Today iBookBinding continues to publish replies to the recent posts Bookbinders and Money: Inner Conflict and “Basic Binding” and “Basic Book Repair” Prices by bookbinders from all over the world. Below you can find a reply from Diana Avelar Pires, book and paper conservator from Lisbon, Portugal.
Last week iBookBinding was reached by Haein Song, a bookbinder from London, UK. She had a poor experience dealing with Omnia Libris — a carpentry service from Athens, Greece, that offers different bookbinding equipment.
During my recent visit to the Book Museum, here in Moscow, I’ve made a photo of a 1000-book library, exposed there. That’s just a small part of a much larger collection that was donated to the Russian State Library (it had another name at the moment) decades ago.
This year there are some new entrants in our Black Friday Sale list. There’s a choice of bookbinding equipment, supplies and products offered with a discounted price this weekend. Hope you’ll find what you are looking for below.
I’ve organized a visit to Moscow’s Book Museum for a group of bookbinders and book lovers yesterday. Some of the things our guide told us weren’t new for me. However, I can’t say I came out of the museum without picking something up.
From today and until the end of Cyber Monday I’m offering a 30% discount on all bookbinding equipment I sell at my Bonefolder.Club Etsy store. To get the discount use the code: YL7CH
The first reply to my post Bookbinders and Money: Inner Conflict came from Portugal. Here is a second one, from a British bookbinder and second hand book seller John Lewis.
Watch a video of David Frazer printing “passing storm” on the old Columbian.
I’ve received some interesting feedback on my recent post about the relationship of bookbinders and money. Today I’m posting a reply that came from António Campos Soares, a Portuguese bookbinder from Vila Nova de Famalicão in the north of the country.
Right after the Designer Bookbinders awards were announced last Friday we were able to ask winner of the 1st prize of the Folio Society Prize for the Set Book Glenn Malkin a few questions.
Designer Bookbinders is a prominent society devoted to development of the bookbinding craft. Every year The Bookbinding Competition takes place. This year’s Competition results were announced last Friday, November 11th.
In celebration of Archives Month Smithsonian Institution Archives has posted two videos showing how old and sometimes fragile books are being digitized to allow wider public to access them on the web site.
I’ve decided to make a follow up to the previous post. I wrote that sometimes it is hard for me to set a “fair price” on my bookbinding and book repair work, while I understand that bookbinding is a very special sort of work that shouldn’t be undervalued.
A recent discussion at the Facebook account of Huhu Hu (a bookbinder from Quzhou, China) has made me to analyze myself and to think about how I interact with my clients. It all started as a call for a bit of advice on repairs and restoration of a cloth-covered book (you should probably read that too), but soon we were talking about the rates and prices for bookbinding services.
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