Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild

GAIL STEVENS Transform Accordion-style book of Stonehenge paper panels adhered to Japanese paper. Quotations from Rainer Maria Rilke and Mary Oliver. Cover of h...andmade St. Armand paper. Fastened with ma net. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Livre style accordéon fait de panneaux de papier Stonehenge collés à du papier japon. Citations de Rainer Maria Rilke et de Mary Oliver. Couverture faite à la main de papier St. Armand. Attaché à l’aide d’un aimant. See more

LORNA MULLIGAN A View from the Treetops Flexible cover, exposed binding. Excerpt from Henry David Thoreau’s Walking in Gothicized Italic with sumi ink. Arches... Text Wove pages with collage of Nepalese and washi papers. Branches, needles, and roots inked using pine branches and a steel brush pen nib. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Couverture souple, reliure visible. Extrait de Walking de Henry David Thoreau en italiques gothiques avec de l’encre sumi. Pages en vélin d’Arches Text Wove avec collage de papiers népalais et washi. Branches, aiguilles et racines encrées utilisant des branches de pin et une pointe de crayon style brosse en acier. See more

CHRISTIANE LENZ Heart Sutra Pamphlet binding with watercolour washes, sumi and metallic ink, graphite, collage on hot press Fabriano Artistico paper. ----------...----------------------------------------------------------- Reliure style brochure à lavis d’aquarelle, encres sumi et métallique, graphite, collage sur papier pressé à chaud Fabriano Artistico. See more

LILY YEE-SLOAN Book Marks Sumi ink, walnut ink, opaque watercolour, gesso, and wax crayon on Arches black cover and 140 lb. watercolour paper. Traditional and n...on-traditional calligraphy tools, including a fine-tipped squeeze bottle. Ingres endpapers. -------------------------------------------------------- Encre sumi, encre brous de noix, aquarelle opaque, gesso et crayon de cire sur vélin d’Arches noir et papier aquarelle 140 lb. Outils de calligraphie traditionnels et non-traditionnels, y compris une bouteille en plastique souple à la pointe fine. Papiers de garde Ingres See more

KRISTINA KOMENDANT The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Case binding, pigskin leather spine. Linen thread. Endpapers with hand-painted and printed maple... leaves. Waterford and Arches 90 lb. papers. Italic and Uncial calligraphy. Fount India ink, gold, and coloured gouache. ------------------------------------------------------------ Emboîtage, dos en peau de porc. Fil de lin. Pages de garde aux feuilles d’érable peintes et imprimées à la main. Papiers Waterford et Arches 90 lb. Calligraphie italique et onciale. Encre de Chine Fount, or et gouache colorée. See more

4,000-Year-Old Guide to the Ancient Egyptian Underworld May Be Oldest Illustrated ‘Book’ - Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com//4000-year-old-guide-anci/

Using a Schärffix for Leather Paring : Adventures in Bookbinding - A video by DAS Bookbinding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xCZIpEbZxc

LORRAINE DOUGLAS Threshold Paste paper covers and collages with metallic thread. Poem by Denise Levertov. Gouache calligraphy on Arches Text Wove. ------------...------------------------------------------------- Couvertures en papier marbré à la pâte et collages faits avec fil métallique. Poème de Denise Levertov. Calligraphie à la gouache sur Arches Text Wove. See more

LORRAINE DOUGLAS Skye Boat Song Gouache calligraphy, embossing, paste papers on BFK Rives and Somerset papers. -------------------------------------------------...------------ Calligraphie à la gouache, gaufrage, papiers marbrés à la pâte sur papiers BFK Rives et Somerset. See more

Art of the Book is back on the Road! From October 17 to November 14 Art of the Book will be at Andrew & Laura McCain Art Gallery, Florenceville-Bristol New Brunswick http://mccainartgallery.com/

A Brief History of the Book in China Artist: RHONDA MILLER Chinese butterfly binding. Moriki kozo cover, marbled using traditional Japanese suminigashi techniqu...e. Ink ground from an indigo ink stick. Original text, inkjet printed on Hosokawa paper. ----------------------------------------------------- Reliure papillon chinoise. Couverture Moriki kozo, marbrée utilisant la technique traditionnelle japonaise suminigashi. Encre broyée d’un bâtonnet d’encre indigo. Texte original, impression jet d’encre sur papier Hosokawa. See more

Uncut, unopened, untrimmed, uh-oh! What is the difference between these words. https://collation.folger.edu//uncut-unopened-untrimmed-u/

What is Paste Paper and How to Make it // Adventures in Bookbinding - DAS Bookbinding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKqvddv9ico&t=1s

Tree Poems Artist: MARTINA EDMONDSON Pamphlet binding. Poems by artist. Small twigs, stone, glass, and bone with metal clasp closure. Eco (botanical contact) an...d rust printing, and incense burns on Taiwanese rice paper and watercolour papers. --------------------------------------------------------- Reliure style brochure. Poèmes par l’artiste. Petites brindilles, pierre, verre et os avec fermoir métallique. Impression éco utilisant contact botanique, rouille et brûlures d’encens sur papier de riz taïwanais et papier pour aquarelle See more

