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Our workshop on Buttonhole Bindings is FULL. Add yourself to the waitlist or check out all of our workshops, like next month's Triangular Map Fold, from now til December on the ABM website.Triangular Map FoldDate: May 10thTime: 12:00 - 2:00 pmCost: $45Instructor: Alexandra Sarette, Programs Mana#workshopss#ABM #bookbindingn#mapfoldp#waitlisttlist ... See MoreSee Less

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First published in 1690 in Boston, The New England Primer (also known as “The Little Bible of New England”) was a key early textbook used throughout Colonial America for almost 200 years. The book was written due to a push for literacy in Early America by English Puritans. Settlers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony believed understanding the Bible was crucial to ensuring salvation and an essential foundation for a strong society. The outcome was skyrocketing literacy rates, surpassing those in other settlements and some areas of Europe. The Massachusetts Bay Colony’s convictions about learning were foundational to what we now consider public education in the United States. #fridayfact #EarlyAmerica #Literacy #PublicEducation #MarchIntoLiteracyMonth #NewEnglandPrimer ... See MoreSee Less

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Do you stay up late into the night reading? Is your TBR pile taking over your home? Do you ever worry you won't read them? Do you keep buying books even despite this? If you answered yes to these questions, then you might have Bibliomania! 📚🤯Today is Bibliomania Day, a holiday commemorating the theft of almost 24,000 books worth $5.3 million from 268 libraries and museums, many of which were rare! Stolen by Stephen Blumberg, aka “The Book Bandit,” it remains the largest recorded book theft in history. Blumberg was a book lover reading constantly. According to an FBI informant, "It was his habit to read constantly through the night, cat-napping, waking, reading, dozing, waking, reading again, never fully sleeping.”What do you think, do you have a case of Bibliomania? #PleaseDontStealOurBooksImage of Blumberg stolen books returned to the library at Creighton University from the Creighton University website#Bibliomania #Booklover #Bookhistory #Library ... See MoreSee Less

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Join Alan Sobrino of Errant Press to discuss what makes a book a book. Is there a perfect form, distribution method, or binding? What happens when we push its boundaries? This webinar will be recorded and sent out to all ticket holders following the event. April 5th11:00am PDT#bookbinding #artistbooks #webinar #whatisabook? ... See MoreSee Less

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The Cathach, also known as The Psalter of St Columba, is one of the oldest surviving books in Ireland. The manuscript created before 561 AD was written at least 231 years before the more famous Book of Kells, created around 800 AD. The manuscript is the first known Irish copy of the Gallicanum Psalter with interpretative rubrics, written on vellum consisting of 58 folios. According to lore, the manuscript was secretly copied by Colum Cille, the founder of Iona. This led to a disagreement of ownership over the copy in court, the ruling of which was ‘To every cow belongs her calf, therefore to every book belongs its copy’. This led to the battle of Cúl Dreimhe and Colum Cille's subsequent exile in Scotland.Later in the Middle Ages there was a shrine made for it, known in Irish as a cumhdach, by the O'Donnell family so it could be taken as a talisman into battle; this book shrine can be viewed in the National Museum of Ireland.Image from The Royal Irish Academy#Manuscript #StPatricksDay #Bookbinding #Ireland ... See MoreSee Less

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Ángel and Aurora

Diary Technique: parchment with carved edges and exposed seam. 18 x 10 cm 2001

Fan Notebook

Technique: made of cotton fabric and Ingres Fabriano cardboard. 16.5 x 3.2 cm (closed) 2002

Ángel

Diary Technique: leather spine, embossed, and hand-painted paper. 12 x 8.5 cm 2000

Beatriz

Diary Technique: Pigskin with sheepskin mosaic and embossing; the edges are carved and painted, hand-painted guards and metal register. 18x12 cm 2002.

Inés

Journal. Technique: Made with cotton thread and inlaid beads.16x10 cm 2004

Elisa

Elisa. Journal made with red and black suede, carved edges and details that come from the seam, French endpapers and separator with suede details. Year 2002. Dimensions 19x12.5 cm.

Alejandro

Alejandro. Portablock with thread detail on the cover. Year 2006. Dimensions 12x8.5cm.

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 [...]

Miguel Hernandez

Miguel Hernandez, by Jose Luis Ferris. Prepared for the 1st International Art Bookbinding Exhibition, held by the “Llar del Llibre” Workshop in Alicante, Spain. Bound in natural sheepskin leather, with acrylic-tinted carved edges, amate paper [...]

Around the World in Eighty Days

Le tour du monde en quatre vingt jours/(Around the World in Eighty Days, original French edition), by Jules Verne Prepared for the International Competition of the 8th World Art Bookbinding Biennial, held in Paris, France, in 2005: “Un calendr [...]

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