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

So very glad to see the tutorial on the German-style springback, "Encuadernación de Libros (Contables) con Resorte (Springback)", ...

After over two decades, I finally upgraded the images and made some other tweaks to the German-style springback tutorial I wrote with Donia ...

It is past due time for another Ernst Collin related update, something I have tried to do on his birthday of 31 May. As with the last one, t...

I introduced Werner Kiessig in this post from 2020 . Kiessig lived and worked in Berlin, Ost, but was also a member of the Meister der Einba...

Yesterday, I learned of the passing of John Francis Dean (2/11/1936  -  2/29/2024). Looking back, John probably had the greatest impact on m...

It was with sadness that I took notice today of the passing of Dietmar Klein 10/14/1943 - 2/22/2024), the bookbinding Meister I apprenticed ...