Colin Brown
Studio Holder
Here, each book is lovingly given a new lease of life, treated sympathetically using traditional materials and conservation techniques.
Made-to-measure drop-backed box for a restored bible.
New book with full leather binding.
Four 19th Shakespeare volumes. With new calf leather spines and some but not all, new gold-tooled labels.
19th century volumes before and after restoration.
18th century games book before and after restoration.
Ballet Shoes being rebound in a new full leather binding.
Sewing up a 1633 book at the Suffolk Show 2022.
Brown has previously worked at Mistley Quay workshops, North Essex, Artlab in Adelaide Australia and then south of Toulouse, France. Brown has been working at Cuckoo Farm Studios since 2011. Additionally he has worked intermittently at Corpus Christi Conservation Consortium in Cambridge since 2017.
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