The second season of Game of Thrones is much more bookish if you are counting the number of scenes where books and other literary objects are seen or used. However, the general style of many of these volumes remains the same: steampunk.
My wife had a business trip to the French town of Grasse. I came along to spend a weekend here and used this opportunity to visit an old books shop there.
Right opposite the entrance to our quarter in Leiden there's an old books shop. In the window passers by can see lots of book-earrings with marbled covers.
I'll have some spare time this Thursday evening and almost the whole Friday. We'll be driving around the area over the weekend, so some other recommendations would be also appreciated.
I first conceived the idea of writing a post about the book as an object in the fictional world of Game of Thrones TV series when the creators showed us the Library of the Citadel. But now this initial plan evolved into something bigger.
Well, this needs an explanation. So I will proceed in the clockwise order. I've got the small weights on twelve hours from an old bookbinder's collection back in Russia. They are 285 and 645 grams. Next comes my bike chain...
Every time I visit a bookbinder's studio, I try to look for some ideas on how to improve my personal working space. So, that time when I visited Elbel Libro was not an exception. And what a wonderful workbench Ben has!
I had this blender since I don't know when! Was it a wedding gift? I'm not sure. But it didn't survive today's attempt on making some more recycled paper. It overheated, and one of the moving parts broke.
Adelene Koh is one of the winners of the first Open•Set Competition; she also received a Highly Commended Certificate of the Designer Bookbinders’ Bookbinding Competition for two years in a row in 2014 & 2015.
Following some simple tutorials, you may still have enough time to create a heart-shaped book today. However, these books are not a modern invention. And some of them required a lot of effort and skill invested to be made.
Nowadays when people talk about communication security, they usually mean computer encryption. The thing about being a bookbinder, though, is that you tend to have a fondness for outdated technology. And before the internet, tracking numbers, and self-sealing envelopes, there was letterlocking.
I'm a bit disturbed by the titles like "The last traditional papermaker," or "The last bookbinder of New York." These titles are misleading and untrue. However, that's how the video is headlined. Nevertheless, it is kind and makes us to think about our modern world.
Recent data from the Bookseller Association reveals that after 20 years of decline, the number of independent bookstores is on the rise again.
Pop-up books are something that makes my mind spin. I never tried making one, and even while I understand some of the underlying three-dimensional geometry, I still can't stop holding breath when seeing some new examples of the craft.
It's that day today. The fourth Wednesday of January is the #libraryshelfieday. Libraries from all over the world post shelfies of their collections. We gathered some of the photos in this post.
