Book Swap 2024 - Katherine Taylor

The next book to be featured from the NSBAG book swap is a hardcover book by Katherine Taylor. The cover is custom book cloth. The book is a rounded spine case binding with brown endsheets and matching striped endbands.

Book Swap 2024 - Jeffrey Cowling

Next in our book swap lineup is this handbound journal made by Jeffrey Cowling. Jeffrey's contribution is a flat back, case binding in full cloth.

Book Swap 2024 - Emily Brown

This unique book was made by Emily Brown for our book swap. It is bound in full cloth as a case binding, featuring a rasied frame and bee on the front. The cover boards and the pages are all cut as hexagons and the tricky hexagon endsheets feature a coordinating bee print.

Book Swap 2024 - Larry Cowell

This is Larry Cowell's handbound contribution to our group's book swap this year. This slim, hardcover book is a case binding in full cloth with perfectly-placed geometric endsheets.

Book Swap 2024 - Rhynn Winstead

Rhynn Winstead made this wonderful book for our recent book swap. The cover features Rhynn's meticulous embroidery and there are also hand-sewn endbands. The embroidery and the endbands are sewn using wool and silk loom ends. The pages are heavy mixed media paper. The book is casebound with block-printed endpapers.

Book Swap 2023 - Taryn Neufeld

Taryn Neufeld made this distinctive blank journal for the NSBAG book swap. This is a hardcover case binding with a textblock made of Academia paper. There is book cloth on the spine, endbands, and a nature-theme printed paper on the covers. You can find Taryn on Instagram: @tear.neuf

Book Swap 2023 - Andrew Fraser

Andrew Fraser created this handbound book for the NSBAG book swap. The structure is a flat-back case binding. The cover features Andrew's original paste paper with book cloth spine and corners.

Book Swap 2023 - Rhynn Winstead

Rhynn Winstead created this colourful book for the NSBAG book swap. The structure is a slim case binding in full cloth of natural Cialinen. The textblock is made with a series of painted watercolour papers featuring a variety of patterns and interesting folds. Rhynn was also the lucky winner of our door prize (which was a book about bookbinding) at our last meeting!