Changing attitudes to craft bookbinding - Jeff Clements, Restorer and Bookbinder, Director of Restauratieatelier Meridiaan (The Netherlands)
This short lecture concerns the individual hand bound book and examples have been chosen to indicate the variety of materials now being used and some technical developments, also the rediscovery and interpretation of traditional forms.
That craft bookbinding, artistic bindings, designer bindings, there are many names for this subject, still exists in this electronic age is something of a mystery. Clearly the need for the use of hands, head and heart combined with a creative spark has remained a constant factor regardless of the changes going on around us. This applies equally to numerous other creative crafts such as stained glass, ceramics and calligraphy, but the computer based book is already with us. Yet the fascination for the handmade codex and its binding continues all over the world.