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Category: Archival Work, Book Repair and Restoration
- Mathematicians and Conservators Work Together to Restore Artwork
- iBB Podcast #15.2 – Kathy Abbott – Workshop Tour, Show & Tell, Tomorrow’s Past
- iBB Podcast #15.1 – Kathy Abbott – Male-Dominated 1980s, Restoration & Book Dealers, Islamic Bindings
- iBB Podcast #14 – Holiday Special – Rita Udina, Mark Cockram, and Ingeir Djuvik
- Bookish Talk #1 – Worm-Eaten Manuscripts
- iBB Podcast #8.1 – Mark Cockram. Beginning, Experiments, and Teaching
- iBB Podcast #7 – Sophia Siobhan Wolohan Bogle – Save Your Books
- iBB Podcast #4 – Rita Udina. Paper and Book Conservation, Studio Tour, and Q&A
- iBB Podcast #3.2 – Eliane Gomes / Nautilus Boekbinderij. Leasure, Study, Work-Life Balance, and Q&A
- iBB Podcast #3.1 – Eliane Gomes / Nautilus Boekbinderij. What Is Book Restoration? 3×4-Meter Studio Tour
- iBB Podcast #2. Todd Davis / Middlesex Bindery – Bookbinding as a Third Career, Lockdown, Q&A
- How Not to Repair Your Old Bible With Duct Tape
- iBookBinding Starts Sales of a New Item: Plexiglas Book Cradle
- How New Technologies Enliven Old Finds
- Russian Marine Archaeologists Recovered an Intact 327-Year-Old Psalter from a Sunken Ship
- Archival Metal Staples — Isn’t There a Contradiction Here?
- This Year 2nd October is the #AskAnArchivist Day!
- How Not to Repair a Book’s Spine
- Digitization or Restoration? The Sri Lanka Edition
- Washi – An Ancient Material is Being Put to a Bookish Use
- All About That Pesky Scotch Tape
- Tens of Thousands of Books Damaged or Destroyed by the Recent Flood in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia
- Comics: Things to Avoid During Restoration
- Comics: Their Sentimental and Trading Value
- Restoration of an 18th-Century Slavonic Liturgical Book
- Repairing an Endband
- What Does it Take to Make the Thinnest Sheet of Paper?
- 10 Things That Terrify Archivists
- A 19th-Century Diary for My Daughter
- Preserving Imperfections – Basics in Paper Conservation
- Kickstarter Alert! Book Restoration Unveiled: A Guide for Book Collectors
- Being a Bookbinder with Allergy to Books
- A Dublin Bookbinder: RTÉ Documentary
- Restoration: Grandmother’s Prayer Book
- Goats, Bookworms, a Monk’s Kiss
- Watch How the Old Books Are Restored Step by Step
- Medical Recipe Attributed to Hippocrates Found in Palimpsest from the St Catherine’s Monastery Collection
- Conservation of the Largest Printed Work of the British Museum Collection
- Bookbinding Posts You Shouldn’t Have Missed this April
- Fixer of Books at the University of Virginia Conservation Lab
- Bookbinding Posts You Shouldn’t Have Missed this March
- Restoring Pages of a 300 Year Old Book
- 5 Ways to Remove Cigarette Smell from Books
- Bookbinding Posts You Shouldn’t Have Missed this February
- Get Inside the Restoration Lab of the National Library of Spain
- Book Conservation Videos and Tutorials by Sherif Afifi
- 5 Beautiful Bookbinding-Themed Facebook Accounts to Follow This February
- The Anatomy of Restoration
- Vibrant Book Repair Video from Harvard Collections Care
- “Desilking” A Christmas Carol Explained
- Fascinating Process of Restoration of a 17th Century Map
- Challenges of Being a Book Conservator in Portugal
- Civil War-Era Diary Goes from Conservation to Website
- “Basic Binding” and “Basic Book Repair” Prices
- Video: Repairing a Historical Thomas Jefferson Document with Washi Paper
- Rare 18th Century Book Restoration
- Category: Cloth Conservation and Restoration
  - Conserving Vulture Peak Series by the British Museum
- Category: Digitization
  - The Illuminator. Containing All the Parts of The Illuminators Magazine & Completing the Subject (1862)
  - iBookBinding Opens Access to Its Collection of Books About Book Arts
  - Digitized Book: A Guide to Beginners in the Art of Illumination (Albert H. Warren, 1860)
