Book Restoration, Print, Publish, Thesis, Tuitionhttp://www.otterbookbinding.com/home/en-GB2010-02-09T12:15:36ZSquarespace Site Server v5.9.1 (http://www.squarespace.com/)Wooden Bookbinding Workshop a Successhttp://www.otterbookbinding.com/home/wooden-bookbinding-workshop-a-success.htmlMarysa2009-11-13T12:40:23ZOur recent bookbinding workshop with Royston Hayward of the British Library was a great success. We learned to do an Ethiopian Codex style of binding, using Cedar Wood boards and plaited leather clasps, and by the end of the weekend everyone had a completed book to go home with.

]]>Wooden Board Bookbindinghttp://www.otterbookbinding.com/home/wooden-board-bookbinding.htmlMarysa2009-06-05T21:14:47ZIn a first for The Otter Bindery, Marysa de Veer has produced a fine wooden board binding in partnership with her partner Marcus Sly. Marcus is a cabinet maker, and together they have made a binding for The St Brides Notebook (printed by the Incline Press) using a combination of contemporary and traditional Coptic techniques.

The book is sewn on leather tapes using the link stitching method - otherwise known as French sewing. Because the spine is exposed, the book is able to lie flat at whichever point it is opened. The wooden boards have been prepared by chamfering the spine edge to take account of the swell of the book and thereby fit the book perfectly. The tapes are fed through sunken in channels in the wooden boards and are then fixed in place. The endpapers are made with green suede and Dutch recycled guilder notes. The wooden boards are made of quartersawn brown oak with a shellac finish.

For more pictures click here.

]]>Crafts Beautiful Magazinehttp://www.otterbookbinding.com/home/crafts-beautiful-magazine.htmlMarysa2009-04-29T21:37:24ZCrafts Beautiful Magazine July 2009 article:

]]>OPEN AFTERNOON Saturday 1 August 2009 3.30 pm - 5 pmhttp://www.otterbookbinding.com/home/open-afternoon-saturday-1-august-2009-330-pm-5-pm.htmlMarysa2009-04-28T14:15:07ZCome and find out more about bookbinding, learn a little about our Saturday workshops, make a concertina binding for free.

]]>Richard and Judy Book Clubhttp://www.otterbookbinding.com/home/richard-and-judy-book-club.htmlMarysa2008-12-12T14:40:00ZTen books were bound for the Producer of the popular Richard and Judy Book Club show. The books were re-bound from off the shelf ready bound books.  The newly bound books were given hand marbled endpapers, over cast sewing, gilt edges and full leather covers with marker ribbons and headbands.  The finished books then had slip cases made especially to fit each book.

]]>Marysa de Veer Binding Highly Commendedhttp://www.otterbookbinding.com/home/marysa-de-veer-binding-highly-commended.htmlMarysa2008-11-18T19:27:26ZNovember 2008  Marysa's binding of Daphne du Maurier's 'Don't Look Now and Other Stories' was "highly commended" in this year's Society of Designer Bookbinders competition.  It is on exhibition at the John Rylands Library until the end of January 2009.

You can see more pictures of this book here.

]]>Book Bound for Queenhttp://www.otterbookbinding.com/home/2008/8/3/book-bound-for-queen.htmlMarysa2008-08-03T13:14:19ZPrize for Restorationhttp://www.otterbookbinding.com/home/prize-for-restoration.htmlMarysa2007-07-07T12:55:00ZMarysa wins second prize for restoration of book in Society of Bookbinders Competition. www.societyofbookbinders.com]]>