As many will know, fish skin for bookbinding, whether as parchment and tanned has long been an area of interest for me. This interest was sp...

 A new fish skin binding acquisition for the piscatorial collection. The Salmon of Wisdom from the Folklore Fish series. It is bound in sa...

Join me as I jump into some of my addictive, all-consuming, and yet, sustaining rabbit holes in  Down the Rabbit Hole: Embracing experience ...

Thank you to Gloria Conti , conservator working in Scotland who found this Italian newsreel from 1938 titled Le tante utilizzazioni della pe...

I was recently graced with a gift of two nice-sized steelhead trout skins by the fishmonger's wife. For a change they were a matched pa...

In 1983 the Guild of Book Workers organized a small set book exhibition of sixteen fine bindings on Cutcliffe's T he Art of Trout Fishin...

 So, I'll probably never "get over" piscatorial bindings, especially if they just scream using materials as metaphor. Here the...

The images below are a selection of those in Franz Weisse's 1938 article "Fischhaut - Fischleder - Fischpergament" published ...

Now available on YouTube, the recording from today's lunchtime webinar. 109ish viewers while live, not bad. Actually a great turnout. Go...

Neighbor, " the fish monger's wife ," continues to provide salmon skins, and never one to look a gift fish in the mouth, I gra...

Did something different today, made sunprints from my pieces of fish parchment. Love how the texture of the skins came through. Artic c...

We saw Fritz Otto helping turn that delicious mackerel into parchment . Here the binding one of the half-skins was used on, Hemingway's ...