  - Digitized: December’1901 Issue of the Russian Magazine ‘Printing Art’ (“Печатное искусство”)
  - Digitized Book: Bookbinding for Beginners (J. Kay, 1931)
  - Digitized Book: The Great Book-Collectors (Charles Isaac Elton, Mary Augusta Elton, 1893)
  - Digitized Book: The First Issue of the Russian Magazine “Printing Art” From 1901
  - May’1902 Issue of the Russian Magazine Art of Print (“Печатное искусство”)
  - Het drukkers jaarboek 1911 (The Printer’s Yearbook, 1911)
  - French Paper Industry Bulletin ‘Papyrus’ – August 1930
  - The Advertiser’s Handbook (1923)
  - Century-Old Russian Magazine ‘Printing Art’ (“Печатное искусство”) – January 1902
  - Cuban Botany Manuscript Found After Being Lost for 190 Years
  - Het drukkers jaarboek 1908 (The Printer’s Yearbook, 1908)
  - Georgian-Arabic Palimpsest Found During Digitization of Medieval Manuscripts in Dagestan
  - Het drukkers jaarboek 1907 (The Printer’s Yearbook, 1907)
  - The Invention of Printing – Die Erfindung der Buchdruckerkunst (Heinrich Meisner; Johannes Luther, 1900)
  - Het drukkers jaarboek 1906 (The Printer’s Yearbook, 1906)
  - Manuscrits liturgiques de la bibliothèque du Havre
  - For Our Patrons, It’s Time to Choose New Candidates for Digitization and Download a Book from the Previous Month
  - Digitized Book of the Week: Objects of Art from the Museum Plantin-Moretus
  - Digitized Book of the Week: A Collection of 40 Music-Themed Ex Libris
  - Digitized Book of the Week: Catalog of the Maurice Escoffier Collection for the Giraud-Badin Auction
  - Digitized Book of The Week: A Short Historical Sketch of the Art of Bookbinding by William L. Andrews
  - Digitized Book of The Week: The Third Volume of the Descamps-Scrive Library Catalog
  - An Extension to iBookBinding Online Book Collection
- Category: Paper Repair and Restoration
- Category: Wood Repair
Category: Blog
- Lockdown, Delayed Supplies, and Great Bookish Community
- iBookBinding Reaches a New Goal on Patreon!
- My Bookish Books Collection (And My Approach to Building It)
- Scientific Dating Solves a Manuscript Mystery
- Spooky Bookish Things for Halloween
- Before the Eagle had Landed
- Making a Book Alive — When Book Arts Meet Animatronics
- The 26th Ephemeral Exhibition of Decorative Binders
- Thanks to Our Patrons We Just Reached an Important Milestone on Patreon
- Six Ways to Support iBookBinding
- A Path Forward For Independent Bookstores
- Nonexistent Bookplates From the Utopian Libraries
- The Great Book Scare and the Anxieties of Public Spaces
- The Process of Making My Books Chose Me
- Six Years With iBookBinding
- iBookBinding is Looking for an Intern/Contributor
- Bookbinding? It Won’t Be Easy. But Keep on Doing It!
- Intricate Folds Steal the Show in Matt Shlian’s Latest Paper Sculptures
- A Bibliophile’s Ex-Libris for 37.000 Books – The Bookplate of Sergey Vavilov with an Engraving of Félix Vallotton
- 10.000 Subscribers on Facebook! Hurray!
- Coming to London this Friday. Would Appreciate Advice on Bookish Places to Visit!
- Limited Time Offer: Sterling Silver Corner Cutting Jig!
- The Most Bookish Character of the Second Season of Game of Thrones
- Bookish Earrings with Marbled Covers in a Book Shop Next Door
- Spending a Couple of Days in Cannes. Any Bookish Advice on Where to Go and What to See?
- Just Burned My Blender While Making Recycled Paper
- Bookworm’s Feast: 15 Independent Bookstores Opened in 2018 in the UK
- Astonishing Pop-Up Books Chosen as Finalists of the Meggendorfer Artist Book Prize in 2018
- It’s the #LibraryShelfieDay Today!
- Binding the Booker – A Short BBC Documentary on Bookbinding
- iBookBinding: A Year in Review
- Recent Updates to My Bookbinding Workbench
- To the Letter. A Portrait of Ben Joosten
- Paul Revere & His Engraving
- Recent Reviews of iBookBinding at Etsy
- Next Destination: Bookish Ireland!
