{"id":7752,"date":"2014-03-18T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T05:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=7752"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:10:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:10:32","slug":"half-light-bindery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/18\/half-light-bindery\/","title":{"rendered":"Half Light Bindery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HalfLightBindery5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7757\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/18\/half-light-bindery\/halflightbindery5\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HalfLightBindery5.png\" data-orig-size=\"817,636\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"HalfLightBindery5\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HalfLightBindery5-300x233.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HalfLightBindery5.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7757\" alt=\"HalfLightBindery5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HalfLightBindery5.png\" width=\"670\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HalfLightBindery5.png 817w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HalfLightBindery5-300x233.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As Kevin Sheby graduated from the full-time program at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbss.org\" target=\"_blank\">North Bennet Street School<\/a>, I had to say my goodbyes. He and his wife, with their two dogs, left soon thereafter to return to California. Since graduating in 2013, Kevin has custom built an efficient bindery space where he runs <a href=\"http:\/\/halflightbindery.com\" target=\"_blank\">Half Light Bindery<\/a>\u00a0(which I have to say is a wonderfully chosen bindery name).<\/p>\n<p>Kevin is so talented and has created such amazing work that is both well crafted and artistically executed. Spending time with Kevin at NBSS, made me realize the importance of whole-heartedly investigating bookbinding structures and materials. What are the limits and what are the possibilities. Kevin has such a superb attention to detail and I&#8217;m always looking forward to the work that comes out of his bindery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Kevin launched a <a href=\"http:\/\/halflightbindery.com\/shop\/\" target=\"_blank\">collection of handmade leather products<\/a>. Again his innate attention to details are seen in every product and within the professionalism of his website.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HalfLightBindery3.jpg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HalfLightBindery7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7763\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/18\/half-light-bindery\/halflightbindery7\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/HalfLightBindery7.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"750,502\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON 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He and his wife, with their two dogs, left soon thereafter to return to California. Since graduating in 2013, Kevin has custom built an efficient bindery space where he runs Half Light Bindery\u00a0(which I have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68],"tags":[1867,1417,1031,75,949,42],"class_list":["post-7752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookbinding","tag-bookbinding","tag-half-light-bindery","tag-kevin-sheby","tag-leather","tag-north-bennet-street-school","tag-shop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-212","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11044,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/15\/upcoming-workshops-april-to-june\/","url_meta":{"origin":7752,"position":0},"title":"Upcoming Workshops \/\/ April to June","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"April 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"APRIL: Fundamentals of Bookbinding I April 24 \u2013 28 (Monday \u2013 Friday) 8:30am \u2013 4:30pm North Bennet Street School, Boston MA There are still a few seats available for this workshop. 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