Quarter Leather Binding with Aya Nishio-sensei. Last year when I came to Japan, I spent only 1 day with Aya-sensei. And this year, I wanted to spend more time with her. So I decided to learn English Quarter Leather Binding with her this time, and spent 4 days with her. I admire her precision with measuring and marking out, and that is a great asset because, I can get really impatient with measuring and end up making a lot of mistakes. It is not easy to pare leather to such thinness and uniformity. I also spent some time learning gold tooling and I was very much ambitious at first. I could only manage 2 gold lines on my book and decided not to do the more complicated designs to prevent destroying the book. Aya-sensei is not comfortable having her photos taken hence, I can only show, the brilliance of this woman, through this lovely book we made together.