Friday 10 July 2009

Reading Room!







The Reading Room has been a success!!

Wednesday 8 July 2009

Reading Roon Tomorrow!!

Libby Scarlett 'mapping the mundane'
Reading Room Tomorrow!! Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham Street! 4pm onwards for books and booze!

Tuesday 7 July 2009

Further Additions...

I am happy to say that lovely fellow bookmaker Libby Scarlett is now also on the bill for the reading room! A long with Sohphie Lee, Mandi Goodier, Lucy Vann and myself ( Caitlin Howard)!

AND we have a poetry reading! From Kate Dutton, wordsmith extraordinaire!

Art Crawl Map


Here is the map for the Manchester Art Crawl that Reading Room is part of!(we are in top right corner...) Sophie and I hope you can all make it down to the Castle Hotel on Thursday as it is going to be a brilliant night! click Art Crawl for more info on all the other festivities and arty things.

Thursday 2 July 2009

Reading Room Poster

Here is the poster for 'The Reading Room'......

Bookbinding beautiful!


A very good friend sent me this link from the Guardian website with these wonderful photographs of the Shepherds' Sangorski & Sutcliffe bookbindery in London. Have a look and a read! Brilliant!


Ali Strachan on binding books Money guardian.co.uk
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
At Shepherds' Sangorski & Sutcliffe bookbindery in London, craftsmen and women headed by Ali Strachan hand-produce books in a process unchanged for hundreds of years. Photographs by Graeme Robertson

The Reading Room

Check out Mandi Goodier's work on her blog!




'The Reading Room' is the name of our up and coming exhibtion at the Castle Hotel as part of the Manchester Art Crawlon the 9th of July...

Sophie and I will have some page turning creations for you to look at as well as our newest additions to the bill Lucy Vann and Mandi Goodier who will also be showing some inspiring and beautiful books...! We are very, very glad they can join us and we think it will be a brilliant day! So come down on Thursady afternoon/evening and see for yourselves!