- How I Found a Composing Stick (and Much More) in Copenhagen
- Going to Copenhagen This Weekend
- Black Friday and Digital Monday Deals for Bookbinders and Bookish People
- 25% Black Friday Discounts at iBookBinding Until the 30th of November!
- Hundreds of Antiquarian Booksellers Fight Amazon Subsidiary’s Recent Decision
- Halloween at iBookBinding
- Umlauts of Berlin
- The Person Behind Book, Passport and Other Paper Props in the Movies
- In Reply to 5 Reasons Why Bookbinding Is the Best Hobby
- Nice Catch at the Book Market in the Hague
- Bookbinders’ Fair is Happening in Cologne This Sunday!
- 5 Reasons Why Bookbinding Is the Best Hobby
- iBookBinding is Looking for a Contributor
- Bookbinding: A Comprehensive Guide to Folding, Sewing, & Binding
- Going to Spain Next Week
- See You at the Sint Niklaas Bookbinders’ Fair This Sunday!
- iBookBinding Ranked #1 Bookbinding Blog by Feedspot
- Coming to Berlin this Weekend
- iBookBinding: a Year in Review
- Big Changes are Coming for iBookBinding. We are Moving to Amsterdam!
- Get iBookBinding PDF Book Collection for Free!
- Black Friday and Cyber Monday Discounts at iBookBinding? Sure!
- My First Bookbinding Press
- The List of the Most Expensive Manuscripts Had Recently Been Updated
- Dexter-Style Conversion of an Apartment into a Workshop
- How a 3,800-Year-Old Clay Tablet Teaches Us Trigonometry
- Collection of Book-Themed Postage Stamps
- A Question to Librarians – Cataloguing Software for a School Library
- Two Years with iBookBinding 2.0
- Please Help to Find a Bookbinding Souvenir in London
- Join in Helping a Library to Prevent Future Flooding
- Recent Problems with Posting Schedule at iBookBinding.com
- Going to Armenia This Weekend
- Monthly Q&A at iBookBinding. What Do You Think About That?
- The 2017 Education and Training Conference by the Society or Bookbinders
- Book History in Postage Stamps
- Busy Days at Workshop and a Bit of Self-Analysis
- The Society of Bookbinders 21st Education and Training Conference
- O Fascinante Processo de Restauro de um Mapa do Séc. XVII
- What Do You Think About That Way of Shelving Your Books?
- 15 Tutoriais Principais de Encadernação Japonesa na Internet
- Freehand Gold Tooling Calligraphy Videos
- Moving the 600-Year Corsini Archive
- New iBookBinding Logo
- iBookBinding: A Year in Review
- Top iBookBinding Posts of 2016
- Top 30 Bookbinding, Book History and Conservation Blogs of 2016
- The First Package I Ever Sent to Australia
- Star Wars Meets Bookbinding. Episode V
- YOUR Advice is Needed!
- Quran Transcribed With Gold and Silver Ink on Black Silk Pages
- From Onmia Libris in Reply to iBookBinding’s Request
- Black Friday 2016 for Bookbinders and Book Lovers
- Bookbinders and Money: Inner Conflict
- Please Support iBookBinding at Patreon!
- Sharpening a Pencil with a Bench Grinder
- Bad Service
- iBookBinding.com Updated
- Video: Making of the Rice Paper
- First Bookbinding Class of the Season
- Video: Binding a Huge Anniversary Book
- Drawing Shadows for Inlays on Leather Cover
- Soft Weights for Bookbinding: The Experiment
- Ideas for the New Season of Bookbinding Classes
- Sketchbook Makeover: A Simple Change
- Paper, Leather, Cloth: How Do You Store It?
- Furnishing My New Bookbinding (and Woodworking) Workshop
- Quick Question About Soft Weights (Yes, Soft Weights Again!)
- My Recent Bookbinder’s Side Job
- Soft Weights for Bookbinding
- Being Bookish in Venice
- Viaggio in Italia
- What Makes a Book a Book? by TED-Ed
- Rope-Wrapped Handles for a Lying Press
- Moscow Metro Have Launched a Shakespeare-Themed Train
- The Oldest Ukrainian Printed Book Is Stolen in Kiev
- Why Do Old Books Smell So Good?
