Ethiopian (Coptic) Binding:
Blank textblock, sewn with brown linen thread, quarter sawn beech boards.
Blank textblock sewn  through an oak spine pience using white linen thread.  Cave paper cover.
Historic Longstitch
Limp Vellum Binding:


Blank textblock sewn on alum taw thongs with white linen thread.  Primary endbands with bead on the spine, sewn with white linen thread on on alum taw cores.  Un-dyed vellum cover.
Girdle Book
Blank textblock sewn on double flexible flax cord supports, laced into mahogany boards.  Primary endband with bead on the spine sewn on alum taw core.  Brown deerskin covering with matching brown deerskin chemise with braided leather knot. 

18th Century Trade Binding:

Single flexible sewn on raised cords.  Hannamule Biblio textblock (blank) with made endsheets.  Single core silk endbands in red and blue.  All three edges sprinkled in yellow and blue.  Calf hand dyed to a warm medium brown .  Cambridge panels sprinkled with black leather dye, and blind tooled.  Blue goatskin label.
German Lap  Binding:

Rebinding of Henrich Heine’s Fämtliche Werte in vier Bänden.  The original endpapers were scanned and reproduced, and the original edge decoration and rolled cloth endbands were retained.  Case binding with lamp component, covered in handmade paste paper.  Printed paper label.

16th Century Gothic Binding: 

Top to Bottom, Left to Right:

Completed textblock with quarter sawn oak boards laced on; herringbone sewing on double flexible supports; primary endband sewn on alum taw cores; vellum spine lining; tying up after covering; finished binding covered in alum taw goatskin, blind tooled in a simple panel design; two piece hook and clasp style fastenings with alum taw & vellum straps affixed with brass escutcheon pins; close-up of clasp attachment and tongue style corners.

Bexx Caswell
Bookbinding and Conservation Portfolio

HISTORIC MODELS