Happy New Year! The beginning of another year hails very well from The Windowpane Press. My children and grandchildren have been celebrating the holiday with me. And, lo and behold, my heart’s dream is coming a little bit true…my grandsons have helped me begin printing my New Year’s greeting this year. I put a photoengraving [...]
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The Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair took place this weekend and that gave me the opportunity to visit with my favorite book dealers, Bill and Vicky Stewart of Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers. In the interest of full disclosure, I must hasten to say that Bill and Vicky, who travel from one end of the country to [...]
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I am mentioned, and pictured, in an article in the October issue of Seattle Magazine (pp. 44-45) upholding the tradition and craft of “real” books as opposed to digital books on electronic devices. Seems there was a claim that more electronic books are sold than hardcover books and that inspired the editors of the magazine [...]
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I had the pleasure of teaching my class, A Book in a Box, with an enthusiastic group of newly minted book binders. During the class, two people served as photo-documentarians and tried pretty much to take pictures of every step in the process of constructing a cloth covered clamshell box. The box was constructed to [...]
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I wrote that Jill Alden Littlewood was the impetous for the project mentioned in my previous post, so it may seem that Jill is one of my favorite and frequent collaborators when you read what I have to say here. The first part is certainly true and the second is, sadly, not true enough.
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