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The Guild of Book Workers Journal is published annually by the Guild of Book Workers and contains articles that address our members' interests in the arts and crafts of the book, including traditional bookbinding, paper making and decorating, conservation and restoration, calligraphy, the making of artists' books, and printing. Published continuously since 1962, the GBWJ welcomes submissions from members and nonmembers.

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All journals are available for download in PDF format. Exhibit catalogs are available in an online exhibit.

2025

2024

2023

2022

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Volume 54 (for members only)

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Volume 53 (for members only)

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Volume 52

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Volume 51

Table of Contents
  • I Like to Move It, Move It
    Katarina Stiller 
  • German Hybrid Book Sewing Machines at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
    Jeff Peachey and Peter D. Verheyen 
  • Irish bookbinders' tickets
    Samuel Ellenport 
  • Fanbinding: A Renegade Approach to Bookbinding
    Æther 
  • Establishing Composition and Provenance for Historical Paste Papers
    Mitchel Gundrum 
  • Travails of a Private Press Printer
    Craig Jobson
  • Washi in the West–Part Two Washi in the Realms of Western Book and Paper Conservation
    Amanda Gould, Laura Hashimoto, Natasa Krsmanovic
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  • Editor’s Note
  • Ribbon Gold Leaf: A Brief History Of Gold Leaf On Rolls
    Samuel B. Ellenport
  • Danish Paper Bindings: More Than Millimeter 
    Mark J. Andersson
  • Adhered-Thread Sewing Support Extensions 
    Graham Patten
  • An Interview With Mindell Dubansky
    Kim Knox Norman
  • Washi In The West—Part One 
    Washi Words: Japanese Paper Terminology In Western Conservation Practices
    Amanda Gould, Laura Hashimoto, Natasa Krsmanovic
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  • An interview with Jerushia Graham
    Kim Knox Norman
  • Prints, Pleats, and Preservation: Vietnamese Handmade Dó Paper and Its Applications
    James Ojascastro
  • Bookbinding and the Cotting School
    Samuel Ellenport
  • This is What I Call It/ This is How I Do It: Three Approaches to a Common Case Binding Technique
    Anna Embree, Deborah Howe, Consuela Metzger
  • Mgnetic Charm: Constructing a Three Piece Collapsible Book Cradle
    Caitlin Jochym
  • The Emperor Has New Clothes: Conserving an Imperial Ethiopian Manuscript
    Garrett Sumner
  • In Pursuit of History: An Undergraduate’s Experience with Bookbinding
    Louisa Eastley
  •  The Industrial Sand Casting of Brass Types for Bookbinders in Germany around 1910
    Daniel John Andrew Reynolds
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  • Tooling with Foils: An Alternative Approach
    Roger Green
  • Making a Place for Paper: Presented at the GBW Standards of Excellence 2021
    Radha Pandey
  • Preserving the Passage of Time through Anachronistic Bindings
    Jen Hunt Johnson & Maren Rozumalski
  • Revisiting Travel Journals while Sheltering in Place
    Dorothy Krause
  • Home Lab
    Craig Fansler
  • Binding Isolation
    Todd Davis
  • The Pandemic, Pangolins and a Book Artist’s Life
    Gabby Cooksey
  • Making the Quarantine Public Library
    Tracy Honn & Katie Garth
  • Three Reflections on Lockdown Independent Learning
    Lena Krämer
  • Reflections: A Series of Interviews Documenting the Voices of Book Art and Craft Practitioners, Students, and Educators
    Jeff Altepeter
    Laura Beyer
    Sarah Bryant
    Erin Fletcher
    Mitch Gundrum
    Andrew Huot
    Aimee Lee
    

2021

2020

2019

2018

Volume 50 (WILD/LIFE exhibit website)

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Volume 49

Volume 48

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Table of Contents
  • Empowering Women’s Voices: Two projects in the Caucasus Region
    Melanie Mowinski with Suzi Banks Baum, and Miriam Schaer
  • The pixel binding
    Ben Elbel
  • Notes on working with parchment from an allied craft
    Sarah Pringle
  • A leather covered harpsichord
    Samuel B. Ellenport
  

All journals are available for download in PDF format. Exhibit catalogs are available in an online exhibit.

