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A blog for creative types interested in the (un)conventional world of Book Arts! Posts here will feature artist's books, illustration, book binding, typography, sketch-booking, scrap-booking, print-making, paper making, altered books, how to guides, zines, paper engineering and more! Feel free to submit your own work, thoughts around the subject, or even just inspiration new and old.
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NotesFrom the Archives
An early version of Facebook? Check out this interesting and helpful employee directory from the 1970s!
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The Great Diary Project has been set up to provide a permanent home for unwanted diaries of any date or kind. The collection now contains over 2000 diaries, and is adding to this resource as extensively as possible. Once part of the collection, all diaries are housed according to up-to-date conservation standards. All diaries will be catalogued for the Project database, the contents of which will be made freely available to researchers and interested readers, who can consult the originals in Bishopsgate Institute reading room in London. Both Stephen Fry and Boris Johnson are patrons of the ever-expanding project, and anyone who has old or unwanted diaries can be sure that the Institute will take them in gratefully and look after them.
Diaries are among our most precious items of heritage. People in all walks of life have confided and often still confide their thoughts and experiences to the written page, and the result is a unique record of what happens to an individual over months, or even years, as seen through their eyes. No other kind of document offers such a wealth of information about daily life and the ups and downs of human existence. The Project’s idea is to collect as many diaries as possible from now on for long-term preservation. In the future they will be a precious indication of what life, in our own time, was really like.
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Has your cat ever walked across your keyboard? Well, it’s not a new problem. Medieval book historian Erik Kwakkel recently Tweeted this photo of a 15th century book with… you guessed it… cat paw prints in ink on the pages! We’re part of a long and glorious historical movement, friends. (Source: Dr. Marty Becker)
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London readers continue to browse at a bombed-out library, WWII.
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NotesScience and art have more in common than you might think. Here, lasers (!) are used to study pigment particles in illuminated manuscripts.
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NotesFound: World’s Oldest Message in a Bottle, Part of 1914 Citizen-Science Experiment
A Scottish fisherman has found the world’s oldest message in a bottle, the Guinness Book of World Records confirmed last week. It is 98 years old, and was cast into the ocean by Captain C.H. Hunter, a scientist at the Glasgow School of Navigation, who was studying the currents in the North Sea.
The bottle was one of 1,890 bottles released on June 10, 1914, and the 315th to be entered into Captain Brown’s log, which is still kept and updated by Marine Scotland Science in Aberdeen.
Read more. [Images: AP]
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Book that Came Across the Atlantic Ocean in 1847, along with my Ancestors (by Delina)
“Several of my ancestors practiced their handwriting, letters and numbers in this book of poetry written about 1827. The book is pretty crumbly, but I love having it. I can picture the long voyage with boredom setting in and not much to write on or write with, for that matter. My file name says clover, but I am thinking it is a shamrock pressed in the pages.
The book was given to me by an eccentric uncle of mine in about 1978 or so, when my children and I lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The book face page said it was written at the Dawn of the Reformation in Ireland. I checked around, and was told that would be about 1827. So the book was about 150 years old when I got it, and about 20 years old when children wrote in it. There were two children who belonged to my direct lineage, and then five of their first cousins with them, who had been orphaned. Imagine taking 7 children across the ocean on about a 3 month voyage. My direct ancestors are the couple that brought the 7 children over from Ireland, via Liverpool, England, to New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, and then up the Mississippi River to the area of Rockport and Preemption, Mercer County, Illinois, USA.. They were very brave or very desperate or both.”
That is indeed a shamrock, the symbol of Ireland :)
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NotesHis list of favorite poets includes “myself” and his favorite occupation is “reading my own sonnets”.
Oh Oscar.
(Source: lord-dandy)
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NotesJane Austen’s handwritten manuscript of Persuasion
(Source: bookshavepores)
