Bookforge

Erie Labor Temple is back open to the public!
That means that BOOKFORGE is also back open to the public!
Book Restoration & Repair
Workshops
Bespoke Journals, Albums, and Other Bookish Items.
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Erie Labor Temple is back open to the public!
Artist & Creative Studios
First Thursday Night Markets
Soft Socials
Lecture Brawl (civic debates)
Viewing Events
More…

We’re putting together the first ELT Pop-Up Night Market for Thursday, August 6.

I’m keeping this first one fairly small and simple: one evening, a handful of artists, makers, writers, creative businesses, and food vendors filling the building with things they actually make and do.

This isn’t meant to be a giant festival right out of the gate. I’d rather start with something good, learn from it, and build from there.

The market runs from 6–10 PM at Erie Labor Temple, 1701 State Street. Vendor tables are only $10, and I still have room for a few more people.

If you make art, books, prints, ceramics, jewelry, clothing, strange objects, food, or something else people ought to know about, send me a message or email [email protected].

ELT POP-UP NIGHT MARKET
Thursday, August 6
6–10 PM
Erie Labor Temple
1701 State Street

Come out, bring someone, and help us make the first one a good one.

Here's one more new Bookforge item in the Erie Labor Temple online store!

A book for the moment when music is still half-heard.

The Working Score pairs college-ruled writing pages with eight-staff music pages, giving composers, songwriters, musicians, and musical thinkers one place for melody, language, structure, and revision. Write lyrics and notes between the staves, or connect them to create bass-and-treble grand staffs.

Hand-bound by Edward Patrick Kranz at the BOOKFORGE bindery studio in Erie Labor Temple, the journal is half-bound in dark brown goatskin and rust Asahi bookcloth, with mint Hahnemühle Bugra made endpapers, hand-sewn endbands, and a linen-sewn textblock.

A composition book built with the seriousness of the work it is meant to hold.

The Working Score — A Hand-Bound Composer’s Journal | Erie Labor Temple Before a song becomes a performance, it exists in fragments. A phrase written in the margin. A melody caught before it disappears. Three lines of lyric without a chorus. A chord change, a question, a rhythm tapped against the table. Music rarely arrives in a straight line. The Working Score was buil...

A journal made for a lifetime of unfinished thoughts.

Hand-bound by Edward Patrick Kranz in the BOOKFORGE bindery studio, this 6 × 9-inch bullet journal draws its form from seventeenth-century Cambridge bindings. Full calf leather, raised cords, traditional blind tooling, hand-sewn endbands, and marbled papers by master marbler Renato Crepaldi give the book the gravity of an object built to endure.

Inside, 240 pages of BOOKFORGE-designed, dateless planning pages let you begin, pause, and begin again—without wasting a single month.

A working book with an old soul.

The Cambridge Perpetual — A Hand-Bound Dateless Journal | Erie Labor Temple THE CAMBRIDGE PERPETUAL Full-Calf Dateless Journal · Hand-Bound by BOOKFORGE Some journals are made to record a season. This one is made to survive your return. Hand-bound by traditional bookbinder Edward Patrick Kranz in the BOOKFORGE bindery studio at Erie Labor Temple, this dark-academia bullet ...

New work from BOOKFORGE coming to the Erie Labor Temple online shop!

It never gets old. I love that feeling when a client picks up thier 1780s folio sized antiquarian book, freshly restored at BOOKFORGE now at Erie Labor Temple !

BOOKFORGE people understand this kind of work.

Rooms do not become useful by accident. Tables need to be cleared. Supplies need to be sorted. Walls need to be prepped. Systems need to be built. Details need to be handled before anyone gets to do the beautiful part.

Erie Labor Temple is in build mode before reopening this fall, and we are organizing volunteer crews for practical, useful work.

Good fits from the BOOKFORGE orbit:
• patient hands
• detail people
• workshop helpers
• organizers
• cleaners
• room-prep people
• people who can follow a clear process
• people who like making workspaces actually work

Email Edward at [email protected].
Subject line: ELT Volunteer Crew

Help build the rooms before we fill them.

What's on your workbench today!?