Distinguished Winner Designer Bookbinders International Bookbinding Competition 2013 In association with Mark Getty and the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, Great Britain
Water
Binding for a hand printed book entitled ‘Water’. Winner of one of the sterling silver bone folder awards in the Designer Bookbinder’s international competition 2008. The book consists of a selection of poems on the theme of water in various languages and is illustrated with hand made prints by a variety of artists. I based…
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Binding of Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence carried out for Mike Garbett of Bristol. An optical illusion of three pillars merging into an archway is one which has existed in many forms over very many centuries. Here an interpretation of it is created on front and back covers and, together with the single…
Italian Stained Glass Windows
Binding: Italian Stained Glass Windows Another private binding carried out while working with Roger Powell and Peter Waters in 1962. Bound in goatskins with gold and blind tooling and blocking.
The Ravenna Mosaics
Binding: The Ravenna Mosaics One of the personal bindings carried out while working with Roger Powell and Peter Waters duringĀ 1962. Goatskins with gold tooling and blind blocking.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam – A Memorial. Towards the end of 1966 George Kirkpatrick took part in a series of programmes for Ulster TV on bookbinding. The studio manager was very enthusiastic about the work and later gave a small commisson to bind a copy of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The work was…
Atlas of the British Empire
A miniature atlas bound for Neale Albert of New York. The binding is goatskin and has been decorated with an onlaid map of the world, the British Empire in pink. The book has been enclosed in a globe made with silver hinge and catch which has again been inlaid and onlaid with a world map…
Essex Police Book of Remembrance
Binding for the Essex Police Book of Remembrance with detail (below) from the back of the book representing the saffron crocus (stamens in gold) of Saffron Walden. The binding of this vellum manuscript book is in goatskin and pigskin with gold and palladium tooling.
Alphabets of Stones
Book designed and hand-printed by George Kirkpatrick, using inkjet on bockingford paper. It is a collection on five complete alphabets found naturally occurring on pebbles and stones from British beaches which have been collected over several years by George and his wife Gillian Tait. They have been photographed as found without any alterations. The binding…
Royal Ulster Constabulary Book of Remembrance
Detail from the binding of the Book of Remembrance for the Royal Ulster Constabulary. With (below) the binder discussing his work with H.R.H. Princess Alexandra at the unveiling ceremony. This vellum manuscript book has now had five more volumes added to it.
Blessed are the Peacemakers
Heart box made and presented to Dr. Mo Mowlem, the then Northern Ireland Secretary in the British Government. She had worked tirelessly and with persistence and good humour for peace in Northen Ireland and with US President Bill Clinton and others oversaw the talks leading to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. The inlaid shamrock…
Kaleidoscopes
A selection of kaleidoscopes bound with inlaid and tooled leather. These kaleidoscopes do not contain loose elements for pattern-making but instead a lens and prism make patterns from one’s surroundings. The kaleidoscope was invented by Professor SirĀ David Brewster in 1816 at St Andrew’s University, Fife. Four views of a kaleidoscope. This kaleidoscope was made…