Edge trimming rules have been mentioned the German bookbinding literature at least since Prediger in the first volume of his  Der in aller h...

The Kaschiereisen as this tool is known in German is made to shape and consolidate the spine of a book in backing where it was used as an al...

 A looooooong time ago, not to long after I started this blog, I introduced the Aufschabebelch , a simple tool that one could purchase or ma...

The Complex of All of These by Abigail Bainbridge is a wonderful book that I am very happy to call my own. The book is out-of-print, a good...

For practicing and teaching endbands, I first started out with little sewn textblocks, then chopped up telephone books (remember those) or ...

English here Als Buchbinder haben wir alle schon Verlagseinbände, (hoffentlich bessere) Taschenbücher, und ähnliches als "pseudo...

Deutsch hier Back in August 2012, Henry Hebert who was at the time a NBSS student coined a new term, fancied-up books. By this he meant...

From Paul Kersten's Die Buchbinderei und das Zeichnen des Buchbinders ... (Halle a.d. Saale, 1909), plate 1. An odd looking too...