When Designer Bookbinders' latest issue of The New Bookbinder, volume 40 arrived, the one with my article "Fish Tales: Experiments with fish skin for bookbinding", Fritz Otto was blown away to find himself and the salmon parchment/shark leather box he made included in the "Lockdown" section of the issue. It's a fantastic issue, that carries the subtitle/theme of "Creative covering; the clothes on our books." Fish skin certainly fits that theme.
"Lockdown" was a two-page spread of images from each of the issue's contributors with a brief blurb about what they had been doing during the COVID-induced lockdown we have all lived with since March. Lots of different projects, most binding related, some not such as mask making, gardening, and painting. It was a wonderful recognition that the work we do does not exist in a vacuum.
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| Checking out the cover with Nadine Werner's fantastically photographed paper folding. |
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| Hey, look, that's me! How'd that happen? You can't see it, but that's the picture from when I made that box. The Meister shot it on b/w film, something he has been getting back into. |
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| Here's the description on the back. Even mentioned my guide, the Bone Folder. |
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| Hmmmm, a sign of the world of total information control we live in. Instagram added this when the image was uploaded. Better watch what I upload, or not! ✊ |
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