- Making Bookbiding Tools In My New Woodworking Workshop
- How To Tie A Weaver’s Knot (Attaching A New Thread)
- Raw Craft with Anthony Bourdain – Episode Five: Arion Press
- Folding A Sheet Of Paper 7 Times
- My First Handmade Bakelite Folder
- Do You Know Any Ancient Jewish Codices?
- Avoiding Standard Paper Sizes — Pie Books
- American Academy of Bookbinding Scholarships
- Chip Kidd Gives an Advice On Cover Design
- The Oldest Russian Book Is Not Really a Book
- Between the Covers: Altered Books in Contemporary Art
- Soviet Censorship Bookbinding Tutorial
- Updating Lists of Bookbinding Workshops and Classes
- 2015 for iBookBinding — A Year of Changes
- Using a Makeshift Bookbinding Plough. Part 2
- Star Wars Meets Bookbinding. Episode IV
- Using a Makeshift Bookbinding Plough
- Top 10 Box Making Tutorials on the Internet
- Your Bookbinding Tools and Workplace
- Bookbinder’s Holiday Gift List: 12 Essential Books And More!
- Designer Bookbinders Annual Competition Winners Announced
- Black Friday Offers for Bookbinders and by Bookbinders (Valid Over Weekend) From All Over the World — 2015
- Smart Archival Boxes, Trays and Portfolios
- 2nd International Artists’ Book Fair in Guadalajara
- New Worlds Carved Out of Old Books
- 20 Years of Bookbinding at the Brussels’ Académie des Beaux-Arts Jean-Jacques Gailliard
- Cursos de encadernação no Portugal | Bookbinding Workshops in Portugal (2015)
- Major Japanese Washi Paper Exhibition Opens in London
- Printing Women: Three Centuries of Female Printmakers, 1570–1900
- 3rd Annual Juried Artists’ Book Exhibition, Fort Worth
- 422-Volume Rare Book Collection Becomes an Integral Part of the American Bookbinders Museum
- Leather-Paring Stones
- Bookbinding Workshops / Classes in Italy (2015)
- Talleres de encuadernación en Chile| Bookbinding Workshops in Chile (2015)
- A Bookbinding Story: Grandpa Turns 100
- Bookbinding Workshops / Classes in Australia (2015)
- Talleres de encuadernación en México | Bookbinding Workshops in Mexico (2015)
- Bookbinding Workshops / Classes in Belgium (2015)
- Talleres de encuadernación en España | Bookbinding Workshops in Spain (2015)
- Talleres de encuadernación en Argentina | Bookbinding Workshops in Argentina (2015)
- The Largest Calligraphy Work in the World Created in Moscow, Russia
- Cursos de encadernação no Brasil | Bookbinding Workshops in Brazil (2015)
- Talleres de encuadernación en España y los países de América del Sur
- 7th Los Angeles Printers Fair
- Monthly Roundup September 2015
- Spanish Best Artistic Binding Award Winners Announced
- Pop-Up Books by Marion Bataille
- Portuguese (Brazilian) version of iBookBinding.com
- Bookbinding & Anatomy
- From Author to Author/Book Binder: A Journey
- Bookbinding Workshops / Classes in Canada (2015)
- Bone, Wooden, Metal and Other Types of Bookbinder’s Folders
- iBookBinding.com is Looking for New Team Members
- New Fine Binding Competition in the USA and Three Other Bookbinding Contests
- Bookbinding Workshops / Classes in the USA (2015)
- The Day the Gutenberg Bible Binding was Finished
- Only One Day Left to Bid on 204 Lots of Bookbinding Tools and Equipment
- Top 10 Endband Tutorials on the Internet
- Who is Mr. Chizhov?
- iBookBinding 2.0
- Top 10 Long-Stitch Bookbinding Tutorials
- Weapon of Mass Instruction!
- Top 10 Secret Belgian Binding Tutorials
- PDF Bookbinding Collection (105 different bookbinding books – 1.23 GB)
- What exactly is a ‘Nipping Press’?
