I have started to work with the book “Japanese Bookbinding. Instructions from a Master Craftsman” by Kojiro Ikegami already in 2014, five years ago. If you don’t know it, you should at least try to take a look at it at your local library. By many it is considered THE book about Japanese bookbinding. Like […]
Category archives: Büchertiger Supplies
Silk Thread
If you have not visited Büchertiger Supplies in a while, I invite you to do so! There’s some new stock to be found. You may know that I started with my supplies business when I couldn’t buy coloured linen thread in Germany: I had just discovered the online book art community and saw my first […]
New Lin Cable
Oh, yummy, yummy. There are now 14 new colours of Lin Cablé available. For the first time they are doing bright “silly” colours like cotton candy pink, and a yellow-green anis. I am so excited that I now also have them available in my Shop. With 44 colours available now, it is getting harder to […]
A Medieval Paperback, A Downloadable Instruction, and an Outlook onto 2018
Hello and a Happy New Year! I look into my list of blogpost has shown that this indeed is my first blogpost in this year. Although I am not planning at all to give up this blog here anytime soon, I have to admit to myself that the times in which I posted three times […]
Finally Summer is here
Finally summer has reached the UK. Today we are expecting temeratures to soar up to 25 degrees celcius, which are temperatures that count like really hot summer here. I was thinking of putting up the kid’s paddling pool but then I took a look outside and I realised it wouldn’t be a good idea: When […]