Catalogue
Departments
Nine departments, 50 products, 113 sizes and variants. Everything listed is held in stock in Frisco, Texas and dispatched the next business day, with one stated exception: made-to-size clamshell boxes, which are built to your measurements and take ten working days.
01Adhesives & Consolidants
Water-based only — PVA, wheat starch, methyl cellulose. Nothing solvent, nothing flammable.
4 items
02Archival Storage & Enclosures
Clamshell boxes, folders, sleeves and interleaving tissue. The housing is usually the only conservation an object ever gets.
6 items
03Board & Paper
Binder’s board, museum board, endpapers, text stock and Japanese repair tissue. Cut square, packed flat.
6 items
04Bookbinding Tools
Folders, awls, knives and dividers for the bench. Hand tools that do one job and last a working life.
8 items
05Bookcloth & Covering Materials
Buckram, book cloth, Japanese cloth and paring-grade leather, cut from the roll to your order.
5 items
06Conservation Instruments
Spatulas, tacking irons, humidity indicators and magnification. Bench instruments for repair work.
5 items
07Finishing & Tooling
Brass hand letters, pallets, foil and leaf for titling and blind work.
5 items
08Presses & Finishing Equipment
Nipping, laying and standing presses, board shears and weights. Cast iron and hardwood, built to be levelled once and used for decades.
6 items
09Sewing & Thread
Linen thread, tapes, cords and sewing frames. The part of the book that actually holds it together.
5 items