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Welcome to BOOKBINDING!

This is the revamped site for bookbinding.com, it is designed to improve navigation within the site and to help you find what you are looking for with a compact search engine above right. It is a work in progress, with some links still pointing to bookbinding .com.

This web site is dedicated to bookbinding, our aim is to help you understand what bookbinding is by answering the many questions you may have, with examples and text written on the topic of book binding.
If you are looking for how-to links, Practical Bookbinding or Bookbinding for Amateurs are a good start, with great tips for hobby and professional bookbinders alike. Useful for Grade School Teachers, Paper and Cardboard Construction, and for the aspiring designer, An Essay on Color.
Diderot pages on Bookbinding will help you with the equipment necessary for the trade, specially if you wish to build your own presses, sewing frames, cutting plows etc.

Museum boxes are an important part of bookbinding and preservation, so I prepared a step by step tutorial on the process. Sometimes some skills cross over from trade to trade. It's in this spirit that I have published a rare work on Gilding and Bronzing picture frames, where you will find pointers on this topic.
Here is a complete list of our publications.

Recently, I added a live feed to news related to bookbinding.

Through our affiliation with Amazon, I found that these Bookbinding books are the most popular.

The bookbinder stain glass picture at the left of the page is after a 1568 wood block by Jost Amman.

I sincerely hope that you will find this web site useful for the links leading to the many facets of bookbinding trade or hobby, thank you for spending some time with me, I will periodically add more information about bookbinding and publish long out of print books on the topic, so come back often and enjoy your visits, and don't forget, tell your friends and if you can, donate!

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