After Thought Artist: CHRISTINE TRAINOR A bookwork in six gatherings of handmade flax paper, printed text, and illustrations. Sewn with linen thread. ----------...-------------------------------------------------- Un livre d’art en six cahiers de papier à base de lin fait main, texte imprimé et illustrations. Cousu avec fil de lin. See more

4,000-Year-Old Guide to the Ancient Egyptian Underworld May Be Oldest Illustrated ‘Book’ https://www.smithsonianmag.com//4000-year-old-guide-anci/

The Irish Donkey Artist: HELEN O’CONNOR Three-quarter leather, embossed, hardcover binding. Paper from flax, hemp, willow, cotton and kozo fibres, and linen rag..., beaten by hand or by Hollander beater. Linen thread. Pen and ink text. Rubber stamping. ------------------------------------------------------------- Reliure rigide trois-quarts à coins, cuir, gaufré. Papier à base de lin, chanvre, saule, coton et fibres de kozo, et chiffon de lin, battu à la main ou par pile hollandaise. Fil de lin. Texte dessiné à la plume. Décoré avec un tampon en caoutchouc. See more

Linocut carving and printing - short film by Maarit Hänninen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dVtAn3mlOs

Plants & Pigments Swatchbook Artist: FRANCES HUNTER Cover of paper-covered board lined with gouachemarbled kozo. Handmade paper swatches. Swatch list: Chartham ...inkjet paper. Numbers blindembossed behind each sample. Chicago screw. -------------------------------------------------- Couverture de carton recouvert de papier doublé de kozo marbré à la gouache. Échantillons de papier fait main. Liste d’échantillons : papier jet d’encre Chartham. Numéros estampés à l’aveugle derrière chaque échantillon. Vis Chicago. See more

The Oldest American Picture Book Still in Print is Obviously About Cats Of course it is! https://lithub.com/the-oldest-american-picture-book-still/

Pleasures and Treasures Artist: FLORA SHUM Custom box with screen printed book cloth, Uwa senka paper, and ribbon. Eight Made in China logos from Toronto’s Ch...inatown tourist shops used to create watermarks on handmade cotton rag paper, and juxtaposed with Canadian branding. Text: screen printed with acrylic inks. -------------------------------------------------- Boîte faite sur mesure avec toile sérigraphiée, papier Uwa senka et ruban. Huit logos Made in China provenant des boutiques touristiques du quartier chinoise de Toronto sont utilisés pour créer des filigranes sur du papier de chiffon de coton fait main. Texte sérigraphié avec encres acryliques. See more

Got a love the 90's! "At the public library" 54 Citywatch San Francisco's public library TV show! In this episode: 19th Century Bookbinding at the San Francisco Public Library https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr7cp6n3WnI

Archivist and bookseller plead guilty to pilfering $8M in rare texts from Carnegie Library -- Washington Post, Jan 14, 2020 https://www.washingtonpost.com//carnegie-library-book-th/

The Whispers Collection by Stopan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSbHPI4rkqU

VIA, Eastbound Artist: FRANCES HUNTER Cloth-hinged hardcover binding. Don McKay poem on St. Armand 100% linen rag paper. Handmade cotton/abaca paper with silve...r lustre pigment. Letterpress printed by Black Stone Press. Images printed digitally. Foil stamping by Winfield Printing --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reliure rigide à charnières en toile. Poème de Don McKay sur papier-chiffon St. Armand 100% lin. Papier coton/abaca fait main avec pigment argenté. Typographie par Black Stone Press. Impression numérique des images. Estampage à chaud par Winfield Printing. See more

The Surprising Practice of Binding Old Books With Scraps of Even Older Books For centuries, bookbinders commonly used whatever materials they could getincluding entire manuscript pages. https://www.atlasobscura.com/art/book-waste-printed-garbage

Chris Rowlatt, Bookbinder & Paper Marbler, shows us the craft of marbling paper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWq1xkvAfdY

How Typography Determines Readability: Serif vs. Sans Serif https://www.freecodecamp.org//how-typography-determines-/

Ghosts Lest We Forget Artist: TROY MOORE Drum leaf binding cased in hand-decorated book cloth. Collaged with hand-illustrated, digital, and reverse transfer ...images, and incorporating found objects, acrylic inks and paints, stamps, and stencils. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Reliure à dos ouvert drum leaf enveloppée de toile décorée à la main. Collage avec images dessinées à la main, numériques et inversées, et incorporant objets trouvés, encres et peintures acryliques, estampage et pochoirs. See more

Here is how to make Lino Prints out of scrap paper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpx1VBtn3S8

New App Lets You Hear Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales in Original 14th-Century English https://www.mentalfloss.com//geoffrey-chaucer-canterbury-t