Stationers were either booksellers, illuminators, or bookbinders. Five spaces were designed for tailors, bookbinders, shoemakers, mat makers and painters. Other friars worked as copyists and illuminators of manuscripts, or bookbinders, later also as printers. Many pressmen left the ITU for the Bookbinders. Van Reybrouck was born into a family of florists, bookbinders and artists. In 1998, Rob Shepherd of Shepherds Bookbinders bought both Zaehnsdorf and Sangorski & Sutcliffe. The work of typical American colonial bookbinders was crude when compared to Ratcliff's. The tools used by Mahieu's bookbinders have been analysed. Many bookbinders consider the Bradel binding to be stronger than a case binding. Bone folders are still used by bookbinders. Membership in the Guild is common, though not universal, among American bookbinders. Bookbinders used some of the same techniques used today to create hand bound books. Bookbinders are often active in both fields. Crusell was born in Uusikaupunki (Swedish&colon; Nystad), Finland, into a poor family of bookbinders. Theodoricus van Sittard and Johannes Leerdam were well-known bookbinders around 1500.