Decorative box making techniques

I will be adding many descriptions and pictures which will take the mystery out of the making of these boxes, for the moment here are a few pictures detailing the covering of the book spines which we attached to many of the boxes.

 

pasting out leather

Pasting out leather.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

spines

Blind tooling the book spines.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

box making

We made jigs to make the assembly of the boxes more predictable.

 

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