Tom McEwan, a Scottish bookbinder and bookbinding teacher, has been a guest on our podcast and live stream a couple of times already. But both times, we focused on books. This time, however, we decided to talk more about Tom's studio—especially since there's a great reason to do that: Tom recently moved to a new workshop!
This time, we talk to Erin Fletcher, a bookbinder from Boston well-known for her embroidered bindings. Besides using embroidery in her bookbinding, Erin has an amazing blog with tons of interviews with other bookbinders (which acts more as an archive now), a very inspiring Instagram account, teaching, and many other things!
It's such a great pleasure to see this wonderful review of our magnetic corner clamps for boxmaking! Thanks a lot, Darryn!
I hope you can help me with something. I recently found this engraving you can see below. It depicts a printing press (in a sort of instructional way), a composing stick, and a rolling press. However, I can't find its source or date it.
Earlier this year, iBookBinding moved from France to the UK. In April, we got our workshop space, and until now, we are still figuring out how better to use it! There are still lots of boxes everywhere and not enough order =)
This time on iBookBinding's Podcast, we discuss the material and structural history of bookbinding. Our guest is Emily K. Bell, a book conservator. This is the first part of the three we recorded a while ago. Some of the things have changed in the lives of our guest and of the hosts of the podcast. But the historical/bookish part definitely remains actual.
This time we invited bookbinder Zeenat Azmi to discuss the state of bookbinding in Eritrea (and not only!) We covered topics from traditional bookbinding styles of the region and the use of papyrus to the influence of Islam and Christianity in Eritrea.
Paola Fagnola and Gloria Conti are conducting a research on the use of digital communication in the field of book and paper conservation. We would much appreciate it if you help them by filling out a questionnaire they prepared
We've discussed the collection on our live stream before, but this time we decided to have a professional comment on what is exhibited there. There are several amazing professionals working with the printing equipment in the Museum of Industry, and Armina Ghazaryan is one of them.
If you were trying to reach iBookBinding via email recently, you'd find out that our main email address isn't accessible at the moment. We are trying to solve these technical issues and hope to gain access soon. At the moment, you can reach us at stepan@ibookbinding.info
Last week we discussed the destruction of books in art. But considering the recent news from the US, it seems reasonable to take one step further and dive into the topic of book burning.
In the second part of our talk with Kate Holland, we discussed education for bookbinders and the influence of art and craft on the economy. But most of the time we spend going around Kate's workshop and discussing tools, materials, and techniques.
A set of photos I've made at a flea market in Paris initiated a heated discussion. And no, not the photo from the preview. That's the work of Guy Laramée. What I found, was an object made with old wooden type and metal printing cliches.
We return to Tom McEwan to discuss the state of bookbinding in Scotland!
This time we return to our Booker Prize bindings series to discuss the binding of A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam which was created by Tom McEwan. Tom is an award-winning bookbinder and the first Scottish guest on our podcast.
