Creative artistic bookbinding
How should books be bound to achieve creative and magical results?
What key factors should be taken into account when binding and rebinding?
Why is it so important in binding to harmonize covers with books?
The first edition was hand bound in high quality black calf leather with dragon optic leather, amber and crushed white and blue foil at the top of the cover. The black binding portrays the mystery and the lurking evil that was threatening Middle-Earth. The tower of Mordor on the cover was made with relief technique on the top of which is the scary eye of Sauron presented in red exclusive amber in silver. The fore edge beautiful Tolkien themed paintings of Saruman’s fortress was done by excellent artists.
Henryk Sienkiewicz’s The Trilogy with hand made paintings on the edges of each volume
Mark Twain’s Adam and Eve’s Diaries – the innovative „framebook” binding
Letters of St. John of the Cross printed on hand-made paper
Conservation of old prints
Conservation of works of art including books is a laborious task requiring very comprehensive knowledge, practice and skills. Since 1989 our art studio has been repairing valuable old printings thus restoring their beauty. For years, old printings of the Pomeranian Academy of Pedagogy were repaired in our artistic bindery and everything had to be done so that there were no traces of any changes of the printings. Old books have been entrusted to us by many collectors, and some of the books received new artistic bookbinding. French bookbinders often repair old printings in the same way for the National Library in Paris. In fact old printings often do not have original antique binding from the epoch because of the continuous repairs of the bindings and printings over the centuries. Nowadays it is not necessary to make new artistic bindings look like bindings in that epoch. We like the brave French approach to old printings.