[EKStationers] Various doings and a possible project

[Apollonia Voss]

Have you all seen "The Bookbinder's Largess" project?

Might that be an idea?
http://home.insightbb.com/~denevell_books/largesse.htm

Also: www.scalinks.com (AKA the Atlantian MOAS site) is 
growing a nice collection of bookbinding links:

http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/wsnlinks/index.php?todo=orderlinks&action=displaycat&catid=82&orderlinks=id&ascdesc=desc&perpage=50

<sigh> Someday, I'll get to play with papers and binding 
with you all.

~A
Apollonia Voss



  As some folks on the list know, mostly I've been working
on the simple
  bindings for Lyle's and my adapted blank girdle books
(for sale), and I've
  been looking at chemise bindings and taught a little
class on that last
  spring.  Then Lyle taught a couple of classes on coptic
binding and limp
  binding this fall and has since worked out how a limp
binding with a
  reinforced spine was done, so now I'm thinking of making
some of those for
  Birka.  Lyle's working on fleshing out the handouts for
both and should be
  done with them soon and have them ready to send out to
whoever would like a
  copy.
  
  A few of us were talking about the possibility of making
a presentation at
  EK 12th Night. Lyle and Iheronimus will be working on at
least a draft of
  the charter this month, thanks to all the research and
discussions we've
  had, both on the list and in person.  Not sure if that
will be done for 12th
  Night or not, but in the meantime, we could do a simple
project that we can
  be sure will be done by then.  The limp bindings with 
the
reinforced spine
  look really cool, so I'd like to propose some of us make
some to give to the
  king and queen, for them to use and/or give as gifts to
whomever they'd
  like.  Limp bindings seem to have the advantage as gifts
that they aren't
  quite as intimidating to the receiver as the hard
bindings -- it was
  probably about a year before I could bring myself to
start writing in one of
  my own hard bindings, but the limp bound book I made in
class this fall I
  started using the next day, and have been bringing with
me to meetings, etc.
  
  In period the spine was usually reinforced with a piece
of vellum, but
  occasionally another piece of leather was used.  This
gives us the
  possibility of working in more than one color.  There is
also some simple
  decorative stitching on the spine -- looks like a
chain-stitch on the
  outside -- which is a nice detail that adds to the
appearance.  There are a
  couple of leather buttons attached to the spine as well,
and there are a
  couple of straps that wrap around the book and then the
buttons, to close
  it.
  
  What do people think of the idea of making some of these
for gifts?
  
  Cheers,
  Elwynne
  
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