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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.

