Volunteer Night at the Museum this Thursday!
We are so excited for our first monthly Volunteer Night on Thursday July 23rd at 7pm. This is a time for you to come meet museum volunteers and staff, take a tour of the museum and hear about our upcoming projects. If you can’t make this event please sign up
Ink Making!
A few weeks ago we had a pilot ink making tutorial here at the Museum. Here are some images and explanations of the process, which resulted in use-able ink! It all started with a few Oak Galls (the primary ingredient in Iron Gall Ink). Oak galls form when the Gall
Cleaning and Cataloguing the Pen Ruling Machine
This past Friday was Chronicle Books’ annual volunteer day. While the majority of the company spent the day helping out at the San Francisco Zoo, my two stellar colleagues Neil and Ben joined me here at the Museum to assist archivist Jae Mauthe and Founder Tim James in cleaning, cataloguing
Saturday’s Bookbinding Tutorial
This past saturday we held our first bookbinding tutorial here at the museum. 4 of our volunteers came out and learned how to do a simple pamphlet stitch as well as the more complex sewing over tapes with a french fold, then casing into a hard cover. Since one of