bookclasp.com
  A website about constructing metal book clasps, bosses and other types of book hardware, showing examples of book clasp repair and restoration and information on workshops offered by Joycelyn Merchant on the design and construction of metal bookclasps. Closure, the blog version of this website, is here.
 
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Links of Interest

Accumulata.com: Links to our ebay auction pages,offering books and collectibles.

The Book Arts Web: An excellent place to begin if you are interested in more information on book arts.

Buchbinderei Müller: German site which sells very nice replicas of antiquarian clasps.

Center for Book and Paper Arts: Columbia College, Chicago, IL

Eden Workshops, Richard Norman: A Bookbinders Resource

Etherington Conservation Services

Guild of Bookworkers

Hollander's: Decorative papers, bookbinding supplies, workshops

Keith Smith: Books with instructions for constructing books hand

Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association: An organization of book dealers in the Midwest

PBI- Paper and Book Intensive

Scott Kellar

UKFD: Database of artifact finds, including some bookclasps

 

There are many more books in need of clasps.

Comments or questions? Contact me.

 
 
 

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