Welcome to bookclasp.com! A web site about constructing metal book clasps, bosses and other types of book hardware; also including examples of book clasp repair and restoration as well as information on workshops offered by Joycelyn Merchant on the design and construction of metal bookclasps.
 
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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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