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What to do with all the books in our personal [professional and reference] libraries???
Here is the second of the two "manuals" introducing bookbinding to school children. Buchbinden introduces the single-section pamphlet in a wrapper, and what is referred to in North America, Bradel binding.
https://pressbengel.blogspot.com/2023/02/bookbinding-as-school-subject.html
Just received two more "manuals" introducing bookbinding subjects to school children. These two are both parts of the Technische Jugend Bücherei (Technical Library for Youths). The first pamphlet Papparbeit (No. 17) covers the subject of paper crafts such as desk accessories, calendars, boxes, ... Both were published in 1926. Here the cover and title page from Papparbeit. More images at https://pressbengel.blogspot.com/2023/02/book-crafts-as-school-subject.html.
Lunch with the @mselibrary: 3D Printing in Book Conservation
Senior book conservator Alessandro Scola shares his innovative experiments with 3D printing for rare book displays and supports.
https://events.jhu.edu/form/lunch-with-the-libraries-3DPrinting
Decorated Paper: A Selection of Publications in Watson Library
Learn about decorated paper methods, such as paste paper; the many methods of marbling at https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2023/decorated-paper
Oh, no. Tom Phillips' Dante's Inferno was one of the first fine bindings I completed. Also love his Humument. An amazing artist.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/nov/29/tom-phillips-obituary
The concept of rebinding old, or even new books is not novel. One of Hermann Nitz's innovations was the Kombinationseinband, that combined machine sewing with simplified forwarding that gave the appearance of an extra binding at lower cost, and without sacrificing quality. It was first described in this pamphlet Über einen neuen Einband-Typ published by Spamer in 1923.
https://pressbengel.blogspot.com/2016/01/hermann-nitzs-kombinationseinband-ur.html
"Fancied-up" books. I don't like rebinding trade books for any number of reasons - bad design, boring paper, signatures (if extant) too fat, perfect bound... However, it is an established part of the trade. In the past two years I've (re)bound just those kinds of books as presentation bindings to their authors who were retiring as faculty. These are fun, if at times conceptually challenging.
More at
https://pressbengel.blogspot.com/2012/11/fancied-up-books.html
Also here: https://henryhebert.net/2012/08/28/how-to-fancy-up-a-book/
New here, so time for an introduction... I'm a bookbinder, conservator, librarian by training who also enjoys b/w film photography and model railroading. Often, I even combine these interests and skills into one. Links in my profile lead to more.
