossive Press Cosmo Chancer FdA, artist-in-residence on the Penge Sculpture Trail, presents a collection of Penge-based 'performance pieces', inspired by Yoko Ono

Oh, and you can buy Cosmo’s first poetry collection for £3 at bit.ly/cosmoxyoko

#zines #bookarts