Veterok's photos

Most blank books begin their journey like this. I find it strangely pleasant and calming.

A diamond-shaped handle tool, filed from a brass rod. It still lacks that handle, though.

A loose facsimile of the 17th century Armenian binding with two leather clasps on wooden pegs. The insides of the wooden boards are covered with bright red patterned fabric on which the turn-ins are made. The linen fabric lining of the spine typically shows through the leather. veterokforbooks.tumblr.com

A facsimile of the 7th century Carolingian binding with oak boards. Photographed after the board attachment, before attaching the headbands and the leather. veterokforbooks.tumblr.com

Sewn on raised cords which are attached in the recesses made in the cover boards. I'm fairly sure the Armenians didn't use plywood. veterokforbooks.tumblr.com

My first try on the Armenian woven (or embroidered, as some say) headband with four colours of silk thread. veterokforbooks.tumblr.com

Lacing the boards. The holes in the corners are for headbands, which are sewn on laced-in cord.

I have recently began the project of documenting all my belongings by drawing small ink renderings of them. You might call it somewhat ambitious. I thought I’d draw them all in a book, or maybe a few books, so I chose a leatherbound one that I had made in a summer class taught by Tiina Piisang in 2012 as a fine binding practise. I have now drawn four pages of ink bottles and ink pen nibs, and one page of watercolours and various glues and lacquers.. veterokforbooks.tumblr.com

A full leather binding in handdyed morocco goatskin. Rolled leather headbands. Blind tooling on both covers and some crooked gold tooling on the front cover, because only god is perfect or maybe because I finished this in relative hurry. The back has seven round reliefs with gilt dots on them. veterokforbooks.tumblr.com

Brother to the other orange-brown leather longstitch book. Has two handdyed leather pad decorations on its back (sewn through, not glued on) and closes with hand-braided waxed linen cord. 160 pages of recycled paper inside. veterokforbooks.tumblr.com

Brother to the other orange-brown leather longstitch book. Has two handdyed leather pad decorations on its back (sewn through, not glued on) and closes with hand-braided waxed linen cord. 160 pages of recycled paper inside. veterokforbooks.tumblr.com

I recently bought approx. 80 rolls (meh, I know) of expired Ferrania Solaris film and it looks like this.

portrait for JKPP. Thread: www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/discuss/7215763078974... Might continue with this a bit later.

portrait for JKPP. Thread: www.flickr.com/groups/portraitparty/discuss/7215763161504...

personal journal, rescued from a lump of discarded test pieces. The flesh side of the goatskin has natural white paper with blue ship imagery. I was taught to be a firm believer in the hardcover codex format, so I am only now discovering limp bindings, most of which are very basic and simple yet surprisingly useful. veterokforbooks.tumblr.com