Moving

I'm in the process of moving to our new home and studio and I feel very much like this picture. It will probably take weeks until I will return regularly to my blogging, but meanwhile, I wish everyone a great July!

Japanese binding workshop

Yesterday I had the last workshop for the summer at Paper Source, Boston. I will start teaching there again in the fall, but I thought to just post a few pictures of the Japanese binding workshop. I also love their display of the p.s. collection of cards and envelopes, divided by color.
I wish to all of my students a great summer!

New in the shop

I had a limited edition of hand-bound books in the shop, if anyone is interested. I wish I could find more time for binding more books!

The actual Printing Art Fair

After preparing for the fair and reading the announcements in several blog, the fair itself was indeed a successful event! Letterpress demonstrations were everywhere in the Printing Museum and always big crowds were around the old presses. Because of the rainy day, we displayed our booth on the upper floor, in one intimate environment. People came from long distance, despite the bad weather. I did the paper marbling demonstration for part of the afternoon on the Museum front porch, along with paper making demonstrations by Susy Barbarossa.
I was lucky to have my booth next to the bookbinding demonstrations done by students of the North Bennet Street School; Bexx also had some great miniature books for sale. Among others, great vendors were Kelly of May Day studio, Rifferaff, Jennski, Rainy Planet Press, PaperBreakfast, Seadog Press, Bdesign and together on the same booth Pressbound and Albertine Press. One of my beautiful discovery of the day, were the limited edition books by Laura Davidson. They were represented by another vendor and unfortunately I was not be able to meet her personally. Some images of her book A tool Alphabet are here below. I'm sure other blog will post more pictures of the day, meanwhile, I would like to thank all the people that came to the fair. It was truly a great event and for me exactly one year since I have started this blog!

Binding books for the Printing Art Fair

A few pictures while I was preparing for the printing art fair, with new hand-bound books, exposed link stitch sewing, hand-made paper on the cover by my beloved Cave Paper, Japanese silkscreen endsheets and vintage ribbons on the closure. I have found an interesting article, about the link or chain stitch, if you are interested in some historical information about this kind of binding.
More pictures of the fair coming up soon!

Le scarpine di Sveva

Just a few words to present a new great shop on Etsy by an Italian friend of mine, I have encountered in the blog world. Something special, that I'm sure it will go very well for anyone that appreciate beautiful hand-made products!

Plastica, Los Angeles

Since I came back from the NYC Stationery Show has been very hectic here, shipping new orders and starting to pack and move to a new home and studio, by the end of the month!
So not very much time for blogging, but among my new list of retailers, I have discovered a store in Los Angeles called Plastica. Because of its name and because of the great design products feature in the store, I'm posting here some pictures to share. I think it will be a great place to visit!