Bookbinding

Custom-Made Boxes

Custom-building a box is a lot like building a house. Pardon my drama, but like bookbinding, there is sincere engineering and architecture involved. When I am building a box to house an existing book, I must consider the dimensions of the book itself, as well as that of the intended cloth or materials to be used. The slightest variation can throw the entire process off, rendering a box that is either too small or too big. This can be a challenge, and I find this to be very gratifying.

While one knows immediately after building a box if it is too small, few things are more pointless than a too-big box. Your rare or valuable book would simply swim around in it, and in these instances, a too-big box can actually be more damaging to the book itself.

I like to make my boxes just right.