Carole makes sketchbooks, notebooks and journals from her studio in West Wales.
Carole prints her own colourful, papers or book cloth, from which she makes the covers of her handstitched and bound books.
All the books are all filled with quality paper pages, cut and sewn into a variety of different formats. Decorative stitching, pockets, page markers and smart endpapers complete each book.
In order to print the cover papers a separate silkscreen has to be created for each layer of colour.The colours are printed separately to complete a pattern. Some designs have 3 or 4 layers of different colours making a wide variety of colour options available for each design.
Carole also uses fabrics from around the world and repurposed household objects for other unusual books. Remnants from Japanese kimonos have recently inspired a series of tall portrait format journals. Kimono fabric was traditionally printed on narrow strips of fabric which were then pieced together to create garments: this dictates the width of fabric available to wrap around a book and therefore its shape and size.
Carole enjoys teaching the craft of bookbinding and is always ready to take on commissions for special books.