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Monday, May 10, 2010

Bookbinding in Perigueux (for my bookbinding pals)

Whilst we were wandering around the old part of Perigueux, I stumbled upon the Bookbinding business of Christophe Legrande.  His main line of work is book restoration and gilding and he has clients from all over France, Spain, Belgium, USA.  Parisians spend a lot of money having very old books restored apparently.  Christophe was kind enough to allow me to take these photographs …

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014b (555x800)Christophe holding a new book restoration, and one to be started 026b (527x800)027b (536x800)Some of Christophe’s tools – they are arranged according to which century the pattern belongs to 022b (432x800)This book press from 1862, was found in an old workshop

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