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To design and craft boxes with efficiency & precision

When it comes to box making, French Cartonnage, using the right materials and tools is essential for achieving both speed and precision in your crafting. French Cartonnage, a traditional technique that combines greyboard with beautiful decorative fabrics or papers, requires a set of specialized tools to ensure clean cuts, strong construction, and flawless finishes. Essential materials include high-quality greyboard, fabric (linen, velvet, or paper), glue, and decorative elements like ribbons. To craft efficiently and effectively, having the right tools—such as a sharp craft knife, ruler, teflon folder, and corner cutters—can help streamline the process and enhance the quality of your work. With the proper setup, you can create professional-looking, functional boxes with ease, whether you're working on custom commissions or personal projects.

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Bag with 5-in-1 cartonnage tool

The perfect tool for crafting cartonnage:

1. perfect greyboard placement with the 90 degrees angle

2. create consistent hinges (up to 0.1" | 2,5 mm)

3. trim corners at the proper angle (up to 0.1" | 2,5 mm)

4. easily round corners

5. mark spot for elastic closure

This tool is easy to clean and will last a lifetime!

$20.00

incl. VAT, shipping costs apply

0.09 kg
Ships within 2-3 days

Bag with teflon folder & 5-in-1 cartonnage tool

A bag filled with:

teflon folder (5.9 x 0.8 x 0.3" | 15,0 x 2,0 x 0,8 cm)

5-in-1 tool

$39.00

incl. VAT, shipping costs apply

0.13 kg
Ships within 2-3 days

Bag with curated tools

A bag filled with:

PVA glue (275 g)

roller & tray

brush

3 metal rulers in different widths and lengths

teflon folder (5.9 x 0.8 x 0.3" | 15,0 x 2,0 x 0,8 cm)

5-in-1 cartonnage tool

snap-off knife with refills

rubber for removing dried glue on book cloth

sanding paper

2 tapes

cloth

$95.00

incl. VAT, shipping costs apply

1.1 kg
Ships within 2-3 days

Bag with corner & divider guides

These guides will save you time and money, and is better for the environment because you have to use and throw away less masking tape

A bag filled with:

- 4 guides for assembling corners while you wait for the glue to dry

- 2 T-shaped guides to create dividers in your box

- 2 instruction videos how to use these guides

You can use the guides two ways:

I. Glue the short sides to the bottom board of the tray, and with gluing and attaching the large sides on the short sides, you use these guides. This is the way of crafting you'll learn with my courses

II. Assemble the outside of the tray first by using these guides, after that you glue and place the bottom board of the tray in place and press firmly

With the T-shaped guides you can easily create a divider without masking tape

These guides are for crafting small to medium size boxes

You can use the guides for greyboard thicknesses up to 0.1" | 3 mm

See the instruction videos below or on the card in the bag how to use these guides

$25.00

incl. VAT, shipping costs apply

0.13 kg
Ships within 2-3 days

instruction videos how to use these guides

I. Glue the short sides to the bottom board of the tray,

and with gluing and attaching the large sides on the short sides, use these guides

This is the way of crafting you'll learn with my courses

II. Assemble the outside of the tray first by using these guides, after that glue

and place the bottom board of the tray in place and press firmly

GREYBOARD SHEETS A4

Greyboard sheets in the size A4 (portrait)

5 * 0.02" | 0,5 mm ─ 5 * 0.04" | 1 mm ─ 5 * 0.08" | 2 mm ─ 5 * 0.1" | 2,5 mm

$20.00

incl. VAT, shipping costs apply

1.33 kg
Ships within 2-3 days

4 rolls of linen book cloth

The linen book cloth is FSC certified, CO2 carbon neutral, vegan & produced in Europe

The linen book cloth has a paper base, and can be used with foil stamping, blind stamping, silk screen & inkjet printing

Rolls of 11.8 x 53.9" | 30,0 x 137,0 cm

Please note that the length of the iceberg & seychelle book cloth is 39.4" | 100,00 cm.

$32.00

incl. VAT, shipping costs apply

0.52 kg
Ships within 2-3 days

Starter kit

A starter kit includes pre-cut greyboard and book cloth, precisely sized to match the course measurements, allowing you to begin crafting your selected box design right away. You can choose from flax, seychelle, celadon and iceberg book cloth

Please indicate at check out for which course you want a starter kit, and what color book cloth you want

$20.00

incl. VAT, shipping costs apply