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2017.09.01 - 3d-Printed Rounding Tool for Bookbinding 01

3D-Printed Spine Rounding Tool

September 1, 2017

Last time I wrote something about 3d-printing bookbinding tools it was about corner cutting jigs, I’ve made for my bookbinding class with kids. And they’ve been on demand at my Etsy store since the publication. Today I’d like to share my experience with another sort of tools I’ve started printing recently.

Spine rounding tools are used to… round spines of covers when one is making case bound books. Alternatively, they may be used to form a rounded spine of a book block. Continue reading →

Get the Reprinted Edition of The Archaeology of Medieval Bookbinding by J.A. Szirmai!

August 30, 2017

If want to buy only one book on the practical history of the Medieval bookbinding, that has to be The Archaeology of Medieval Bookbinding by Janos Alexander Szirmai. And here is the good news: book was just reprinted by the Routledge academic publishing house. What’s even better, this time you can choose from hardcover, paperback or digital edition of the book! Continue reading →

2017.08.25 - Mathematical secrets of ancient tablet unlocked after nearly a century of study

How a 3,800-Year-Old Clay Tablet Teaches Us Trigonometry

August 28, 2017

This 3,800-year-old Babylonian clay tablet is supposed to be the oldest surviving trigonometric table. It is at least 1,000 years older than works of the Greek mathematician Pythagoras. Continue reading →

Collection of Book-Themed Postage Stamps

August 24, 2017

A few months ago I’ve bought some Romanian stamps to use them to illustrate one of the videos I’ve been making at the moment. That brought my attention to the subject of book-themed stamps. Over the past months my collection was growing steadily and I want to share my progress with you today. Continue reading →

A Question to Librarians – Cataloguing Software for a School Library

August 23, 2017

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 →

Conserving Vulture Peak Series by the British Museum

August 22, 2017

This project is a bit out of our general scope. However, subject of cloth restoration and conservation in general and matters of working with silk in particular may be of interest to some of bookbinders. Continue reading →

2017.08.18 - Designer Bookbinders International Competition 2017 - Andrea Odametey - Daedelus and Icarus

Winners of the Designer Bookbinders International Bookbinding Competition 2017

August 18, 2017

This July results of the 3^rd 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 →

Two Years with iBookBinding 2.0

August 11, 2017

It surprises me how fast these two years have passed since my wife and I have bought iBookBinding.com. So many things are done and even more things remain on different stages of planning and implementation. Its a great pleasure to work on that project and to have this connection with a passionate and diverse community of bookbinders from all over the world. Continue reading →

Goats, Bookworms, a Monk’s Kiss

August 8, 2017

“Every book has a biological story to tell. Pigment, DNA, proteins, microbes. Much more than what is written on the page. The big question is with Ancient books—rare and delicate objects—how do we access this buffet of boilogical clues, without damaging them?” Continue reading →

3D-Printed Corner Cutting Tool

August 2, 2017

This corner cutting jig wasn’t my first experience with 3d-printing tools for bookbinding. However, it was the first one to be practical and something that I really liked to use! Continue reading →

2017.07.24 - Finding a Bookbinding Souvenir in London

Please Help to Find a Bookbinding Souvenir in London

July 26, 2017

So, my wife is on a business trip to London this week. It is mostly 10-hour shifts of controlling marketing research projects, but she will have some free time on Friday and on the weekend. And I’d like her to bring me back some nice bookbinding souvenir! Continue reading →

Watch How the Old Books Are Restored Step by Step

July 24, 2017

There are many different steps involved in the book restoration process. Some of them are about doing something with the book, during others specialists are cataloging and preserving information about the book for future use and research. Continue reading →

2017.07.21 - Beautiful Bookbinding on Facebook

5 Beautiful Bookbinding-Themed Facebook Accounts to Follow This July

July 21, 2017

This month we retutrn with a new collection of links to beautiful bookbinding-themed Facebook accounts. Continue reading →

Medical Recipe Attributed to Hippocrates Found in Palimpsest from the St Catherine’s Monastery Collection

July 12, 2017

For quite a long time writing materials were a very expensive thing. It is not surprising that Mediaeval scholars were looking for some ways to cut the costs or recycle the materials. That’s how palimpsests were introduced. Often the old not-so-important texts were scraped or washed off from the leather (or papyrus) pages to allow for the new texts to be written over. This time the unimportant text of the medical recipe book attributed to Hippocrates was replaced by a layer of Bible text known as the “Sinaitic manuscript”. Continue reading →

Medieval Knights Fighting Snails

July 11, 2017

Illuminated manuscripts have lots of different creatures depicted on the margins. Some of them are real, others are not. One would be ready to find a knight fighting a dragon on the margins of a Medieval book. Knight fighting a snail? That’s some else! Continue reading →

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