- Guest Posting Opportunity: Share Your Projects, Knowledge or Services
- Simple Bookbinding Tutorial
- City & Guilds Course in Bookbinding (for Beginners)
- Advanced (and unusual…) Papermaking Techniques
- Bookbinding Workshops / Classes in the UK (2014 – 2015)
- Marbling Tutorials, Equipment & Photo Galleries
- Free Bookbinding Books
- Top 5 Must Read Books on Marbling Techniques + Reviews
- Book Anatomy (Parts of a Book) & Definitions
- Book Binding Tutorial: Glues – Tips, Techniques, Types & Recipes
- Top 10 Coptic Stitch Binding Tutorials on the Internet
- 12. Making Bookbinding Headbands Tutorial
- 11. Making Split Cover Boards for Larger Books
- 10. Rebinding an Old Book Tutorial
- 09. Bookbinding Projects
- 08. Taking Care of the Last Few Details
- 07. Attaching the Mull, Creating and Fixing the Boards
- 06. Sewing / Stitching the Book
- 05. Collating the Signatures
- 04. Folding the Sheets
- 03. Fundamentals of Bookbinding
- Introduction to Bookbinding Supplies and Materials
- 01. Bookbinding History and Introduction
- Bookbinding: A Step-by-Step Guide Book Review
- Category: Beautiful Bookbinding Links
  - Inspiring Bookbinding Projects of November
  - Inspiring Bookbinding Projects of October
  - Inspiring Bookbinding Projects of September
  - Heart-Shaped Books: History and Tutorials
  - Bookbinding Posts You Shouldn’t Have Missed in January
  - Category: Facebook
    - 5 Beautiful Bookbinding-Themed Facebook Accounts to Follow This July
    - 5 Beautiful Bookbinding-Themed Facebook Accounts to Follow This April
- Category: Being Bookish in...
  - Boekhandel Dominicanen — Modern Bookshop in a Medieval Cathedral
  - Southbank Book Market in London
  - Used Books Shop in a 16th-Century Cellar in the Old Town of Grasse, France
  - Being Bookish in Bucharest
  - Being Bookish in Armenia
  - Category: Europe
    - Category: France
    - Category: Netherlands
    - Category: Romania
      - Category: Bucharest
    - Category: UK
      - Category: London
- Category: Book Reviews
  - Making Books with the London Centre for Book Arts
  - Get the Reprinted Edition of The Archaeology of Medieval Bookbinding by J.A. Szirmai!
- Category: Bookbinder in the Classroom
  - Five Years Ago This Day I Became a Bookbinding Teacher
  - A Problem with Finishing Binding My Books
  - Boring Bookbinding with Kids
  - Teaching Kids Bookbinding is Fun!
  - When Your Student Does a Better Job Than You
- Category: Bookbinder's Experience
  - The First Book I Bound, My First Press, and Some Mistakes I Made
  - An Answer to a Dreaded Question. “Just Do a Workshop” — Is It Really That Simple?
  - Profound Connection with Nature of Ingeir Djuvik’s Design Bindings
  - Adelene Koh: Probably the Only Bespoke Bookbinder of Singapore
  - Getting Cold Feet Before Every Bookbinding Class
  - Teaching Bookbinding in Just One Hour (or Even Less)
  - Tagging a Cover Bird with Gold — My Second Gold Tooling Experience
  - Tables and Built-in Workshop Storage Options
  - The First Book You Ever Made
  - 5 Beautiful Bookbinding-Themed Facebook Accounts to Follow This January
  - What Do You Do with Paper Offcuts?
  - Soviet Bookbinder’s Heirloom
  - Being a Newbie Gold Tooling Student
  - 5 Beautiful Bookbinding-Themed Facebook Accounts to Follow This December
  - Poor Experience With Omnia Libris
  - Sentiment Changes Book’s Value. In Reply to Bookbinders and Money: Inner Conflict
  - Being a Bookbinder in Portugal
- Category: Books in Movies and Other Media
  - Color-Sorted and Color-Coded Libraries
  - Books, Scrolls, and Other Documents of Game of Thrones TV Series: Season 1
  - Category: Game of Thrones
    - Sophie Turner Confessed to Taking a Scroll From the Game of Thrones Set
    - All Wax Seals with Sigils on Letters and Documents in Game of Thrones (They Are Doing It Wrong!)
