It is fairly uncommon to see coverage of the work of American binders and binderies in the German trade press. Below "a few words about...

The Crafts of Germany The different crafts in Germany are incorporations recognised by law, governed by usages of great antiquity, with a fu...

I recently acquired several new items connected to the Collins. First is a publishers' binding, Georg Friedrich Händel by Fritz Volbach...

 So, I'll probably never "get over" piscatorial bindings, especially if they just scream using materials as metaphor. Here the...

The images below are a selection of those in Franz Weisse's 1938 article "Fischhaut - Fischleder - Fischpergament" published ...

As in the past 6 years, on May 31st, Ernst Collin's birthday (This would have been his 134th) I share updates from my research and findi...

Now available on YouTube, the recording from today's lunchtime webinar. 109ish viewers while live, not bad. Actually a great turnout. Go...