Category: Bindings

Distinguished Winner Designer Bookbinders International Bookbinding Competition 2013 In association with Mark Getty and the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, Great Britain

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…

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…

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.

Binding: The Ravenna Mosaics One of the personal bindings carried out while working with Roger Powell and Peter Waters during  1962. Goatskins with gold tooling and blind blocking.  

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…

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.

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…

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.

The poem Ithaka, bound for Margaret Albert of New York. The book has been designed, illustrated and printed by George Kirkpatrick, as well as bound. The case represents a Greek temple with columns in white alum tawed pigskin, the ship on the cover being meant to sail into the box.