This
is the job I had been working on for the last couple of weeks. They were done
last week and have been picked up by the client already. The client had the
original hand written musical notes of some of the world's famous composers, and
he wanted archival leather clamshell box and folder made for each manuscript. Each document was
only 2~3mm thick, (a few sheets of papers) so I had to add some extra thickness
on the base. Anyway, the actual documents aren't in the boxes or folders on the
pictures as the client took them with him. They are too priceless to leave with
someone else! That really troubled me psychologically though. I mean, not having
the actual content when making boxes got me nervous. We, bookbinders make things
such as boxes thoroughly based on the content in terms of measurement and we use
it during the process. Anyway, while I was making these clamshell and folders,
somehow, I really got uneasy about the original measurement of the documents I
took. The thought of "What if I mis-measured the documents!?!?" got me... (I
even had a nightmare about the documents not fitting in my work!!!) So, I had to
ask the client to bring the documents again for me to re-measure.. I just
couldn't risk anything. (After all, the material had cost a fortune, let alone
hours of my labor...) Anyway, though the actual documents aren't on the pictures, they were notes of
Cole Porter (a collection of his songs),
Jean Sibelius (Malinconia, 1900),
Edward Elgar (Enigma Variations, 1898–1899),
Franz Joseph Haydn (Qual Dubbio Ormai, 1764).
This
is the job I had been working on for the last couple of weeks. They were done
last week and have been picked up by the client already. The client had the
original hand written musical notes of some of the world's famous composers, and
he wanted archival leather clamshell box and folder made for each manuscript. Each document was
only 2~3mm thick, (a few sheets of papers) so I had to add some extra thickness
on the base. Anyway, the actual documents aren't in the boxes or folders on the
pictures as the client took them with him. They are too priceless to leave with
someone else! That really troubled me psychologically though. I mean, not having
the actual content when making boxes got me nervous. We, bookbinders make things
such as boxes thoroughly based on the content in terms of measurement and we use
it during the process. Anyway, while I was making these clamshell and folders,
somehow, I really got uneasy about the original measurement of the documents I
took. The thought of "What if I mis-measured the documents!?!?" got me... (I
even had a nightmare about the documents not fitting in my work!!!) So, I had to
ask the client to bring the documents again for me to re-measure.. I just
couldn't risk anything. (After all, the material had cost a fortune, let alone
hours of my labor...) Anyway, though the actual documents aren't on the pictures, they were notes of Cole Porter (a collection of his songs), Jean Sibelius (Malinconia, 1900), Edward Elgar (Enigma Variations, 1898–1899), Franz Joseph Haydn (Qual Dubbio Ormai, 1764).
You did an awesome job and thank you for sharing something that is so unusual.
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