SQUEAKY BINDERS
Cornish Mines
Original linocut design inspired by Carn Galver, Rinsey Head and East Pool Mine
Three evocative Cornish Mine locations - World Mining Heritage Sites
6 Designs
Sunshine, Dark Blue, Green, Heather, Sky Blue, Moonlight.
Available as
Illustrated Notebook
A handy sized wire bound notebook containing 6 ‘Cornish Mines’ illustrations with blank, lined and squared pages for all your notes - makes a great gift too.
A bold and colourful design from an original ‘Modernist’ style linocut print by Lynn inspired by three Cornish Mines. One design, 6 eye catching colour ways feature in this handy notebook.
Width - 140mm (including binding) Height - 130mm Depth - 13mm
82 Pages (164 sides) - 19 blank, 128 lined, 5 squared, 6 double page spreads with illustrations.
Printed locally in Cornwall on sustainably sourced paper.
Squeaky’s Special Edition Illustrated Notebook
Our Special Edition handmade Notebook has a truly distinctive hard case cover containing all the ‘Cornish Mines’ illustrations and pages inside ready to be filled with all your lovely words.
A bold and colourful design from an original ‘Modernist’ style linocut print by Lynn inspired by three Cornish Mines. One design, 6 eye catching colour ways. Learn more…
This striking little ‘Cornish Mines’ handmade Special Edition notebook is very special. Our unique cover design has a square window containing one of the Cornish Mines designs protected by an acrylic cover which is held in place with solid copper or brass rivets. The whole case is covered with a granite inspired grey bookcloth.
Inside, we use complementary eye-catching printed marbled design endpapers to hold our 168 page book blocks safely in place. They consist of 27 blank, 121 lined and 5 squared pages with all of the ‘Cornish Mines’ illustrations spaced at intervals throughout.
We also add a multi-coloured, hand dyed page marker ribbon so you’ll never lose your place and smart headbands complete the book.
Size approx 140 x 130 x 20mm
“...for storytellers, yarn spinners, novelists, family journalers, bards, poets, hopeless romantics, doodling daydreamers, memory keepers, jotters, scribblers, scrawlers and every other imaginable creative writer and fabulous wordsmith - whoever you are! ”
Such a distinctive gift for creative journal makers who love printmaking and Cornish Heritage.
Postcards
Bold and colourful versions of my linocut print available as set of 6 Postcards.
A bold and colourful design from an original ‘Modernist’ style linocut print by Lynn inspired by three Cornish Mines. One design, 6 eye catching colour ways. Learn more…
A lovely set of 6 Postcards - one of each design - presented in an attractive drawstring organza bag.
Our 150mm x 150mm Art Cards are printed on FSC Digi Finesse Premiere Silk sustainably sourced paper in an organza bag - 195mm x 295mm in size.
Squeaky Binders ‘Cornish Mines’ range is perfect for one and all who love creative printmaking and Cornish Heritage.
Art Cards Wallet Gift Set
Complete set of all 6 Art Cards presented in a fabulous folding wallet for storing and display
A bold and colourful design from an original ‘Modernist’ style linocut print by Lynn inspired by three Cornish mines. One design, 6 eye catching colour ways. Learn more…
This special Gift Set offers you all six Art Cards - one of each design - presented in our new beautiful folding wallet to keep them safe and to display proudly on any writing desk.
Our 150mm x 150mm Art Cards are printed on FSC Digi Finesse Premiere Silk sustainably sourced paper, blank inside and supplied with 155mm x 155mm brown Kraft envelope, wrapped in a clear sleeve.
Squeaky Binders ‘Cornish Mines’ range is perfect for one and all who love creative printmaking and Cornish Heritage.
Squeaky’s First Choice Edition Illustrated Notebook
Our First Choice Edition handmade notebook contains all the ‘Cornish Mines’ illustrations with plenty of room inside for all your creative writings - makes a great gift too.
A bold and colourful design from an original ‘Modernist’ style linocut print by Lynn inspired by three Cornish Mines. One design, 6 eye catching colour ways. Learn more…
Under its distinctive dust jacket this striking little ‘Cornish Mines’ handmade First Choice Edition notebook is covered with a tin grey bookcloth echoing elements of the mining landscapes which this series celebrates.
Inside, we use our in-house designed special ‘Squeaky Binders’ endpapers to hold our 168 page book blocks safely in place. They consist of 27 blank, 121 lined and 5 squared pages with all of the ‘Cornish Mines’ illustrations spaced at intervals throughout while smart headbands complete the book.
Size approx 140 x 130 x 20mm
“...for storytellers, yarn spinners, novelists, family journalers, bards, poets, hopeless romantics, doodling daydreamers, memory keepers, jotters, scribblers, scrawlers and every other imaginable creative writer and fabulous wordsmith - whoever you are! ”
And such a distinctive gift for creative journal makers who love printmaking and Cornish Heritage.
The ‘Cornish Mines’ Range
Where Cornish heritage and printmaking combine.
Inspiration and technique
It’s not where you start from but where you end up!
Find inspiration where you can and let your imagination run riot.
‘I’ve got this idea’ says Lynn ‘for a linocut,’ pause: ‘And I want to use one of your images.’ ‘Yes, of course, no problem,’ I say being the kindly old gent that I am, ‘I’ll put it on the bill.’
I probably thought Lynn intended to create a linocut copy of my Mitchell’s Whim because when she shows me a draft of her design I’m in for a big surprise.
Not only are Rinsey, Carn Galver and East Pool on the same canvas but they are presented in a way that demands interpretation.
I loved the idea immediately and it’s realisations - first as a relief print and then as digital variations on the theme - just as much.
And it doesn’t all happen at once …
This is one of Lynn’s initial layout sketches
that she used to transfer the design onto the Lino plate,
that she then carved to form the relief profile,
that she then carefully inked,
that she then set up with the right paper
and she then finally pressed in Cap’n Jack
(better explain here that we’re not talking about a gnarled old seafarer but Lynn’s etching printing press which is fitted with a large capstan wheel reminiscent of a ship’s wheel)
and then pulled the finished print!
But, even before all that, there is this process of working out in your mind’s eye how each part of that process is going to affect the realisation of what you want to achieve in your project.
This ‘throwaway’ working stage of Lynn’s project is a thing of beauty in its own right, not least because you can see in its detail the expertise and effort required to translate an insightful idea into a fabulous visual outcome.
Fabulous workmanship…
… best Swiss steel, hardened , ground and honed to perfection, beautiful palm shaped cherry wood handles, solid brass ferrules …
… and the linocut’s not bad either!
Project - ‘Re-inventing the Wheal’
Lynn’s original idea to use a couple my images as a starting point for her Cornish Mines linocut has grown - if Lynn might say ‘blossomed’ I would say ‘exploded’ - in new ways and exciting directions neither of us had expected. We find ourselves engaged in a to and fro collaborative exploration of perspectives and media that for me brings fresh insights and renewed energy to a familiar story. Some of our individual and collaborative outcomes are shown below - there’s a lot, lot more to follow - watch this space!
The Mine
“A mine spread out its vast machinery.
Here engines with their huts and smoky stacks,
Cranks, wheels, and rods , boilers and hissing steam,
Pressed up the water from the depths below.
Here fire whims ran till almost out of breath,
And chains cried sharply, strained with fiery force…”
Excerpt from The Mine by John Harris the Cornish Miner Poet.