This summer I finished this commissioned piece: a binding for a travelogue detailing an American couple's adventures while living in Brussels for a time. The book is housed in a secret Belgian binding, with the boards covered in Belgian flax paper.

In a secret Belgian binding the cover is made by weaving thread over and under discrete spine and cover pieces to join them into a single unit, and then the text block is sewn to the cover. A feature of the secret Belgian binding is that you can open the front cover all the way around to the back (or the back all the way around to the front); it works like a magic wallet.