Adam Larsson

Professional training, career
Adam Larsson is a Swedish bookbinder and book conservator with more than thirty years of experience in the preservation, study, and craftsmanship of historical book structures. Trained at Hantverkets folkhögskola in Leksand, he has built a career that combines practical conservation, historical research, and international teaching.

Current activity
Since 1994 he has worked at Uppsala universitetsbibliotek, where he is responsible for the conservation and restoration of a wide range of materials—from standard library bindings to rare and fragile historical volumes. His recent work includes serving as conservator for the Nationalmuseum project Illuminerade manuskript (2022–2023), focusing on parchment, medieval pigments, and manuscript conservation.
Adam has an extensive record as an educator and lecturer. For nearly three decades he has been a recurring guest teacher at Hantverkets folkhögskola in Leksand, teaching traditional and historical bookbinding, box-making, and book conservation. Internationally, he has taught workshops and delivered lectures across the United States, the United Kingdom, Finland, Italy, and Jordan.

Further information
From 1999 to 2008 he co-founded and led the ALAZ Summer School in Ekenäs, Finland—an annual program devoted to historical bookbinding techniques and material studies, which gathered practitioners from across Europe.
Adam’s continuing professional development spans medieval book structures, parchment conservation, papermaking traditions, pigment history, and specialized treatments for complex materials. He has trained at institutions such as the Hornemann Institute, the University of Copenhagen, and through numerous advanced courses in Europe and the United States.
His career is characterized by a commitment to the preservation of written cultural heritage, deep expertise in historical techniques, and a long-standing dedication to sharing knowledge within the international conservation and bookbinding community.