A century of Sunday readings had left the joints on this Douay-Rheims completely detached. We rebacked in matching russet goatskin and reinserted three loose signatures — a five-week project that returned home with all its inscriptions intact.
The client brought four years of letters, printed and interleaved with photographs. We bound them into a single quarter-leather volume with gold-tooled titling and hand-marbled endpapers from Cave Paper.
Two afternoons at a Syracuse church, examining forty hymnals and choir folios dating from 1878 to 1955. Twelve went home with us for immediate stabilization; twenty-eight were rehoused in phase boxes on site.
Six students, one long Saturday, twenty-two finished notebooks by four o'clock. Notes for next term: more time on the awl, less time on my introductions.
After a year of side-by-side tests with three tanneries, Hewit's paring behavior and dye stability won out. Notes on why — and on the tanneries we still love for other jobs.
A short thank-you note to the neighbors, clients, and quiet Saturday mornings that have made this small atelier possible.
We send a short letter three or four times a year — no promotions, just notes from the bench and news of the atelier.
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