Hibrkraft World
What we do besides selling books.
A bookbinding glossary, 445 pieces of writing about journaling, 200 print-ready paper templates, classes at the workshop — and a few things not finished yet.
Track Record
- 15 Years of Work
- 100,000+ Products Made
- 4.9 Google Rating · 85 reviews
- 4 Countries UAE · MY · CA · DE
- 2,000 pcs Capacity / Month
- Trusted by
- Pertamina · POLRI · PPLi · Unilever
- Covered by
- TVRI · Trans7 · MNC Home Living · iNews Radio
- In print
- Tabloid Nova · Bogor Today · Tren Bogor
- Awards
- UDUNAN 2020 Winner · Ekraf Jabar · Mitra Jabar
For vendor applications, tenders and corporate partnerships.
What you can use
Four ways in
Glossary99 bookbinding terms, from abglätten to nonpareil comb marbling. Free, and written nowhere else in Indonesian.Open the glossary
Journal445 pieces on writing by hand, caring for books, and working leather. It is the most-read part of the site.Read the journal
Paper templates200 print-ready PDFs: dot grid, squared, ruled, isometric, music manuscript, and 2027 planners. Free, with nothing to sign up for.See the templates
ExperienceCome to the workshop, sew the book yourself, and take it home the same day. Four hours, two packages to choose from.See the classes
Since 2011
Why bother
And why it is free with nothing to sign up for. We could have put those 200 template files behind an email form — that is how most places do it. We decided not to. Someone who needs dot grid paper to print tonight is not looking to subscribe to anything, and trading something useful for their email address turns a gift into a transaction. Just take the file.
Hibrkraft began with a simple disquiet: people had stopped writing by hand. Not because handwriting is bad, but because nothing was left that made anyone want to do it.
So we made the thing. The rest — the glossary, the writing, the paper templates, the classes — grew out of that.
The Backroom
Not finished yet
Some things we work on without a release date. We name them here so their status is plain: not yet orderable.
- A limited-edition series — the run size set per release
- Letters from the founder — occasional, unscheduled
The “Senja di Merbabu” collection was once on this list. Work on it stopped, so we removed it — a list full of plans that never happened is worse than a short one.
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Collaboration
We work leather, paper and thread. Bamboo, batik and calligraphy are done by others — artisans who genuinely command them, and whose names we print. The monogram alongside is painted by hand, not printed.
Aban of Sagala Tina Awi makes the bamboo pen bodies, shaped one at a time because every internode differs in diameter. The patterned cover cloth comes from Batik Handayani. The Hk monogram is hand-painted by Pak Munawir of Beladuarna, who spends his days on calligraphy panels measured in metres. We do not sell other people’s work as our own.
Off the shelf
Three things that fit no category at all
Not products, not services. Just three things that happened because people used the books.
Archive
A few that are finished
Which one would you like?
If you are unsure where to start, just ask.
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