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Simon’
This tool helps to hold letters or big ornamens. It holds the heat for at least 10 minutes. With the brass protection Simon has to be used in a holder. Without the brass protection Simon can be screwed in a temperature controlled soldering iron. The ornament can have a maximum temperature of 115 degrees Celcius.
The price of ‘Simon’ is € 75,- , postale charges not included
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Tooling/embossing set with manual
This tooling set consist of 20 ornaments and ornament holder packed in a wooden box. Added to the box silver – and gold foil, bees wax and sponge.
The manual tells you how to tool the covers of your books with gold and silver foil or how to ‘blind’ emboss the cover to give an even more vintage look.
The price of the tooling set is € 74,- postal charges not included.
3 Boxes available at the Kensington Show Friday 12 and Saterday 13 of May.
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Photoalbum kit
Learn how to make a photoalbum with a thicker spine, needed for the extra volume of the pasted photo’s. The bookblock is of black paper with glassine between paper.
You can choose from various colours imitation leather; green, blue, brown, red, purple, black, grey.
The kit included all materials and instruction cost € 11,50,- , postal charges not included
8 in stock
Basic Bookbinding Kit
In this kit introduces you to the terminology of bookbinding. You will learn the basics of how to make a bookblock and the binding (cover) Part one are simpel books with a linen cover, Part 2 learns you the more older looking books with ribs on the spine. The kit provides you with enough cover material voor appr. 85 books. .
Materials: bookbind linen, imitation leather, bookbind glue, black paper, headband fabric, and endpaper.
New: gold and silver foil with description how to decorate the book covers.
This kit included material cost € 23,- postal charges not included.
15 in stock
Artist portfolio kit
Description for creating a folder with silk bow straps, in which drawings are stored.
Materials: – hand-marbled kievits paper – black textile print paper – matching coloured paper for the inside – black silk bow straps.
You can choose from: green, cyclamen, blue and yellow.
This entire kit including materials costs € 8,- excluding shipping costs.
8 in stock
Piggelmee, “The Magic Fish” kit
A booklet from our youth, beautifully offset printed, in the original color
A unique opportunity to add this miniature booklet with ISBN number to your dollhouse.
This updated edition of this package contains; the original piggelmee printing sheet and the cassette to store the booklet.
This kit including the materials and a detailed description costs € 12,50 excluding shipping costs
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Tulip book by P. Cos (1633) kit
Printed sections for the experienced bookbinder. Without manual or description about bookbinding.
This book houses 54 gouaches van tulips by P. Cos and 12 drawings by Pieter Holsteijn. The book consists of 11 sections of 8 pages with 54 gouaches of tulips by P. Cos and 12 drawings by Pieter Holsteijn. There are also a few drawings of other flowers added.
Ultra thin leather for the cover can be ordered separately.
The printed sections to bind the book, cost € 17,50 postal charges not included.
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School Geography map kit
Fourteen beautifully nostalgic printed school maps to hang on the wall of the classroom for the geography and history lesson.
The pattern for a matching map box is included free of charge!
kit 1
Overview map Netherlands (the provinces) plus matching sticks with pre-drilled holes and wire to hang the school card. This entire package including description costs € 5,00 excluding shipping costs.
kit 2
All provinces of the year 1950, North Holland, South Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Brabant, Friesland, Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel, Gelderland, Limburg. Java-Indonesia and the Netherlands in East and West as well as the overview map of the Netherlands. This package including description, costs € 17,50 excluding shipping costs.
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Cookbook in four different languages kit
Quality printing in a DIY package, cookbooks from four different countries. This is a package for the advanced miniaturist. With this package you will learn how to sew a book block whose middle section is printed.
- When you buy all four cookbook kits in one go, you only pay € 30,- excluding shipping costs.
Het Goedkope Kookboek
The Dutch cookbook with recipes such as:
– Rice porridge
– Buckwheat barley and buttermilk – Bread with plums Materials: – coloured paper – printed matter – blank paper – title label
This DIY kit including materials costs € 10,- excluding shipping costs.
Cookery Book
The English cookbook with recipes such as:
– Rhubarb pie
– Eggles pumpkin Filling
– Flap presspie
Materials: – coloured paper – printed matter – blank paper – title label
This DIY kit including materials costs € 10,- excluding shipping costs.
