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Just realized a 15th century bookbinder could fit more signatures in a day than my old shop did
I was reading a plaque at the Grolier Club in NYC last month and it said a medieval shop could sew and glue up around 60 books a day with just a handful of guys working. That got me thinking about the debate between hand work and speed: some folks say slow and careful is the only real way, others say the old crews were fast because they had a system, not because they cut corners. Where do you land on this, is chasing speed a trap or is it the whole point of a good workflow?
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