Wednesday 11 January 2012

Another Hairy Box

Talking of thick hairy card from Khadi, I made this box a while back for a book my family commissioned for our father's 80th birthday. Printed by the Libanus Press, it had some essays from Dad's favourite authors and a cut by Chris Wormell of a covey of partridges.
I bound the presentation book in brown morocco with a really nice hand-marbled paper. My brothers and I spent a frantic evening in a basement in the Gray's Inn Road sewing up and trimming the rest of the copies in a simple fold of blue Hahnemuhle paper.
When I got the book back after Mum's death I found they had kept all the thank-you notes for the big birthday bash in the box. 

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