16th ce Wooden Board Binding

	16th ce Wooden Board Binding  © 2002, Kristin Baum
Date: November, 2002 Materials: paper, linen cord, oak, leather, parchment, brass Size: 17 x 12.5 x 5.5 cm

This is my first full leather wooden board binding. While the leather color

is hardly historical, the edge beveling of the boards and the clasp design are

based on German exemplars. In fashioning the clasps for this binding I studied

many examples. If you're interestd in clasps, check out The Archeaology of Medieval Bookbinding (J.A. Szirmai) or Clasps, Schliessen, Clausuren

(Frank Mowery, Guild of Bookworkers Journal, XXIX, No. 2, Fall 1991).

It took me 15 hours to make this pair of clasps with mere hand tools.