Ref: AWD0002

Rescued book heading for Landfill. Vintage 1950’s button attached as part of the book’s closure.

Detail 2- showing exposed spine with Coptic stitching. Yellow linen thread. Bound with 100gsm Conqueror watermarked writing paper.

Showing full open view.

Detail showing end papers purchased from the V & A museum shop, London. This was the only material that was purchased from new.

Ref: AWD0001- SOLD-

Open covers (cleaned). Adapted long stitch through leather detached spine. Kettle stitch top and bottom of spine.

Showing details of end paper and 100gsm plain Conqueror writing paper.

A few pages of the original book was included as a ghostly reminder of its past.

Ref: AWD0003

This Victorian book was in a poor state- the covers have been restored. Showing open view with gold thread and wrap around coptic stitch.

Detail of wrap around Coptic stitch with gold jewellery thread.

Several pages of the original book has been included. Bound with 100gsm Conqueror watermarked plain writing paper.

Open view. Covers cleaned. Long stitch over original cut spine. Kettle stitch at bottom and top.

Bound with 100gsm of plain Conqueror watermarked writing paper . Showing detail of red skim (paper separator) included in every alternate signature.

Several pages of the original book were included as a ghostly reminder of its past.

Ref: AWD00010

Open view of covers showing leather spine (off cut of leather from an English sofa manufacturer). Adapted-gathered long stitch through spine. Head and tail of spine- kettle stitch.

A few pages of the original book has been included as a ghostly reminder of its past

100gsm plain Conqueror paper showing end papers purchased from V & A museum shop.

AWD-00014

Open covers (cleaned). Adapted long stitch through leather detached spine. Kettle stitch top and bottom of spine.

AWD-00012

Adapted pamphlet stitch through leather spine.

Several pages of the original book has been included. Bound with 100gsm Conqueror watermarked plain writing paper. The Italian leather that was cut to make the spine, came from off-cuts from a sofa manufacturer (Sofas4u)

AWD00015

Bound with 100gsm of plain Conqueror watermarked writing paper . The book enclosure includes a sewn on wooden button on the front cover and two linen threads that wrap around.

Adapted long stitch through leather detached spine. Kettle stitch top and bottom of spine.

The leather used was cut from off cuts from wonderful leather from TBM- The Belt makers in Exeter.

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Several pages of the original book has been included. Bound with 100gsm Conqueror watermarked plain writing paper.