Businesses for Creative Baby Boomers – Bookbinding

Over the weekend I read a story about woman in North Carolina who has a thriving business as a bookbinder.  For someone who loves books, this would be a great business. And for a baby boomer who is looking for a creative business, it would be lots of fun.  Book binding is also a recession-proof business, because it caters to people who have money, and who aren’t worried about getting laid off.

Of course, I had to  check out places where you can get training in how to do book binding.  I found that the Guild of BookWorkers has many study opportunities around the U.S. and the world.  The Guild has been in existence since 1906, and is dedicated to “kinship” between those in the “hand book crafts.”

In Iowa, theUniversity of Iowa Center for the Book has a 24-hour graduate program in book binding, and there are many special programs and exhibits of book binding each year.  I’m sure your area has similar types of opportunities.

I will put book binding on my list of possibilities for when I retire.  The list is already too full, but who cares?

http://www.uiowa.edu/~ctrbook/programs/requirements.shtml