A Bookbinder’s Compendium: Workshop Handouts 2001-2025 by Karen Hanmer
Available only in unbound sheets.
SHIPPING TO US ADDRESSES ONLY
Available soon to bookbinders everywhere through Colophon Book Arts Supply.
This collection includes instructions on thirty four topics across six categories, arranged in the order they were written.
Historical Structures and Traditional Binding
Paper Cases and Modest Structures
Book Arts Structures
Notes on Materials
Decorative and Luxury Features
Professional Practices
Most of the material here was written as a supplement to, not a replacement for, an in person or online class. Still, handouts for many of the topics are detailed enough to guide those with basic forwarding skills in making the structure described. Most include a detailed tool and supply list.
Twenty-four sections, 23 with five folios each, one with 3 folios, 462 pages total.
Unfolded page size (short grain) 14 × 8.5”
Folded text block: 8.5 × 7 × 1.25”
Printed on bright white 70 lb text with a Canon varioPrint iX Digital Press by HF Group in North Manchester, IN
Most of this material is available for free download as individual documents
Download a sample here. (formatted to print on legal-sized paper, the margins here are slightly smaller than in the printed sheets)
As I continue to teach and research binding structures I will periodically be crafting my own bindings of these sheets. I have a binding of the only printed copy of the first draft here.
A Bookbinder’s Compendium: Workshop Handouts 2001-2025 by Karen Hanmer
Available only in unbound sheets.
SHIPPING TO US ADDRESSES ONLY
Available soon to bookbinders everywhere through Colophon Book Arts Supply.
This collection includes instructions on thirty four topics across six categories, arranged in the order they were written.
Historical Structures and Traditional Binding
Paper Cases and Modest Structures
Book Arts Structures
Notes on Materials
Decorative and Luxury Features
Professional Practices
Most of the material here was written as a supplement to, not a replacement for, an in person or online class. Still, handouts for many of the topics are detailed enough to guide those with basic forwarding skills in making the structure described. Most include a detailed tool and supply list.
Twenty-four sections, 23 with five folios each, one with 3 folios, 462 pages total.
Unfolded page size (short grain) 14 × 8.5”
Folded text block: 8.5 × 7 × 1.25”
Printed on bright white 70 lb text with a Canon varioPrint iX Digital Press by HF Group in North Manchester, IN
Most of this material is available for free download as individual documents
Download a sample here. (formatted to print on legal-sized paper, the margins here are slightly smaller than in the printed sheets)
As I continue to teach and research binding structures I will periodically be crafting my own bindings of these sheets. I have a binding of the only printed copy of the first draft here.
