RESOURCES
Bookbinding Supplies
Hollander’s (www.hollanders.com): bookbinding tools
Jim Croft (www.cargocollective.com/oldway): handmade tools for bookbinding
Micro-Mark (www.micromark.com): tiny tools for bookbinding
Pergamena (www.pergamena.net): quality leather and parchment
Royalwood (www.royalwoodltd.com): linen or waxed linen thread
Shanna Leino (www.shannaleino.com): handmade tools for bookbinding
Steve Siegel Leather (www.siegelleather.com): goat and calf skin leather
Talas (www.talasonline.com): bookbinding tools from bone folders to awls as well as boards, papers, and leather
Paper
Hiromi Paper (www.hiromipaper.com): fine art and Japanese papers
Legion Paper (www.legionpaper.com): variety of papers from text weight to cover weight and fine art
Morgan Conservatory (www.morganconservatory.org): handmade paper and custom papers
Paper Connections (www.paperconnection.com): fine art and specialty papers from the East
Further Reading
The Codex and Crafts in Late Antiquity, Georgios Boudalis, Bard Graduate Center, 2018.
Headbands: How to Work Them, Jane Greenfield and Jenny Hille, Oak Knoll Press, 2005.
The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time, Keith Houston, W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
Japanese Bookbinding: Instructions from a Master Craftsman, Kōsanjin Ikegami, Weatherhill, 1986.
The Art & History of Books, Norma Levarie, Oak Knoll Press, 1995.
Making Memory Boxes: Box Projects to Make, Give, and Keep, Barbara Mauriello, Rockport Publishers, 2000.
Non-Adhesive Binding Volume III: Exposed Spine Sewings, Keith Smith, Keith Smith Books, 2011.
Women Bookbinders 1880–1920, Marianne Tidcombe, Oak Knoll Press, 1996.
Books, Boxes and Portfolios: Binding, Construction and Design, Step-by-Step, Frank Zeier, McGraw-Hill Professional, 1990.
Places to find Book Arts
The Bard Graduate Center Reading Room, New York City
Central Booking, New York City
The Met Library, New York City
The New York Public Library Special Collections, New York City
Printed Matter, New York City
Booklyn, Brooklyn, New York
Dobbin Mill, book art studio and paper mill from artist Robbin Ami Silverberg, Brooklyn, New York
San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, California
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, Ohio
Jaffe Center for Book Arts, Boca Raton, Florida
London Centre for Book Arts, London, England