Levigator Press

Here is a little sample book I made for the longstitch binding class I’ll be teaching tomorrow night at Back Room Gallery. The pages are a mix of reclaimed papers, sewn into a cover made from some old cards used for teaching fractions, which I found at my favourite surplus store in Milwaukee. The book’s spine is a strip of paper cut from an old children’s encyclopædia, backed with cardstock for stability and glued to the cover boards, then sewn with a red zigzag machine stitch. Even the thread is salvaged from somewhere, although I can’t remember for sure where; it might be one of the items I’ve had on hand forever from the fire sale of school supplies that took place after a fire at Exeter Public School, some time in the mid 1980s. Yes, I am a hoarder when it comes to supplies.