Tordo's bookbing dump

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[jars-artcollection]

Also look at some of these embroidery samples. And handmade lace.

[festeredhearts]

[thessala]

Unidentified artist, The Black Hours, Burges, 15th century, New York, Morgan Library & Museum, ms. M.493, f. 14v.-15r.

[encuaderneichon]

first succesful linocut/linoprint 😩

i finally caved in and bought the speedball ink roller. it works beautifully 😔

hopefully ill be able to start using it on my book covers soon.

[erikkwakkel]

Medieval book transport

You are looking at two ‘wraps’ (top), the outside and inside of a box (middle), and a leather satchel (bottom). What they share is not just their old age (they are all medieval), but also the purpose for which they were made: to transport a book from A to B. The actual reason for transporting books in these objects varied considerably. The wraps are late-medieval girdle books, which were hanged from the owner’s belt by the knot. The text inside - which was often of legal or religious nature - could be consulted quickly and easily: just unwrap it and read. The box (and the ninth-century book inside) had a more exotic use: the package functioned as a charm for good luck on the battlefield, where it was carried in front of the troops by a monk. The satchel, which also dates from the ninth century, was just a bag to transport a book while on the go - it was popular among monks. Read more about these fascinating devices in my blog post “Medieval Books on the Go” (here).  

Pics -  Wrap at top: Stockholm, Royal Library (16th century, source); Wrap below it: Yale, Beinecke Library, MS 84 (15th century, source); Box: Dublin, Royal, Irish Academy, D ii 3 (8th/9th century, source); Satchel: Dublin, Trinity, College, MS 52 (Book of Armagh, 9th century, source).

[encuaderneichon]

Making Books

a guide to creating hand-crafted books by the London Centre for Book Arts.

link to the full pdf.

[microraptorhours]

i love you archival work. i love you alphabetizing. i love you sorting. i love you reshelving. i love you document restoration. i love you shelf reading. i love you inventorying. i love you analysis. i love you archival work.

[encuaderneichon]

Interior Design Service

Bookbinding manuals - making simple equipment.

[encuaderneichon]

[ashenalchemy]

Swooning over this Sangorski and Sutcliffe binding http://paperdragonbooks.blogspot.com/2010/08/s-and-s-treaures.html

Sangorski and Sutcliffe binding

The history of those two is well known....if you dont know, they were two young guys who went to the Central school of arts and crafts (lat

[mary-maud]

Books in the reading room at Chatsworth, summer 2024

[stlartsupply]

I made this zine last year to teach Japanese stab binding. It's a technique that every artist should know—with just a few tools, it's so easy to bind your own sketchbook or to make a physical version of your art/writing/etc. Download the PDF version (with bonus photos & tips!)

[msulconservationlab]

This book has stuck on endbands that were sewn through a strip of manuscript waste before they were adhered to the spine. If you look closely, you can see some text. #manuscriptmonday #bookstagram #endbands (at MSU Libraries)

[eidolonhouse]

Love using my wife’s hand spun silk embroidery thread for end bands that look historically accurate to the 18th Century; the look and feel is perfect. I’ve been getting tired of commercial threads as they look and feel too much like plastic. #handmadeisbetter👌🏼 #bookbinding #handspunsilk #embroidery #endbands #bookhistory #rarebooks #collectibles #igbooks #eidolonhouse

[zhalfirin-binds]

French double core endband as described in Greenfield and Hille's 'Headbands: How to work them'

I'm not entirely sure I did them right. The endband I was introduced to as French double core a few years back had 2 cores, but somehow I ended up with 3. Despite leaving some room for improvement, I kind of like how it came out though and for the first (the other one is still waiting to be done) I'm happy. It worked way better than anticipated.

The start was a bit fiddly, but after a few tie downs it got better.

I used a 2 mm and a 1 mm leather string for cores and a 'working thread' (which is not what the thread being wrapped around the cores is called in the book, but a secret different thread that becomes the bead). Next time I go for a smoother thread though. The 2mm is a bit coarse and the silk catches on it. I guess that's why they usually use bâtonnets made from paper. They just don't have any rough parts for the thread to catch on.

Only the backside looks a bit like a mess, but then, no one is going to see that when I'm done.

[duran-binding]

I just realized I can put my YouTube videos on here. I made a tutorial! Check out my channel too cause there's edge decoration tutorials on there as well :)

[escapismsworld]

𝗧𝗛𝗢𝗦𝗘 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗘 𝗕𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦 𝗢𝗙 𝗠𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗘𝗩𝗔𝗟 𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞𝗦

In the Middle Ages, reading was not such a popular pastime: usually the only books read were those of a religious nature.

Given the lack of interest in reading, some bookbinders began to bind two books together, in such a way as to "save" volume and weight to the hypothetical readers.

It became quite common to bind two texts together such as the New Testament and the Book of Psalms in England in the first half of the 17th century.

The books were bound so that the leading edge of one was adjacent to the spine of the other.

The back cover was shared by being sandwiched between the two. By placing this book on a shelf, its spine was facing outward while that of the 'twin' was facing the inside of the shelf itself.

This odd binding style is known as dos-à-dos, a French word meaning "back-to-back."

Over time, this style was extended to more books, until we found real chains of seven volumes linked together.

Until the mid-twentieth century this way of binding books survived, then both the technique and the skills of the bookbinders, true artists of yesteryear, were lost.

Cre: SORS - Ricerche Speciali