In 2014 I taught a girdle book workshop at the San Francisco Center for the Book. Three students spent one Saturday a month, folding paper, sewing on leather thongs, shaping oak boards and cutting leather to shape a long tail to be tied in a Turk
Girdle Binding: handout, models — Karen Hanmer Book Arts
Binding books has never been so colourful!
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Day 277 -> Girdle Books
girdle books UCL UCL Special Collections
Binding books has never been so colourful!
How to make a medieval girdle book
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