tedorigawabookmakers

Currently in production at Tedorigawa Bookmakers: Monk’s scroll - using the music of Thelonius Monk (”Straight No Chaser”) on a scroll. Rock ‘n Scroll - using rock music (Maybe “Stairway to Heaven”) on a scroll. Bach’s Scroll - using a Bach piece on a scroll and putting the whole thing in a box, of course.

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A short 50-second audio introduction of things not to come on Tedorigawa Bookmakers.

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Welcome.

Hopefully this site will help everyone - especially me - improve my podcasting, filmmaking, and bookbinding skills in reverse order. The main theme of Tedorigawa Bookmakers (blog at http://www.tedorigawabookmakers.blogspot.com) is to Project and Display my Works! Of Bookbinding.

How’d I get started? I don’t know. I don’t remember but I wish I did. One minute I was minding my own business and the next thing I know I’m checking out curved needles at the sewing store. Why? Why?! (Well, naturally for certain styles of binding, like coptic, you really do need a good curved needle.) See? Is that anyway for a grown man to talk? Gawdamighty.

(I refuse to go into the discussion I had in a bar one night with this tattooed, liquored up, hairless guy and his Italian cigar-smoking girlfriend. I refuse to say how I steered the conversation into bookbinding and glue. But they were pretty excited to talk about leather, let me tell you. Pity, though, I don’t use dead animal skins on my books. Just wood and paper. And glue. And beeswax. Hmmmmmm.)

I hope to update or cross-post on a regular basis. Famous words.

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Welcome to Tedorigawa Bookmakers. Here is a 56-second mp3 about why I got started in bookmaking. It all dates back to the day my friend came home from school…

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