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.
Every once in a while the Museum Meermanno in the Hague (The Netherlands) brings a new temporary exhibition. This time they show the works of Quentin Blake, an artist, who had illustrated multiple books, including stories by the world-famous author Roald Dahl.
Not about books at all. Just wanted to share the process of making this iBookBinding pumpkin. My first experience with carving ever. I decided to cheat a bit, so I used my projector to create a pattern that wouldn't be distorted by the curvature of the pumpkin.
This week's scanned book is the third volume of the catalog of the library of René Descamps-Scrive. Last week I posted some excerpts from the first two volumes of the same catalog.
While walking along the stalls at the book market in the Hague, I often find old diaries. I never thought I would have any use for any of them before I found this red hardcover journal.
Berlin Typography blog has launched a series of publications about umlauts this summer. They posted the third part just a few days ago. Now the collection may be considered complete (at least for the time being.)
Ross MacDonald has led a secret double life for many years. While he was writing humor pieces and making illustrations for periodicals, he was also making paper-related props for over 40 movies.
Just received my new member's welcoming package from the Stichting Handboekbinden - bookbinding guild of the Netherlands. I love every piece of it. In that small envelope, there are materials to make a small accordion book. And look at this small bonefolder!
Why Bookbinding Is the Best Hobby? Well, it’s the best hobby for me because I’m old and retired. Judging by the pictures in the iBookBinding newsletters, everyone else is thirty or forty years younger. What can an ancient amateur book-maker tell you?
For quite some time I've been looking for a new way to show gratitude to patrons of iBookBinding at Patreon.com. And several weeks ago I realized that I could share with them some books from my newly acquired collection.
We went to Belgium recently. Of course, I cannot miss anything related to books (especially old books). That's why when my wife and my grandfather went to see the Saint Bavo's Cathedral in Ghent, I spent an hour in the Saint Nicholas' Church. Where, as it appears, every second Saturday there is a book market.
This week I found several beautiful books, but these two are not only interesting to browse through, even while I don't read Dutch. They have quite impressive covers (and other elements), I wanted to share with you.
In 2013, I signed up for my first bookbinding course. It was a general interest course that ran for 3 hours every Tuesday evening for 11 weeks. It was kind of a whim—I just thought it sounded cool. What I didn't realize at the time was that this course wasn't just my introduction to bookbinding...
It was my dream for several years to visit the Bookbinders' Fair in Sint-Niklaas (Belguim), and this April the dream came true. I had my personal stall there and it was even better than I thought it would be.
I have extensively expanded my collection of books about books recently. One of the motives to do that was to scan and add them to the PDF Book Collection iBookBinding has been hosting for years. This collection you can get by subscribing to our newsletter.
