Bookbinding tools

Want a personal journal? Why not make one of your own instead?

The art of bookbinding utilizes lots different materials, tools and equipment. This chapter presents a review of each of these.

Once you have this tool, you will love it! This is a 4-in-1 tool for bookbinding: - 1,5 wide ruler for cutting the turn-ins - 0,5 thickness that you can use as a spacer in some hinges - 0,2 and 0,3 corner cutters that you can vary according to the thickness of your cardboard It is made of plastic and 3D printed in our workshop. Would you like to see other tools that we print in 3D? Click here: https://www.etsy.com/es/shop/ElLibroRojoBCN?search_query=3d Follow me on my social networks…

Looking for an easy to make book press? We take a look at 3 common designs and talk about the best features we’ll be building into our own.

Karen Hanmer Bookbinder in solo practice, Only FIVE?! Maybe that’s not so limiting after all. Two experiences have taught me that with tools it is true that less is more. First: observing time lost…

Bookbinding tools, custom leather storage roll...

We’ve been asked to add this item to our stock for quite a long time. And finally, that moment came. From now on, we offer this signature punching cradle with a guide for an awl at our Etsy shop. However, the basic design is only the beginning, as we plan to add more versions of the tool soon, adding some functionality. To take it one more step further, we played a bit with the basic design, to make it a bit more attractive. Here is the render of the result: What do you think? Should we…

Whether he intended to do it or not, in the image of the bindery from Jost Amman’s book he captured a technological evolution in the man featured prominently in the foreground. The tool he is…

Here are the tools and materials I use to make a book! There is no correct or one way to make a book, but I hope this video can be a launching point to figur...