Bindings

The binding is the first contact with a book; it must be in harmony with its content.
A book must be attractive to the eye and to the hand; its materials are essential: parchment, papers, linens, skins.
Bindings make the book beautiful, strong and easy to go through.

A binding also strengthens a book which might be damaged for ever. Therefore, it is preserved for future generations who will appreciate going through it.
Each book has a personality, a spirit, an atmosphere. It is up to the owner and the book-binder to understand its complexity and to transmit it into the appropriate binding. Then, the work to do is imagined by the two of them.

Among likely bindings, there are:

• Linen binding: It is possible to inlay a print, or the original cover.

• Skin-binding: It is traditional working with full-skin, half-skin, spine and corners, spine and stripes.

• Creative binding: it is possible to use a mosaic of skins, of playing with thickness, materials, prints.

Binding goals:

Protecting:

• Protecting a book so often read and referred to.
• Covering a beloved book.
• Strengthening books weakened with time.
• Giving back a book its cover.

Offering:

• Offering a beautiful lasting object.
• Choosing to offer an original baby-book.

Upgrading:

• Changing a note-book into a book.
• Gathering documents in a unique one.
• Giving a special text an original cover.
• Making a bookself more pleasant to admire.

Personalizing:

• Making a personalised visitors' book.
• Creating a photo album in harmony with its content.