Wandering westward. Heading home.

Last November we left the caravan in Waco, Texas, in the good care of Baylor librarian Josh Been, and then flew home to catch up with life and make books. In a few days Peter will be flying back to Waco, and then driving the caravan west, towards home. Please take a moment to look at the route, and if you are interested in getting in touch, or taking one of the workshops, send us an email.

We thought our wandering would end in 2018 but it has stretched into 2019. In a few weeks this trip will end in Albuquerque, NM,. Then later in the spring, or perhaps early summer, we will drive through Colorado, heading for Jim Croft's Old Ways Workshop in Santa, Idaho. In October there will be a show of our work at The University of Idaho, then we will drive home through Seattle, Portland, Eugene.

This last winter we spent our time at home binding unbound copies of our edition books, printing what needed to be printed, and Donna made a few stunning one-of-a-kind books. Below you will see one of them: A Great Song, Four poems Celebrating the Power of Nature to Transform and Inspire. The binding is the structure we call the Nested Accordion, which is described in our 2004 book More Making Books by Hand

A Great Song, Four poems Celebrating the Power of Nature to Transform and Inspire. (2019) Rainer Maria Rilke, Johann Goethe, Walt Whitman, Donna Thomas. (Full leather  binding with bas relief leather pattern on front and back panel covers. 14 by 8 1/8 inches. 14 pages, 5 watercolor paintings painted on location while backpacking in the Sierra. Nested accordion structure, running stitch design sewn on pages. Clamshell. Sold to the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley.