Crowing Hens Bindery

07/27/2025

Hear ye! Hear ye! One spot left in my consecutive springback binding workshops ! Join us from August 11-15 for a springback binding intensive in Wi******er, VA!

We will be making the entire binding (and decoration) and its components from start to finish based on two exemplars from the 19th century.

All materials and most tools will be provided. You can find the link to register in my profile and on the school’s profile as well!

10/04/2024

09/28/2024

For everyone worried about me, I made it to Penland and I’m safe. No injuries on campus. Clearing fallen limbs today. On the upside, it’s a convenient way to hunt for oak galls. 🤷🏻‍♂️

07/04/2024

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2 color linocut postcard available at crowinghensbindery.com. Wholesale inquiries welcome.

06/29/2024

There are still a limited number of spots left in my upcoming workshop at the July 15-16. We’ll be making a leather facsimile of a Victorian pocket diary. It’ll be a fast paced workshop working from kits, no previous bookbinding experience is required. The link to register is up top! https://schoolforbookbindingarts.com/workshops-2024/

04/12/2024

NOMINATIONS ARE STILL OPEN FOR 2024 GBW AWARDS! The Formstack to submit is in my Linktree 👆The Deadline is Sunday April 14!

The Awards Committee of the Guild of Book Workers is seeking written nominations for the 2024 Lifetime Achievement and Laura Young Awards.

The Lifetime Achievement Award — This award recognizes significant contribution to the goals of the Guild and to the book arts field at large. Contributions may include areas such examples as education, professional practice, research, or mentorship. We welcome nominations from the larger community of diverse voices and experiences. The award recipient is granted lifetime membership with no obligation to pay dues.

The Laura Young Award — This award is given to an individual in recognition of sustained commitment to the Guild, that is, demonstrable service above and beyond to the Guild. Nominees must be current or former members of GBW.

All nominations must include a letter of support. Letters should be no more than 500 words (approximately one single-spaced page). Please include a brief biography of yourself and how you know the nominee. The most effective letters of nomination are specific about the contributions, attributes, and/or achievements that you think qualify the nominee for the award.

You may submit nominations via email or use the nomination form at: gbw.formstack.com/forms/nominations

To submit directly to the committee via email, please include the following in your correspondence: your name, the name of the nominee, the award for which you are nominating, and a letter of support to one of the following committee members:

Coleen Curry, Awards Committee Chair
[email protected]
Kim Norman
[email protected]
Mary Sullivan
[email protected].

***The deadline for receipt of nominations is April 15, 2024.***

Please feel free to contact committee members with any questions. More information about past award recipients may be found online: guildofbookworkers.org/awards.

03/25/2024

She deserves to be finished. What started in late 2020 now has a deadline this week.

02/02/2024

I ask not, “Is thy hope still sure,
Thy love still warm, thy faith secure?”
I ask not, “Dream’st thou still of me? —
Longest alway to fly to me?”

Did you know that Mark Twain wrote love poems? Me neither! This opening stanza is from his 1892 poem titled “Love Song” and it only gets better from there. I highly recommend you find it and read it in its quintessentially Twainian entirety.

You too could write a quirky quatrain for your beloved, beliked, or bemused. You can find them in my online shop. Link thata way! 👆

10/05/2023

Well, that’s a wrap! My second Standards was my first as a vendor, and *I’d do it again!* although I didn’t manage to take many photos, apart from a few of my table, and a few to be goofy, all I have are memories and dreams of next year.

Thanks to everyone I met in person for the first time for baring with my fangirling, and also to my dear friends that I get to see less often than I would like.

To those of you who placed orders for paper or a custom mini springback, those are in the works.

And if ANYONE got video of the poetry reading at the reception, please share it with me. 🙏