The Ponderings of a Bookbinding Student: Why bookbinding? A discussion between a student and her mentor Introduction: This series of posts...

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...

By now, everyone show know that I have a certain infatuation for working with fish leather. Part of the reason may be that it is so differen...

Three years ago today Stolpersteine were placed in Berlin for Ernst Collin and his wife Else . ( Deutsch hier ). The Stolpersteine for E...

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

On the Print blog (3/10/17), Steven Heller wrote a piece titled " Normalized Letterheads ": By 1936 the Nazis were firmly in pl...

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