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23.08.2026

Ornament as a Workshop's Signature

A binding is attributed to a specific workshop by its set of tools.

Gold Adheres Only Where There Is Protein

Before tooling, the leather is wiped with egg white.

The Tools Are Still Heated, for Demonstration

A cold tool leaves no mark: tooling needs heat.

A Tool Worn on One Side

The binder held it at an angle, and it shows a century later.

Gold on Leather: An Exhibition of Tools, Not Bindings

Forty brass tools, each for a single element of a pattern.

The Technology That Made the Poster Possible

Lithography gave large format and colour before anything else.

The Stone Weighs More Than the Press

A slab the size of a sheet weighs about sixty kilograms.

Demonstrations Use Water, Despite the Risk

There is no dry way to demonstrate lithography.

A Stone with the Drawing Still on It

A slab never prepared for the next job, so the image stayed.

Grease and Water: Lithography as a Chemical Trick

Printing without relief: a flat stone on which ink adheres selectively.

Paper Dates More Precisely Than Text

A watermark does not lie, because it was not made for the reader.

The Watermark Is Always in One Half of the Sheet

The mark went on one of the two moulds, so in a book it appears every other leaf.

The Photographs Were Made Without Touching the Sheet

The paper lies on a light table, the camera above it.

A Sheet with Two Watermarks at Once

Paper from two different batches, joined in the mill itself.

The Watermark: An Exhibition Viewed Against the Light

The mill's mark shows only when there is light behind the sheet.

Setting Speed as the Limit of Book Production

How many books appeared in a year was decided not by the press but by the compositor's han…

The Spaces Lie in the Middle, Under the Hand

The commonest element of a page is not a letter.

The Lay Was Reconstructed from the Wear of the Boxes

The bottoms of the commonest boxes are rubbed through to pale wood.

A Cyrillic Fount with a Double Supply of «о»

The commonest letter had its own extra box.

The Type Case: A Language's Frequency as Furniture

The commoner the letter, the larger its box. The lay is measured statistics.

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