Video: Printing and Binding a Handmade Book

This video shows the stages involved in creating a hand-printed and hand-bound book. The book is a size known as an octavo, which means that it is made up of pages that have been printed eight to a sheet of paper.

The video has no sound and is 3 minutes and 29 seconds long.

Event - Handmade in Britain

Thu 20 June 2013 14:00

V&A Curator Joanna Norman discusses the ongoing V&A/BBC4 television series Handmade in Britain.

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V&A Leaf and Seed Notebook Set||RNWIT ||AFTGD

V&A Leaf and Seed Notebook Set||RNWIT ||AFTGD

Set of two layflat notebooks, one ruled and one blank. Contains 80 pages in each book, with two complementary covers in retro botanicals, 4 printed en…

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