Every month I add new blogs to my feed. It is really inspiring to see all these fine people writing about bookbinding and book conservation tricks, their projects and thoughts. At the same moment, it becomes harder to filter links for our monthly digest — there is just too much I’d like to share with you!
My wife and I are having a weekend getaway to Armenia just in a few days.
Oh, wow! This is some lightning-fast bookbinder’s work!
I just would be glad to see the same process in a higher resolution…
Last Saturday was the first day of a new series of bookbinding workshops I’m teaching at. This was an absolutely new experience for me because almost all the students are kids. 6 years old and up.
For quite a long time we’ve been playing with the idea of a regularly held Q&A here at iBookBinding.com. Or, to be more exact, at our YouTube channel.
This wonderful and inspiring video, featuring Eliza Gilligan, a book conservator at the University of Virginia, is reach with an old book’s details and close-ups. A real pleasure to watch. As a bonus: some insights into how a conservator works and thinks.
We wanter to give you a friendly reminder about the 2017 Education and Training Conference by the Society or Bookbinders. Book your place before June 15th to avoid the late booking fee. Both national and regional bursaries are available (you should send your application before April 30th).
Since I’ve started adding woodworking power tools to my bookbinding workshop, I wanted to try one thing. Okay, there were many things that became possible since that moment, but that one was special.
This series of posts already starts to look like a nice collection of wonderful and inspiring Facebook accounts related to bookbinding. We have enough to share with you at least until the end of the year. However, what’s even better, the list is constantly growing!
I’m a bit late this month. Having a holiday week (yes, I have a day job at school) and a vacation week one following the other didn’t mean I had more time to lie on my couch. I rather had more things to do at my workshop and less chance to prepare anything for iBookBinding.
Below is a rather short video. However, I’m always happy to see other bookbinder’s workshop and work processes. There always may be some small things you can learn.
I am invited to different events quite regularly to entertain visitors (kids and adults) and teach them some simple bookbinding. This was exactly why yesterday I was at the Shalom Moscow festival.
It is very enlightening to watch narrator to follow the same steps a professional hanji paper maker has done just a few seconds before. That gives you a chance to appreciate how hard is the work even if it looks simple when done by a master.
During my stay in Romania this January I’ve started to make a short video about the first Romanian printed book. It is pretty hard to find any illustrations or photos that are allowed to be used in a blog post (due to copyright limitations and stuff). That’s why I’ve decided to check some alternative sources. I visited a couple of state-owned stamp dealers in Bucharest and was lucky to buy one of the stamps dedicated to the 500th anniversary of the first printed book.
Here is a short video of a painstaking process of page restoration of a book first made in 1725. The video is posted by the Municipal Archive of Loulé (that’s a city and municipality in Faro District, Portugal).
