Early tracks
Replicas for hands-on for teaching/facilitating writing, bookbinding history. Depending on your needs and focus, I can supply you with replica objects (of your choice of my in stock items (write to me). Patterns and resources are also available if you want to create your own materials.
Early Book Forms
Early Books did not look like what we think of today! Surveys of worldwide early technologies in writing, we find innovative and practical use of materials at hand. Come to think of it – that wax tablet could look a bit like an early laptop, eh? Contact me if you would like me to make models for your classes or displays. Patterns and resources are also available.
The Codex
The early codex looks more familiar to us, and the binding methods still influence how we make our books and how we expect them to function. Models using materials similar to long ago are used in various replicas for hands-on learning. Directions of how to make you own are also available.
Modern versions
The long stitch as it is currently called, was originally a student-made binding for assembling pages that were copied or to be copied into. Modern versions of past methods of bindings help us see the possibilities of carrying forward these techniques that have been handed down to us. As always directions for making your own, or both modern and traditional versions available to purchase.
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