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!
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600 Years of the Turkish Tradition of Marbling
Artist Steve Pittelkow speaks about the history of marbling or Ebru, as it was invented by Turks some 600 years ago. This video also shows the main steps of the process and tools used for marbling.
Wooden Tools Are Returning to Our Store For a Limited Time!
This holiday season I will produce a limited quantity of bookbinding tools made with wood, plywood, and particleboard (the latter one I use for simple sewing frames.) And the 25% Black Friday discount is applicable to all these tools!
25% Black Friday Discounts at iBookBinding Until the 30th of November!
It's holiday season, and discounts are here! This year not only we have massively dropped prices for all the 3d-printed bookbinding tools and jigs, but for a limited time, we return our wooden tools: presses, rounding tools, and sewing frames!
Digitized Book of the Week: Objects of Art from the Museum Plantin-Moretus
The Plantin House in Antwerp holds a beautiful collection related to book history and history of printing. However, there are many more things there. Most of them have high historical and cultural value.
What Does it Take to Make the Thinnest Sheet of Paper?
Super thin paper made by Hidaka Washi Ltd. is used by museums and other institutions all over the world for conservation and restoration projects. But the technology of production dates back a thousand years.
Digitized Book of the Week: A Collection of 40 Music-Themed Ex Libris
I hope this week's digitized book would be a delight not only for book-lovers but also for the fans of classical music and music history. That's a catalog of 40 ex libris with musical instruments or related to music.
The Book as a Canvas: Deep Mapping with Accordion Books
When you start out in bookbinding, you usually use blank white paper. Your first, second, and maybe even your third book are all empty pages waiting to be filled. Now be honest with me: how many of you have ever actually written anything in those books?
10 Things That Terrify Archivists
I like when a serious issue is approached with a sense of humor. But it seems to me the list is not full. Non-reversible adhesives should be added to the list, along with self-made repairs, and some other nightmarish things. However, that may be more of conservator's peeves, not archivist's.
Digitized Book of the Week: Catalog of the Maurice Escoffier Collection for the Giraud-Badin Auction
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.
Hundreds of Antiquarian Booksellers Fight Amazon Subsidiary’s Recent Decision
Several weeks ago AbeBooks (owned by Amazon since 2008) announced to vendors from the Czech Republic, Hungary, South Korea, and Russia they wouldn't be welcome on this book selling platform starting the end of November
Boeken in de Bavo – The Annual Book Market in Haarlem
Went to Haarlem today for the annual book market - Boeken in de Bavo. The market itself is quite nice, 75 sellers (or something like that), quite a diverse choice of books. But what's makes this fair really special is the astonishing location!
Ken Sanders – Rare Books Seller and Stolen Books Detective
Ken Sanders tells his story of becoming a book detective while being a rare books seller for most of his life. One time he had to chase a book thief for three years to prepare the final sting and put him to jail.
Digitized Book of The Week: A Short Historical Sketch of the Art of Bookbinding by William L. Andrews
Here is the last digitized book of October. It's much smaller, and I wasn't initially considering it to be scanned at all. First, we already have it in our Book Collection; second, it is available at the Smithsonian Libraries digital archive.
Sorting My Bookish Book Collection
Spent yesterday's evening sorting the books about books I bought since moving to the Netherlands. It starts to look like an obsession. However, it's hard to stop when you have book markets like the one in the Hague just a half-hour ride away.
