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In June 2016, Hedi Kyle, who had been invited by Marja Wilgenkamp to teach a workshop in Blokker, Netherlands, gave a presentation of her work in a Meet & Greet session, organised by us in Amsterdam. Unsurprisingly a lot of people came, from the Netherlands but also from Germany and Belgium. Among

Bindery Wilgenkamp is organising an inspiring workshop Pop-ups on Monday 26 September 2016, in collaboration with Artcenter De Blauwe Schuit in Hoorn. A Teach the Teachers workshop by Paul Johnson, pop-up specialist from the UK. Paul developed a method specially for teachers in primary schools to make pop-ups with children of

Meet & Greet On Wednesday evening 9 March 2016 we had the Meet & Greet with Daniel Kelm (USA). A very inspiring and intriguing meeting ! What he offers in knowledge and innovative bookstructures is very intersting. At the moment Benjamin Elbel is busy to make a tutorial of the

Text from the website of the Royal Library in The Haque. Bookbinder Marja Wilgenkamp has bound a book with covers of 3d printing. The Royal Library bought this hyper modern bookcover for her collection and in this way, they have a library scoop with this 3d printed object. The cover

The book, bound in paper, limited edition. The book is offset printed on Hahnemuhle Ingres paper, 90 gram in a edition of 65 books. The content of the book is a collaboration between Marja Wilgenkamp and La Societe Anonyme. The binding of the paper edition was carried out by Elbel

Saturday 1 June 2013. Benjamin Elbel will give a lecture/demonstration on Saturday 1 June 2013 at tyhe Donorsday of the Stichting Handboekbinden, organised in collaboration with Bindery Wilgenkamp. Benjamin Elbel is a young French binder who lives and works in London (since 2015 moved to The Netherlands, based in Haarlem).

The SKOR Codex is a printed book which will be sent to different locations on earth in the year 2012. Bound by Marja Wilgenkamp, commissioned by La Société Anonyme. The SKOR Codex is a printed book which will be sent to different locations on earth in the year 2012. It

In 1996 a bookbinding competition was organised by papershop Damen and boxmakingshop Maria Klawer, both then based in The Hague. Everything in collaboration with museum Panorama Mesdag. It was the first competition I joined as starting bookbinder.

In 1999 a competition miniature bindings was organised by the bookbinding society (now: Stichting Handboekbinden). The prints were made by publisher Philip Elchers in Groningen. One book was bound with a free content and one was bound with a content that was given by the publisher. Here a picture of