Fritz Otto was in his studio, exhausted after a long day of bookbinding. He was distracted by his phone and didn't even notice the soft ...

And here we finish these springbacks / Sprungrücken started in the previous post , and the three others that were "dropped in". Wh...

Decided to pull out the old, analog Pentax again to put Fritz Otto in front of the lens ... (35mm lens with Ilford HP 5)  Below we see Fritz...

In a world that is verSPINnert, ahem spinning, it's important to tell up from down, right from wrong, ... So too in bookbinding. That...

It's scary when the hired help has a tidier studio than the "Meister" ... I better clean up my own studio before I start any p...

Been a rather busy and tense few months since "the Meister" decided to retire from his "day-job" at a large library effe...

 A new fish skin binding acquisition for the piscatorial collection. The Salmon of Wisdom from the Folklore Fish series. It is bound in sa...

Despite how easy it is to take pictures these days, Fritz Otto prefers black and white film. It's the tones and graininess he likes. Her...

There was once a bindery in Berlin that was situated under railroad tracks ... Incorporating that into my train layout seemed like a wonderf...