- Category: Featured Bookbinders
  - Featured Bookbinder: Kris Stewart
  - Category: Bookbinder's Workshop
  - Category: First Book
- Category: Galleries
  - Our Gentle Boy Onfim – Birch Bark Doodles of a Medieval Russian Kid
  - Mr. Marcel Proust and His Turquoise Marbled Papers
  - OPEN • SET Competition Prize Winners and Participants of the Touring Exhibition Announced
  - Sneak Peak of the Genizah at the Grand Choral Synagogue in Saint Petersburg
  - Embroidering Japanese Style Notebooks with Veins, 3D Mesh Modelling and Insects
  - Signature Designs & Stitching Ideas
  - Headband / Endband Gallery
  - Category: Book Market Finds
    - Bookish Talk #3 – Looking for Bargains on Book Markets
    - Colorful Blue-Green Paste Paper from an Early 20th-Century Binding
  - Category: Books in Visual Arts
    - Bookish Street Switch Box in Leiden, Netherlands
  - Category: Margin Doodles
    - Doodles of NKVD Investigators
    - Were You Ever Curious Who has Drawn a Doodle in Your Book?
  - Category: Weekly Cartoon at iBookBinding
- Category: Highlights
  - iBB Podcast Special – iBookBinding is Moving to France!
  - iBB Podcast #13.1 – Peter Geraty – Bookbinder’s Apprentice in the 1970s / Studying Throughout Life
  - Winners of the Society of Bookbinders International Competition of 2019 Announced
- Category: Interviews
  - Upholding the Traditions of Marbling in Russia. Interview with Ekaterina Hyyrynen (Savelyeva)
  - Studuying to Design and Make Books from Scratch: Interview with Alexander Vasin
- Category: Paper Planes
  - Paper Airplane Gun
  - Just for Fun: The Best of Paper Airplanes
- Category: Reviews
- Category: Top Slider
- Category: Video
  - The Poetry of Bookbinding
  - Neil Gaiman Talks About Writing Novels in Vintage Ledgers with Fountain Pens
  - How to Operate a Book
  - One of the Largest and Most Expensive Bird Books Displayed at Liverpool Library
  - A Bit More About Dos Rapporté Binding From Ben Elbel
  - Ken Sanders – Rare Books Seller and Stolen Books Detective
  - Life, Paper, and Calligraphy
  - The Largest Miniature Book Collection of József Tari
  - Amazing Wizard of Oz Pop-Up Book by Robert Sabuda
  - Trimming a Book With a Router
  - Binding a Book, the Old-Fashioned Way
  - Street Libraries in Australia (with Examples and Instructions on How to Make Them)
  - In the Shop of 81-Year-Old Bookbinder Wolfgang Bremer
  - Enchanting Video From a Lebanese Bookbindery
  - Category: Bookish Talk
  - Category: iBB Podcast
Category: Book Elements
- Category: Book Cover
- Category: Bookplate
- Category: Endbands
- Category: Endleaves
- Category: Signatures
Category: Bookbinding Guilds
- Welcome Package From the Dutch Guild of Bookbinders
Category: Bookbinding Styles
- Surprising Mixed Three-Section Stabbed Binding From Early Communist Russia
- Dos Rapporté by Bookbinding Out of the Box. One of the Best Printed Bookbinding Tutorials I Have Ever Seen
- Category: Accordion Books
  - Researchers Discovered a Missing Part of “The Tale of Genji,” a Novel Written by A Japanese Noblewoman in the Early 11th Century
  - The Book as a Canvas: Deep Mapping with Accordion Books
- Category: Artists Books
  - iBB Podcast #18 – Kaija Rantakari – Is there a Moment When a Book Isn’t a Book Anymore?
  - What Makes a Book a Book?
- Category: Bradel binding
- Category: Coptic Binding
- Category: Design Bindings
- Category: French binding
- Category: French Link Stitch Bookbinding
- Category: Japanese Binding
  - Top 15 Japanese Stab Binding Tutorials on the Internet
- Category: Long-stitch Bookbinding
- Category: Miniature Books
  - Miniature Pushkin
  - Petit Almanach Postal et Telegraphique, 1904
- Category: Modern Bookbinding
- Category: Stab Binding
Category: Bookish Pictures
- Papermaking Process as Outlined by Cai Lun in 105 CE
- Bookish Pictures: The Mystery of The Printer’s Clothing
Category: Books
- Category: The Art of Bookbinding, Joseph W. Zaehnsdorf, 1897
Category: Books Transformed
- 3d-Papercraft Mount Fuji Book
- Category: Book Sculpting
  - Cutting Edge Artwork of Eric Standley
Category: Boxmaking
- iBB Podcast #17.2 – Dimitris Koutsipetsidis – Bindings with Riddles and Layered Narratives
Category: Classifieds
- This is Your Chance to Buy a Scout Model Cantilevered Sewing Frame
Category: Competitions
- Category: Designer Bookbinders
- Category: OPEN • SET
- Category: Premio a las Mejores Encuadernaciones Artísticas
- Category: The SoB International Competition
Category: Documentaries
- The Art of Bookbinding, a Mini Documentary
- Making Books (Short Documentary on Book Manufacture in 1947) by Encyclopedia Britannica Films
- The Art of Making a Book, Short Film/Bookbinding Documentary
- Hübner Bokform (A Mini Documentary by Gustav Bondeson)
- The History and Art of Chinese Paper Making (Journey in Time) Documentary Video + Info, 2010
Category: Expo
- Live Printing Experience – Skaryna Bible at the Moscow International Book Fair
- Join Me this April at the Bookbinders’ Fair in Belgium!
