Custom Boxes and Enclosures
A custom box or enclosure is the best way to store a book or other valuables.
Sometimes you just want a pretty box to hold your treasures in or to simplify your life with.
Clam Shell or Drop Spine Box

A pressure lid clamshell for my fine binding of "Peter Pan"

Velour pads visible

With the pressure lid open

With the pressure lid down

Inside of the clamshell

Velour pads that protect the binding

Clamshell of my fine binding of "The Progress of the Art of Marbling

A leather spine clamshell box for a repair broject

Bottom layer of a clamshell box, made to fit two books.

Top layer of a two box clamshell. The ribbon is from the divider between the two books

A pair of boxes, "Ideas" and "Plans".

Inside "Ideas" and "Plans"

Clamshell box and matching book

Clamshell box made for a client book
Preservation Enclosures

Custom leather portfolio binder.

Marbled paper interior of leather portfolio.

A rich green leather used for a portfolio binder.

A four flap enclosure for my binding of Longfellow's Hiawatha illustrated by Susan Jeffers

Rounded spine box spine view

A pop of fun inside the rounded spine box

Two album box with storage space for miscellaneous items (photo corner, and a string not pictured here).

Outside of two album box for a client

Three boxes made for a client's archive collection
Other Boxes

Another "Pagoda" box

Top view of a "Pagoda" box.

A view of the feet of this "Pagoda" box.

A collections of pencil boxes with different closures.

Two pencil boxes with ribbon lids.

Pencil boxes with hinged lids.

Another view of the hinged boxes.

Hinged pencil box with a knob.

Knobbed pencil boxes.

Paste paper tissue box.

Another custom paste paper tissue box.

Tissue box made with a Venetian printed paper.

"Pagoda" Box based on photos of boxes made by Bep Vangasteren who was inspired by Randy Parkhurst.

Remove the lid and the divider and there is a hidden compartment.

Custom-designed box, Made of board, geranium paper and spray paint marbled paper made by the artist.

Custom-designed box: Drawers with a top tray to organize my adhesives.
Tool and spacer box

Paper boxes

Decorative boxes of a variety of structures