Time for the big news! On the 1st of April, Stepan and his wife Sofya are moving to France. And that's not some April Fool's Day thing. This, of course, means that iBookBinding is also moving to France =)
Hong Kong printmakers quietly documented everyday life in the city for decades. Juxtaposed with printmaking through the decades and into the 21st century, their work is now the subject of two ongoing exhibitions at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum
To give our community more opportunities to learn something about book arts and book history, we decided to open the part of our digitized collection that before was shared only with our patrons.
Our time in the Netherlands is coming to an end. We moved here two years ago when my wife was transferred to work in the global office of her company. And we knew that the next move will happen sometime in the future.
Dame Judi Dench, actress and the president of the Brontë Society, supported the Society's call to crowdfund the institution's bid for the second issue of Charlotte Brontë’s Young Men's Magazine at an auction in November.
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As we wrote almost a month ago, we have lots of plans to write more about different bookbinding techniques not only in English but in other languages. First posts in Russian have already appeared on our web site (hope the community wasn’t startled). We would also proceed with translating the old posts.
On this day, 24th of August, 1456, Johannes Gutenberg finished making the first book in Europe using movable type. Quires were printed in 1455 (or even before). There is a letter by Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini (future pope Pie II) dated 12 March 1455, that suggests that pages were already printed.
A little more than 24 hours left to bid on 204 lots of bookbinding tools and equipment sold by Bindery Tools, LLC (Myerstown, PA). I myself like some of the items, but delivery overseas would cost more than tools themselves.
Artist Raul Lemesoff has taken to the road in his latest creations “Arma de Instruccion Masiva” (Weapon of mass instruction) to help spread information and knowledge in the battle of ignorance.
A large book binding scam has been bought to light in New Delhi, India involving the Municipal Corporation who supplies textbooks to school libraries. The Municipal Corporation made huge profits by charging extortionate rates for hardcover bookbinding. Over 1,200 schools now face a delay in receiving books.
