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Dexter-Style Conversion of an Apartment into a Workshop
My woodworking workshop/bookbinding studio is located in my mother’s apartment. She lives in Romania for the better part of a year, and I put the place to a good use for the remaining 10-11 months =)
3D-Printed Spine Rounding Tool
Last time I wrote something about 3d-printing bookbinding tools it was about corner cutting jigs, I’ve made for my bookbinding class with kids. And they’ve been on demand at my Etsy store since the publication. Today I’d like to share my experience with another sort of tools I’ve started printing recently.
Spine rounding tools are used to… round spines of covers when one is making case bound books. Alternatively, they may be used to form a rounded spine of a book block.
Get the Reprinted Edition of The Archaeology of Medieval Bookbinding by J.A. Szirmai!
If want to buy only one book on the practical history of the Medieval bookbinding, that has to be The Archaeology of Medieval Bookbinding by Janos Alexander Szirmai. And here is the good news: book was just reprinted by the Routledge academic publishing house. What’s even better, this time you can choose from hardcover, paperback or digital edition of the book!
How a 3,800-Year-Old Clay Tablet Teaches Us Trigonometry
This 3,800-year-old Babylonian clay tablet is supposed to be the oldest surviving trigonometric table. It is at least 1,000 years older than works of the Greek mathematician Pythagoras.
Collection of Book-Themed Postage Stamps
A few months ago I’ve bought some Romanian stamps to use them to illustrate one of the videos I’ve been making at the moment. That brought my attention to the subject of book-themed stamps. Over the past months my collection was growing steadily and I want to share my progress with you today.
A Question to Librarians – Cataloguing Software for a School Library
As some of you may know I work in a high school. Our new librarian wants to improve cataloguing system of the school’s library – the previous librarian has used some mix of paper catalog and Excel spreadsheets. The final inventory showed that she had done a very poor job.
Conserving Vulture Peak Series by the British Museum
This project is a bit out of our general scope. However, subject of cloth restoration and conservation in general and matters of working with silk in particular may be of interest to some of bookbinders.
Winners of the Designer Bookbinders International Bookbinding Competition 2017
This July results of the 3rd Designer Bookbinders International Bookbinding Competition were announced. Bookbinders from 34 countries decided to participate in the Competition and 28 prizewinners were chosen out of 184 entries.
Two Years with iBookBinding 2.0
It surprises me how fast these two years have passed since my wife and I have bought iBookBinding.com. So many things are done and even more things remain on different stages of planning and implementation. Its a great pleasure to work on that project and to have this connection with a passionate and diverse community of bookbinders from all over the world.
Goats, Bookworms, a Monk’s Kiss
“Every book has a biological story to tell. Pigment, DNA, proteins, microbes. Much more than what is written on the page. The big question is with Ancient books—rare and delicate objects—how do we access this buffet of boilogical clues, without damaging them?”
3D-Printed Corner Cutting Tool
This corner cutting jig wasn’t my first experience with 3d-printing tools for bookbinding. However, it was the first one to be practical and something that I really liked to use!
Please Help to Find a Bookbinding Souvenir in London
So, my wife is on a business trip to London this week. It is mostly 10-hour shifts of controlling marketing research projects, but she will have some free time on Friday and on the weekend. And I’d like her to bring me back some nice bookbinding souvenir!
Watch How the Old Books Are Restored Step by Step
There are many different steps involved in the book restoration process. Some of them are about doing something with the book, during others specialists are cataloging and preserving information about the book for future use and research.
5 Beautiful Bookbinding-Themed Facebook Accounts to Follow This July
This month we retutrn with a new collection of links to beautiful bookbinding-themed Facebook accounts.