- Category: Book Markets
- Category: Bookshops
- Category: Collections
  - Sorting My Bookish Book Collection
- Category: Exhibitions
- Category: Libraries
- Category: Museums
  - Please Help American Bookbinders Museum
Category: Guest Posts
- Looking for Bookbinding Tool Catalogues
Category: History
- New Book Showcases Early Color Printing As Never Before
- Extraordinary Spanish/Chinese Dictionary Uncovered in University Archives
- Looted 10th Century Manuscript Is Finally Going Home Thanks to Museum Researchers
- Deceptive Printed “Marbled Paper” From the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
- Watch a Medieval Scholar Analyze The Fauquier Book of Hours
- Amazing Decorated Initials From a 1905 Competition Held by the Studio Magazine
- Amazing Century-Old Book Industry Ads
- Doctor Zhivago, CIA, and a Fake Parisian Publishing House
- Have You Ever Seen Slate Exercise-Books Like This One?
- Category: History of Writing
- Category: Islamic Binding
- Category: Manuscripts
  - Is This Thomas Becket’s Precious ‘Little Book’?
  - Crowdfunding the Bid for €700,000 Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Little Book’
- Category: Medieval Bookbinding
  - A 450-Year-Old Bible is Used During the Inauguration of the President of Ukraine
  - Medieval Knights Fighting Snails
  - Category: Carolingian Binding
    - Medieval Bookbinding Tutorials
  - Category: Dos-a-Dos
    - Employees of Biblioteca Angelica Demonstrate a Book that Opens Six Different Ways
  - Category: Girdle Books
  - Category: Gothic Binding
  - Category: Palimpsests
  - Category: Romanesque Binding
- Category: Modern Bookbinding
  - This Soviet-Era Handmade Book is Literally a Photo Copy
  - Category: Samizdat
Category: Making a Book
- Category: Cover Decoration
  - Interview with Piotr Jarosz, Winner of the Ash Rare Books Lettering Award (Designer Bookbinders)
- Category: Gold Tooling
  - Studying Gold Tooling – Third Lesson
  - Watch Run-Up Gilt Back* Gold Leaf Tooling
- Category: Illumination
Category: Markets and Fairs
- Boeken in de Bavo – The Annual Book Market in Haarlem
- Saturday Book Market in Ghent, Belgium
Category: Materials
- Melting Down Beeswax
- Category: Glue and Paste
  - Winter is Coming! Last Chance to Get Your PVA Glue
  - Advice Needed: Methylcellulose vs Carboxymethylcellulose vs Sodium Carboxymethylcellulose
- Category: Marbled Paper
  - Marbled Velour Paper – Heaven for Visual & Kinesthetic Persons Alike!
  - My First DIY Marbling Experience
- Category: Paste Paper
Category: News
- Exploring a Hidden Part of Hong Kong’s Artistic Identity Through Printmaking
- Umberto Eco’s Library and Archive Acquired by the Italian Culture Ministry
- Japanese Papercraft Inspires Advances in Engineering
- Powell’s ‘Eau De Bookstore’ Fragrance Offers the Scent of Bookshops
- Prehistoric Rock Art Revealed on a Vast Scale
- 143-Year-Old First Edition of the Evening Telegraph Restored Using Modern Paper Conservation Techniques
- Update to Our Book Press Family
- Femmes de Lettres: New Book Series to Release Works of Forgotten Female Authors
- Meghan Markle Reveals Her Experience in Bookbinding
- #BannedBooksWeek
- The French Post Issues a New Bookbinding-Themed Stamp
- An Anime Series For Those Who Love Books and Bookmaking
- Line 31 in the Mesha Stele is Restored, Confirming a Biblical Story
- Helvetica Now: Refreshed for the Modern Age
- Reading and Education Instead of Traditional Ways of Punishment for Juvenile Offenders
- Attention All Printers: Your Jobs Do Not Exist (At Least Not in the US)
- One Book One Bronx: One Stereotype at a Time
- 1,200-Year-Old Bible Taken in Custody by Turkish Police
- Celebrity Patrons Save “House of Horrors” Bookstore
- £42.5k – £350,000 – The most expensive books in Britain are being put up for sale!