 

Volume LIV: 54 (Members Only)2025
Volume LIII: 53 (Members Only)2024
Volume LII: 522023
Volume LI: 512022
Volume L:  50 (exhibition site)2021
Volume XLIX / 492020
Volume XLVIII:  482019
Volume XLVI:  46  
Volume XLVII:  47 (exhibition site)		2018
Volume XLV: 45, 20122012
Volume XLIV: 44, 2010-20112013
Volume XLIII:  43, 20092010
Volume XLII: 42, Centennial Issue 2008Ongoing
Volume XLI: 41, Number 2Fall 2007
Volume XLI: 41, Number 1Summer 2006
Volume XL: 40, Number 1Summer 2005
Volume XXXIX:  39, Number 2Fall 2004
Volume XXXIX:  39, Number 1Spring 2004
Volume XXXVIII:  38, Number 1Fall 2003
Volume XXXVII:  37, Number 2Fall 2002
Volume XXXVII:  37, Number 12002
Volume XXXVI:  36, Number 22001
Volume XXXVI:  36, Number 12000
Volume XXXV: 35, Number 11998
Volume XXXV: 35, Number 2 Section A2000
Volume XXXV: 35, Number 2 Section B1999
Volume XXXIV:  34, Number 11996
Volume XXXIV:  34, Number 2 Section A1998
Volume XXXIV:  34, Number 2 Section B1997
Volume XXXIII:  33, Number 1Spring 1995
Volume XXXIII:  33, Number 2Fall 1995
Volume XXXII:  32, Number 1Spring 1994
Volume XXXII:  32, Number 2Fall 1994
Volume XXXI: 31Spring/Fall 1993
Volume XXX: 30, Number 1Spring 1992
Volume XXX: 30, Number 2Fall 1992
Volume XXIX: 29, Number 1Spring 1991
Volume XXIX: 29, Number 2Fall 1991
Volume XXVIII:  28Spring/Fall 1990
Volume XXVII:  27, Number 1Spring 1989
Volume XXVII:  27, Number 2Fall 1989
Volume XXVI: 261987-1988
Volume XXV: 25, Number 1 Section AFall 1986
Volume 25, Number 1 Section BFall 1986
Volume XXV: 25, Number 2Spring 1987
Volume XXIV: 24, Number 1Fall 1985
Volume XXIV: 24, Number 2Spring 1986
Volume XXIII: 231984 - 1985
Volume 22, Number 1Fall/Winter 1983
Volume XXII: 22, Number 2Spring/Summer 1984
Volume XXI: 21, Number 1Fall 1982
Volume XXI: 21, Number 2Spring 1983
Volume XX: 20Spring 1981-82
Volume XIX: 19Spring 1980-81
Volume XVIII:  18, Number 11979-80
Volume XVIII:  18, Number 21979-80
Volume XVII: 17Spring 1978-79
Volume XVI: 161977-78
Volume XV: 151976-77
Volume XIV: 14, Number 1Fall 1975
Volume XIV: 14, Number 2Winter 1975-76
Volume XIV: 14, Number 3Spring 1976
Volume XIII: 13, Number 1Fall 1974
Volume XIII: 13, Number 2Winter 1974-75
Volume XIII: 13, Number 3Spring 1975
Volume XII: 12, Number 1Fall 1973
Volume XII: 12, Number 2Winter 1973-74
Volume XII: 12, Number 3Spring 1974
Volume XI: 11, Number 1Fall 1972
Volume XI: 11, Number 2 Winter 1973-73
Volume XI: 11, Number 3Spring 1973
Volume X: 10, Number 1 Section AFall 1971
Volume X: 10, Number 1 Section B1972
Volume X: 10, Number 2Winter 1971-2
Volume X: 10, Number 3Spring 1972
Volume IX: 9, Number 1Fall 1970
Volume IX: 9, Number 2Winter 1970-71
Volume IX: 9, Number 3Spring 1971
Volume VIII: 8, Number 1Fall 1969
Volume VIII: 8, Number 2Winter 1969-70
Volume VIII: 8, Number 3Spring 1970
Volume VII: 7, Number 1Fall 1968
Volume VII: 7, Number 2Winter 1968-69
Volume VII: 7, Number 3Spring 1969
Volume VI: 6, Number 1Fall 1967
Volume VI: 6, Number 2Winter 1967-68
Volume VI: 6, Number 3Spring 1968
Volume V: 5, Number 1Fall 1966
Volume V: 5, Number 2Winter 1966-67
Volume V: 5, Number 3Spring 1967
Volume IV: 4, Number 1Fall 1965
Volume IV: 4, Number 2Winter 1966
Volume IV: 4, Number 3 Section ASpring 1966
Volume IV: 4, Number 3 Section BSpring 1966
Volume III: 3, Number 1Fall 1964
Volume III: 3, Number 2Winter 1964-65
Volume III: 3, Number 3Spring 1965
Volume II: 2, Number 1Fall 1963
Volume II: 2, Number 2Winter 1963
Volume II: 2, Number 3Spring 1964
Volume I: 1, Number 1Fall 1962
Volume I: 1, Number 2Winter 1963
Volume I: 1, Number 3Spring 1963
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Editorial Board Members
  • Susie Cobbledick Co-Chair (first year, second term)
  • Alycia Carey
  • Craig Fansler
  • Carmen Torrado Gonzalez
  • Martyna Gryko
  • Missy Nicholson
  • Kim Norman


 

Journal Index of Content from 1962-2024

Alan Shalette created an index of the entire run of GBW Journals up to 2009. It has been updated by the Journal team to 2024. Any corrections please email journal@guildofbookworkers.org