Trimming a Book With a Router
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.
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5 Beautiful Bookbinding-Themed Facebook Accounts to Follow This April
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!
Bookbinding Posts You Shouldn’t Have Missed this March
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.
Binding a Book, the Old-Fashioned Way
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.
Teaching Bookbinding in Just One Hour (or Even Less)
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.
Massive Update at Our Bookbinding Tools Shop
These past days I’ve been working hard fulfilling some orders and adding new things to our shop. Several of my students asked me to make 2-in-1 book presses (with sewing frames included). I wanted to add this tool to the shop for quite a long time and here was an opportunity to finally make them and take some photos.
Korean Hanji Paper Making
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.
Studying Gold Tooling – Third Lesson
This Sunday I had a third gold tooling class at my workshop. Once again I wasn’t a teacher, but a student. I’m really glad I had a chance to arrange this series of lessons at my studio and join them to learn something new.
Book History in Postage Stamps
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.
Restoring Pages of a 300 Year Old 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).
Busy Days at Workshop and a Bit of Self-Analysis
These past weeks I was quite busy crafting bookbinding tools at my workshop. Spending two days working with power tools may not sound as a heavy agenda, but I still have a day job, and iBookBinding needs constant updates.
5 Ways to Remove Cigarette Smell from Books
Recently one of my students asked me how to remove cigarette smell from books. I’m quite lucky not to have faced that problem ever in my life. My close relatives and I do not smoke, and I never bought any second hand things that needed deodorizing.
Cutting Edge Artwork of Eric Standley
Eric Standley combines in his work traditions of book sculpting, modern laser-cutting technologies and graphic design to create astonishing three-dimensional structures.
Melting Down Beeswax
I’ve just received a new batch of beeswax from my supplier. Yesterday was dedicated to melting and re-melting all that stuff to make it cleaner.
Bookbinding Posts You Shouldn’t Have Missed this February
Last month’s digest of bookbinding, book arts, book history and book conservation posts was quite popular and we have decided to try establishing a new series of posts at iBookBinding.