- Yehuda Miklaf, An interesting read
- Indian Bookbinding Scam, New Delhi
Category: Papermaking
- My Teenage Daughter Made a YouTube Video About Making Paper and I Love It!
- Creating a Recycled ‘Paper Wave’
- Cotton with 1% Elastane – Would that Affect the Paper Made Out of It?
- Paper Rag Crisis of the 21st Century – The Last Traditional Papermaker
- How Do You Shred Your Cotton T-Shirts?
- Why Didn’t I Make My Papermaking Mould This Way Right From the Beginning?
- Making Paper with Watermarks with a 3D-Printed Mould
- How Zaansch Bord Paper is Made with Windmill Power
- Ancient Tradition of Handmade Korean Paper Meets Modern Art
- Korean Hanji Paper Making
- An Experiment in 18th Century Papermaking
Category: Printing
- A Mix of Video Games and Centuries Old Japanese Printing Tradition
- Category: Engraving
  - William Blake’s Innovative Printing Process
  - Variations on the Theme of Bibliophile from the Ship of Fools by Sebastian Brant (1494, 1497)
- Category: History of Printing
- Category: Typography
Category: Printing Press
- Printers’ Marks: A Chapter in the History of Typography
- Letterpress Fishes from Japan
- Pressing Matters – a New Magazine for Printmakers (and Curious Bystanders)
- Magic of the Printing Process Captured in This Video
Category: Study
- Category: Schools
Category: Tools
- Just Can’t Stop Buying Guillotine Paper Cutters!
- Wooden Tools Are Returning to Our Store For a Limited Time!
- Using a 3d-Printed Bonefolder
- Black Friday Discount on Bookbinding Equipment at our Etsy store
- Category: 3d-Printed Tools
- Category: Boxmaking
- Category: Corner Cutting Jig
  - Wonderful Triangles from Argentina
  - Corner Cutting Jigs and Where to Find Them
- Category: Exhibiting
- Category: Hole Punching Cradle
  - Collapsible Punching Cradle By Missy Bosch Studio
- Category: Presses
- Category: Rounding Tool
  - 3D-Printed Spine Rounding Tool
- Category: Rulers and Straight Edges
  - 3D-Printed Corner Cutting Tool
  - T-Shaped and L-Shaped Safety Straight Edges
- Category: Sewing Frame
  - Updated Simple Sewing Frame
  - Simple Sewing Frame for Bookbinders Version 2.0 at My Etsy Store
- Category: Weights
  - Brick Weight in a 3D-Printed Enclosure – New at Our Etsy Store
Category: Tutorials
- Category: @iBookBinding
- Category: Bookbinding
- Category: Boxmaking
  - Things Bookbinders Make: Jewelry Box
  - Making a Box in Just 3 Minutes
- Category: Endbands
  - Tutorial: Sewing an Endband On One Core in Two Colors
- Category: How Not To...
  - How Not to Repair Pages of a Book
- Category: Paper Marbling
  - 600 Years of the Turkish Tradition of Marbling
Category: Video Tutorials
- Bookbinding Gluing and Adhesive Tutorials
- Making Hardback Book Covers – Video Tutorials
- Making and Sewing Headbands – Video Tutorials
- A ‘Mini’ BookBinding Documentary – The Creation Process
- Sewing the Coptic Stitch Style – Video
- Bookbinding Sewn with Chord – Classic Style,Video Playlist
- Japanese Binding in Boards Video – Part 2
- Japanese Binding in Boards Video – Part 1
Category: Workshops
- Online Bookbinding Workshop: Long-Stitch Binding with Stubs for Single Pages, Sunday, the 6th of May, 2018

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Apprentice Bookbinder

Assistant Professor of Drawing and Printmaking at College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota

Getty Graduate Internships (Application: Fall 2017)

Senior Digital Archivist – Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library

Conservator (Special Collection & Archives) – Maynooth University Library