High Quality Craftsmanship with Conservation Standards and Ethics.

 

 

BOOKBINDING

Custom Bookbinding, Period Binding, Design Binding, box making, and enclosures.

CONSERVATIOn

Conservation. Restoration. Repair. Collection surveys and preservation recommendations for individuals and Institutions. 

Art

Artist books and prints, collaborates with other artists.

Fine Binding. Period Binding

 
“Fine Bindings will often be executed with a particular design reflecting the content of the text. These are called design binding and are viewed as objets d’art.
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Conservation

All work is done in a manner sympathetic to the time of the original bindings of the publication unless a conservation design binding is requested and appropriate.

 

Artist Books, Broadsides, Prints and Ephemera

 

Off Piste Press produces traditional letterpress works from both hot and cold type and prints primarily on a Vandercook 4T cylinder press, and also on a Chandler and Price Gordon platen press. Projects include broadsides, artists books, cards, invitations and other prints.

 

 

 

 

Clients

 

Clients include the Archive Society of Alberta, City of Calgary, The Banff Centre, Conservation Solutions Inc., Glenbow Museum, University of Calgary, The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, University of Lethbridge, Canmore Museum and Private Collectors.

 

 
 

Services

  • Conservation Examination and Treatment

  • Preventive Conservation

  • Collection Surveys

  • Emergency Planning

  • Curatorial Services from a conservation perspective

  • Condition Assessments prior to purchase - not appraisals

  • Lectures and workshops about caring for your books and archival materials

  • Digitization

  • Facsimile copies of an original

  • Design Binding