Kaitlin Barber

Thursday 20 October 2016

A very important part of the bookbinding process is drying time. Patience is a virtue; as I wait for glue to dry I will take the time to update my blog with current work and adventures.

Yesterday was the judgment day for the U.K Designer Bookbinders competition. Fingers crossed! The studio was closed so I took the opportunity to see the Wellcome Library and check out the reading room and wonderful exhibits. I found them both informative and inspirational. The reading room was curated with historic and modern materials, objects and paintings all on theme of medicine.

Wellcome Library Reading Room

The work on my miniature book commission is moving along and I have been preparing tests using materials for the cover. The leather will be hand dyed to achieve a colour not available in commercially produced leather, making it one of a kind. I created swatches on un-dyed goat to test colours and different dilutions.

Dye Swatch

After completing my mock up for the miniature rose I created 12 for the cover decoration to reflect the content of the text and represent the 12 princesses. These were done using a magnified set of tweezers and plenty of patience.

Miniature Leather Roses and Magnified Tweezers

My next step is to begin work on the body leather for the binding and I look forward to sharing my results in the coming days.

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Kaitlin Barber

Kaitlin is a bookbinder and book artist from Toronto Canada. She is currently working as the first Artist in Residence at Studio 5 in London completing a miniature book commission for the collection of Neale Albert. She has a deep appreciation for the all-encompassing nature of the art of the hand-made book. The artist is in total control of every aspect of the work creating interplay between concept, text, and image. Cover design, hand printed endpapers, and content come together forming a narrative, influenced by the text, but going far beyond. After studying graphic design and printmaking at The Ontario College of Art and Design Kaitlin completed The Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild Diploma program gaining an introduction to the fundamentals of book construction. She is a recent graduate of the two-year bookbinding program at The North Bennet Street School in Boston, Massachusetts. Kaitlin has held conservation internships in the Rare Books departments of The Boston Public Library and New York Academy of Medicine. In 2016 she was awarded the Nell Meldahl Work-Study Scholarship for Paper & Book Intensive in The United States. In 2016 she traveled to London to study contemporary design binding at Studio 5 with internationally recognized and exhibited Mark Cockram. During this time she bound submissions to the International and UK Designer Bookbinder competitions. Mark is the inventor of many proprietary techniques in book construction, decorative techniques and creative problem solving. Studying with Mark has opened Kaitlins eyes to the immense variety of ways in which colour, texture, and materials can be used to achieve flow throughout the work, creating a rich experience that is both visual and tactile.