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All Blog Posts Tagged 'bookbinding' (11)

Bookbinding Etsy Street Team Back to School Sale

Woo! One of the Etsy Teams I belong to is BEST: the Bookbinding Etsy Street Team, and this week--Sept 1 to 7--we're having a sale. I'm offering free worldwide shipping, plus if you buy two or more items, you get a free Dawson Printshop wood type letterpress calendar. Here are all the shops participating in the sale:

Anticovalore: free world wide Shipping

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Added by Nicole Silvester on September 4, 2009 at 2:10am — No Comments

Bookbinding Word Find

I just posted a bookbinding-themed word find at Handmade News. Word finds are harder to make than I thought they would be! Continue

Added by Nicole Silvester on August 20, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

New Bookish Column: Leaf by Leaf

I'm writing for Handmade News now, and just had a new article go up yesterday. It's the first installment in my new books & paper column Leaf by

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Added by Nicole Silvester on August 17, 2009 at 1:27am — 2 Comments

More Elfland

I've just posted the last batch of images of my very old book (1992!) Growing Up in Elfland. You can see the photos individually in My Photos, but if you want to see the book as a whole, I'd recommend viewing the "Growing Up in Elfland" Album. I'll warn you, though, it's full of bad drawings and worse poetry. I'm really only posting it as part of an historical record of my development as a bookbinder and book artist. Now I'll have to dig through my things and decide what to post next. I… Continue

Added by Nicole Silvester on July 5, 2009 at 5:40am — No Comments

Books to Hold or Let Go

Opening Thursday 14 May at Craft ACT, Canberra, and running to 20 June:

An exhibition of fine bookbinding in response to the Ampersand Duck volume Poems to Hold or Let Go (Rosemary Dobson and Rosalind Atkins, 2008). There are 23 binders, including Mia Leijonstedt, Sue Anderson, Genevieve Swifte, Molly Coy, Joy Tonkin, Wayne Stock, Lorraine Brown, Wendy Taylor, Linda Ne… Continue

Added by Caren Florance on May 14, 2009 at 1:30am — No Comments

Plant based paper and the Law

I was recently sent a little handmade book and some handmade paper. The Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service 'ordered into quarantine' most of the handmade paper. I have just put a blog post on my personal blog about it. I have cross posted it here as well. I think it is something artists who create with paper and fibres need to keep in mind. I'm sure Australia isn't the only country with stif… Continue

Added by Jan Allsopp on May 8, 2009 at 3:53pm — 4 Comments

New Issue - Bonefolder - now online

Bonefolder Vol. 5, No.2 Spring 2009 is now available online here. The Bonefolder, an outgrowth of the Book Arts Web, is a peer-reviewed “open-access” e-journal for bookbinding and the book arts. Since fall of 2004, Th… Continue

Added by Robert Heather on April 23, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Virtual Edible Book Festival

If you happen to be in a location that does not host a local Edible Book festival, you can now participate online! The Bookbinding Etsy Street Team is hosting a virtual Edible Book Festival. Everyone is welcome to participate. Just make your edible book creation and snap a couple photos. Multiple entries are welcome. Upload the photos to our Flickr Group any time before the deadline: 12pm EDT on April 1, 2009. (It's really that simple; there is no registration, no fee, and no traveling requ… Continue

Added by Rhonda Miller on March 17, 2009 at 3:00pm — 2 Comments

Deadline for The MCBA Prize extended!

A note from Minnesota Center for Book Arts: We have received several emails from members of the international book artist community concerning logistics of submitting work for The MCBA Prize. In consideration of these concerns, we have chosen to extend the deadline for ALL entries for The MCBA Prize. This should allow ample time for the receipt of materials and for the timing of banking transactions. Entries for The MCBA Prize are now due at Minnesota Center for Book Arts on or by March 20,… Continue

Added by Curt Lund on March 5, 2009 at 5:59am — No Comments

Art Deco books?

Just a quick note to say that I went to the Art Deco exhibition at the NGV yesterday and was very surprised to see some wonderful art deco bookbinding included in the show as well as a copy of Sonia Delaunay's Illustration for Blaise Cendrars's, La Prose du Transiberien et La Petite Jehanne de France (Editions des Hommes Nouveaux 1913). Probably I shouldn't have been surprised because the exhibition has come from the Victoria and Albert Mus… Continue

Added by Robert Heather on August 25, 2008 at 11:25am — 2 Comments

Call for participants: Books to Hold or Let Go

Wanted: Craft bookbinders, to participate in a group exhibition of fine bindings responding to a single text. The latest Ampersand Duck fine press volume is Poems to Hold or Let Go, a selection of poetry by Australia’s most respected poet, Rosemary Dobson (including a small number never before published in book format), with wood engravings by acclaimed Melbourne printmaker Rosalind Atkins. The volume is 56pp, printed using letterpress processes on Magnani laid paper. It is due for publi… Continue

Added by Caren Florance on August 1, 2008 at 1:28am — No Comments