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The American Bookbinders Museum
The American Bookbinders Museum explores and celebrates the craft, culture, and tools of bookbinding.
Get your holiday shopping done this weekend with the ABM!🛍📚![]()
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Shop online for an automatic 10% off at checkout now until December 2nd. Find marbled papers for binders, handmade books for your favorite creatives, and ABM merch for the museum lover in your life. ![]()
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Tag a friend who’d love to join, and let’s make books beautiful again! 📖✨![]()
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Date: January 11, 2025 ![]()
Time: 12:00 - 3:00 pm![]()
Cost: $45![]()
Location: American Bookbinders Museum![]()
Instructor: Alexandra Sarette![]()
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Create a miniature carousel book with the American Bookbinders Museum in collaboration with @creativitykids when the Children’s Creativity Museum lights up their carousel for the holidays! 🎠💡🎡Explore the art of bookbinding in a night full of fun for the whole family. ![]()
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Giving Tuesday was created in response to Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Tired of shopping this Black Friday? Come visit us today or support us on Giving Tuesday (December 3rd)!![]()
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The Indian Primer 1669 is an “Early American” book believed to have been bound by the Wampanoag people in what is now Massachusetts. The text, which was printed on the first printing press in the US features the Wampanoag alphabet, The Lord's Prayer, the Catechism, and an index of the Old and New Testaments. It was intended to force conversion to Christianity on the Wampanoag people.![]()
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This unusually small book measures only 2.4x3” and is made with American Beech wood scale boards. The binding itself stabs through the pages and is sewn with leather thongs. The cover is white leather with adornments, It is not typical of schoolbooks which would have had less costly material, indicating Indigenous craftsmanship. The white leather is believed to be brain-tanned buckskin, rather than dry heat-treated. This is a typical tanning method found across various Indigenous nations across the east coast. ![]()
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Learn more about this book with this video from the Rare Book School: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHCqGK-0erU ![]()
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Maria
María. Italian fabric diary with cotton thread details, handmade bridles and painted edges. Year 2003. Dimensions 24x18 cm.
Blanca
Blanca. Collage with sheepskin on both sides. Cuts in the inner sheets and registers of henequen thread. Year 2003. Dimensions 24x18 cm.
Violeta
Violeta. Journal bound in Valencian dyed sheepskin leather, with carved edges, the journal covers in turn form the protection box, French endpapers, bridles and nail details. It was sewn on a loom with linen thread. Year 2003. Dimensions 18x12 [...]