Koch Buch
The German cookbook with recipes such as:
– Mehl oder Eggpfannkuchen
– Bratkartofflen
– Bauernfrühstück
Materials: – coloured paper – printed matter – blank paper – title label
This DIY kit including materials costs € 10,- excluding shipping costs.
Kogebog
The Danish cookbook with recipes such as:
– Rå marineret fisk
– Havtaske medallion med Squash sauce
– Skirt finger
Materials: – coloured paper – printed matter – blank paper – title label
This DIY kit including materials costs € 10,- excluding shipping costs.
4 in stock
The Model Menagerie (1895) DIY
2,2 cm by 3,1 cm
A pop-up book by E.Nistel
For the experienced bookbinder.
A real challenge to make, especially the cutting and folding of the pop-up scenes. It requires a lot of patience and a good hand- and eye coördination.
The kit comes with a comprehensive manual. With emphasis on the working order and tips for cutting out the cages and animals as well as sewing such complicated pages.
The book consists of 7 signatures with 6 stories and matchins illustrations and poop-up scenes.
The costs of this challenging kit are € 45,- .
The costs for the DIY kit in the ‘Bondi’ size are € 55,- .
15 in stock
Mappe Monde (1700) kit
A World Atlas of Guillaume de L’Isle from Paris
Printed sections for the experienced bookbinder,
The book consists of 13 sections of 8 pages and contains 44 maps / cards. The maps are printed across two pages. Some maps are horizontal or vertical fold out maps. Therefore the pages are cut to size prior to binding, considering the edge of the cards.
Included with a short manual.
This kit, included manual costs € 30,-
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Wizards and witches books, notebooks and parchment scrolls DIY kit
These booklets are only for sale at our stand at dolls house fairs.
You can also make these magical books, notebooks and parchment scrolls yourself with the help of the printed matter of our witches DIY Kit.
You will have to color the pentagram page at the heart of the book by yourself. And your will do probably well the come up with mysterious recipes.
The DIY package costs € 11,50
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Collectively Speaking (2017) kit
Kaye Browning
In this lovely book, Kaye Browning tells you about her passion of collecting miniatures from all over de world. She is a dedicated collector for over 40 years and the top pieces of her collection are on display in the Kentucky Gateway Museum in Maysville USA.
This booklet contains beautiful pictures of het collection and is legible with a magnifying glass.
This miniature facsimile measures 1,8 bij 1,8 cm square.
The DIY kit costs 15 euro.
10 in stock
Vergilius Maronis Opera published in 1730 DIY
Offset printed pages to bind the collected works of Virgil Maro (15 BC) yourself. For the experienced bookbinder.
This book is written by Vergilli Maro. I have only included the first three chapters in this miniature book because of its small size.
The book is originally published in 1730 and the text is in Latin. The beautifull endpaper on the front is part of the first signature. The book consists of 11 signatures, all together 88 pages with 30 lines of readable text per pages. A magnifying glass is highly recommended.
These printed pages come without a manual.
Extra thin leather for the cover can also be ordered.
The pages of Vergilius Maronis cost €12,50, postale charges not included.
The white golden lorgnet, by Jens Torp, is not included.
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Dirck de Bray, Short lessons in Bookbinding (1658) Kit
Beautifull offset printed pages, with 17 illustrations for the experienced bookbinders and miniaturists,
He wrote a manual for bookbinding illustrated with colored pen drawings. He drew the various bookbinding tools and scenes of the bookbinding shop, while his colleagues are at work.
The book consists of 12 signatures. Originally in ‘old’ Dutch. Published in two languages Dutch and English.
For the publication of this book, cooperation was provided by the Noord Hollands archief in Haarlem.
Any very thin leather for the band can be ordered separately.
The printing costs € 15,- , excluding shipping costs.
9 in stock
File Holder kit
Sizes: Height 1-1/16″, Width 15/16″
The perfect scene, an office desk with an open file holder. Someone is very busy.
You can choose classic colors like black- and grey clouded paper or modern colors like red, green and blue
Materials: basic File holder, material to make the metal mechanism, paper for Tabs in different colors plus white paper to make notes to fill the file holder.
This kit costs € 13,50, included material. Excluding shipping costs.
8 in stock