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Sunday, June 26, 2011

Vee alvays knew zis

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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...
Sunday, June 5, 2011

A Binder's Training by J. Franklin Mowery

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This article first appeared in the Guild of Book Workers' Journal, Volume XX, 1981-82. It is reprinted here with the permission of the ...
Sunday, May 15, 2011

Wire "Stapled" Bindings (Drahtheftung)

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A few weeks ago there was some discussion on Book_Arts-L about this peculiar style of binding that seems to have been mostly applied in Ger...
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Saturday, May 14, 2011

19th Century Bookbinding Tools and Machines

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The first edition originated in the Conversations-Lexikon mit vorzüglicher Rücksicht auf die gegenwärtigen Zeiten by Renatus Gotthelf Löbel...
Sunday, March 13, 2011

Bone Folder used as textblock in workshops

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Very nice to see the Bone Folder being used in a workshop setting, this time in Nova Scotia on July 9 as part of Susan Mills' Full Tilt...
Saturday, February 26, 2011

Bookbinders at Work

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And now a slightly different depiction of bookbinders at work. The embarrassed gentleman at left is in all likelihood a journeyman binder w...
Saturday, February 19, 2011

Paul Adam: An introduction to the German bookbinding trade, part II

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This article continues part I. In his introduction to Adam’s Leitfaden für die Gesellen- und Meister-Prüfung im Buchbindergewerbe (1904)...