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Leather-bound books are piled like bricks against the white-painted dado of this vivid hyacinth-coloured room. The strong colour makes an effective background for the modern pictures, and the diamond-patterned matting adds a nice rural feeling as well as forming a contrast to the elaborately carved pediment above the door.

English Country Style, 1986

革 — leather, revolution, innovation, reform. kawa; kaku (leather-bound = 革バインド. kawa baindo. revolution = 革命. kakumei. innovation = 革新. kakushin. reform = 改革. kaikaku)

This is one of the first handmade, leather-bound books that I have created. It was made using traditional medieval cord-binding techniques which is where the ridges on the spine come from. A lot of modern books with ridges on the spine are actually fake and only for decoration, but both methods have their pros and cons. Black, upcycled leather was used for covering it, with wooden swirls underneath to create an embossed look. I then used an 18k gold leafing pen to colour the swirls, and the centre gem is a lapis lazuli. This book has a latch on the side.