Going to Copenhagen This Weekend
I would appreciate any advice on nice bookish places in Copenhagen to visit this weekend. I'm not sure we'll have a lot of spare time, but if there's a free moment, I'd like to be prepared!
I would appreciate any advice on nice bookish places in Copenhagen to visit this weekend. I'm not sure we'll have a lot of spare time, but if there's a free moment, I'd like to be prepared!
As some of you may know I work in a high school. Our new librarian wants to improve cataloguing system of the school’s library – the previous librarian has used some mix of paper catalog and Excel spreadsheets. The final inventory showed that she had done a very poor job. Continue reading →
This fantastic video documents the work of Siuyuett Tsang (Teresa Tsang) during a bookbinding project.
Directed by Calvin Li and filmed by Kenji Wong the movie takes you through the various aspects of creating a book from scratch, including, in various degrees of detail, the following steps:
The documentary has been edited down to 5 minutes in duration from a total of 10+ hours of footage taken over 2 days.
We have a pretty thorough list of tutorials and bookbinding instructions here at iBookBinding.com. At least if you are interested in case binding and some non-adhesive types of bindings. Today we start posting new tutorials. Sometimes they would cover some very small steps of bookbinding process. Continue reading →
Every once in a while the Museum Meermanno in the Hague (The Netherlands) brings a new temporary exhibition. This time they show the works of Quentin Blake, an artist, who had illustrated multiple books, including stories by the world-famous author Roald Dahl.
I’ve decided to open the gates of iBookBinding to the book arts community and for a limited time, on a trial basis I will be accept guest posts from our readership. If you are a bookbinder, work in the book arts field or simply have a passion or interest for bookbinding and fancy writing a piece for iBookBinding, then this could be a great opportunity for you… Continue reading →
The Society of Bookbinders will be holding its Twenty-first Education and Training Conference from August 3rd – 6th 2017 at Keele University, Staffordshire, UK. Keele is a modern university set in parkland with the historic Keele Hall at its centre, and is easily accessible by road (M6), rail (Stoke-on-Trent or Crewe) and air (Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool). Continue reading →
We return with five more Facebook accounts worth following if you are a book lover or bookbinder. Continue reading →
This month we retutrn with a new collection of links to beautiful bookbinding-themed Facebook accounts. Continue reading →
Why Bookbinding Is the Best Hobby? Well, it’s the best hobby for me because I’m old and retired. Judging by the pictures in the iBookBinding newsletters, everyone else is thirty or forty years younger. What can an ancient amateur book-maker tell you?
This July results of the 3rd Designer Bookbinders International Bookbinding Competition were announced. Bookbinders from 34 countries decided to participate in the Competition and 28 prizewinners were chosen out of 184 entries. Continue reading →
Professor Escoffier had a particular fondness for the Romanticism and, along with these activities, his passion for books led him to open a bookstore of old books The House of the bibliophile ("La Maison du bibliophile") in 1922.
…himself, or of the individual who has the pleasure of applying his strength to turning the handle. I never pass or hear a rolling machine revolving very rapidly without having vividly brought to my mind a very serious accident that happened to my father. He was feeling for a flaw on one of the rollers, and whilst his hands were at the edge of the rollers the man turned the handle, drawing the whole hand between the cylinders. The accident cost him many months in the hospital, and he never regained complete use of his right hand. Great care must be used not to pass too many sheets through the machine at one time; the same applies to the regulating screw. The amount of damage that can be done to the paper by too heavy a pressure is astonishing, as the paper becomes quite brittle, and many perhaps even be cut as with a knife. Continue reading →
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.
This interview is a part of a series produced by Anna Markova, book bindings' historian and rare book librarian at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow.) The series is dedicated to book artisans of different kinds.