About a month ago I introduced Bärbel who had to leave school at the age of 13~14 following the death of her father, and go off to learn a t...

Bärbels fröhliche Lehrzeit ( Bärbel's Happy Apprenticeship ) by Felix Riemkasten was written in 1953, and is a charming piece of teen l...

Bin dabei etwas in der Fachbibliothek zu stöbern und fand im 12. Jg. vom Falzbein (1959-60) diesen Aufsatz zum them Sicherheit und Risikobe...

Mehr Karikaturen aus'm Falzbein , 1948. Das Falzbein war die Lehrlingszeitschrift und erschien als Beilage zum Allgemeinen Anzeiger für ...

Best of luck to all those working on their final projects and exams at North Bennet Street School, American Academy of Bookbinding, Universi...

The ground in Syracuse (NY) still has snow and the temperatures are still unseasonably cold from time to time, BUT the Sun crosses the Equat...

Recently acquired volumes 1-9 (of 12) of the Falzbein (the Bone Folder ), the successor publication to the Buchbinderlehrling . The first vo...

The glue smells really peculiar today... [mustard] From the Falzbein (December 1959, Heft 9, 12Jahrgang) I remember seeing this and do...

Seen on the QEW ( Queen Elizabeth Way ) leaving Toronto, Canada on the way home this afternoon... One of the most hideous highways I have ha...

And now a slightly different depiction of bookbinders at work. The embarrassed gentleman at left is in all likelihood a journeyman binder w...