Biblio Tech model set.

Biblio Tech: Reverse engineering historical and modern binding structures (with a focus on board attachment).

This limited edition is nearly out of print.

Please note these sets are made to order and may not be available for immediate delivery. Normal turn-around time is twelve to eighteen months. Two sets are available for immediate delivery.

Set of twelve binding models with leather and various papers and sewing supports, wooden boards, museum board. Housed in clamshell box. Each binding approximately 5 x 3.25 x .5” Created 2013.

This reference set of twelve binding models is based on Karen Hanmer's popular workshop Biblio Tech: Reverse engineering historical and modern binding structures. The models remain uncovered and only partially completed so methods of board attachment, sewing, spine lining, and endsheet construction are visible. The set is accompanied by a forty-five page illustrated guidebook outlining key structural features of each binding, and providing numerous references for further study. The hand-bound manual is sewn in three signatures and presented in a German stiffened paper binding.

These models are a valuable reference for libraries, book arts programs, or for anyone who is interested in learning more about the engineering aspects of the book. Structures include:

• Tacketing of a thick single signature into a leather wrapper

• Ethiopian Binding

• Medieval Binding

• Laced-on boards Binding

• Colonial American Scaleboard Binding

• Early Nineteenth Century Publishers Boarded Binding

• German Case Binding with double fan adhesive text block

• Split Board Binding

• Simplified Binding

• Crossed Structure Binding

• Sewn Boards Binding

• Non-Adhesive Paper Case

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A forty-five page illustrated guide outlining key structural features of each binding, and providing numerous references for further study is also available, bound, in sheets, or print on demand.