A brass hand tool used for gold tooling on leather. The shank is stamped Cooper & Fry Philadelphia.
Using a historic tool from the city where the book was printed! #goldtooling #finishingtool #phillyhistory #conservationispy
Brass tools for hand lettering and gold tooling. They are on a bench next to practice leather with blind tooled title panels
Practice, practice, practice! #bookbinding #bookconservation #goldtooling #titlelabel
Now I’ve put a Scottish wheel on a bookmark. What’s next?? #scottishwheel #leatherbookmark #heirloombookmark #goldtooling
La cagué con el color y tuve que rehacerlo con mucho cuidao y paciencia #encuadernacion #encuadernación #bookbinding #goldtooling (tiempo real 40-50 min)
Scottish wheel binding tooled with 23k gold leaf #bookbinding #goldtooling #edgegilding #scottishwheel #finebinding
First American edition of Bram Stoker’s Dracula #bookbinding #finebinding #goldtooling #dracula #bramstoker
Large family history with a mix of 23k gold and white gold tooling, plus gold tooled silk doublures and flyleaves. #bookbinding #finebinding #goldtooling #silkdoublures
Design binding (blank book) with rough edge gilding, hand painted vellum inlays, 23k gold tooling, and cloth doublures and flyleaves. #bookbinding #finebinding #designbinding #paintedvellum #goldtooling
Design binding of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, with pictorial leather doublures #finebinding #designbinding #bookbinding #goldtooling #frankenstein #maryshelley #classicliterature
Scottish wheel binding of Prelude to Chemistry by John Read. This is currently available here: www.luxmentis.com/pages/books/... #bookbinding #finebinding #scottishwheel #goldtooling #alchemy #preludetochemistry
Fine binding of An Old Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott #bookbinding #finebinding #goldtooling #louisamayalcott
