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The American Bookbinders Museum

The American Bookbinders Museum

The American Bookbinders Museum explores and celebrates the craft, culture, and tools of bookbinding.

Get in the spooky spirit tomorrow with the American Bookbinders Museum! There are still spots left in tomorrow’s centipede journal workshop. Try your hand at bookbinding and embroidery. Make a unique book with the added effect of centipedes crawling across its spine. While experience is recommended it is not required. All supplies will be provided. Date: October 12thTime: 1:00 pm PSTCost: $30#workshop #ABM #halloween #spooky #creepy #crawly #bookbinding #SanFrancsico ... See MoreSee Less
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Artist Carolee Jakes's unique approach to bookbinding covers with screenprinting adds a unique dimension to her books. According to the artist, her work combines printing and painting techniques and explores the visual continuum between representation and abstraction. Learn more about Jakes's technique, materials, and more used to incorporate screen printing with bookbinding this Saturday! Date: October 12, 2024Time: 11 am PSTCost: $10 A webinar recording will be available to all ticket holders following the#ABMn#screenprintinge#bookbindingo#webinarg #webinar ... See MoreSee Less
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Bookbinding can be a highly meditative relaxing process. Creating books can leave you with a sense of accomplishment and pride while also giving you a creative outlet. Working with your hands in a repetitive process forces you to take a step away from other things. Take a moment for yourself this World Mental Health Day and book bind. #breathe #WorldMentalHealthDay #bookbinding #journaling #arttherapy ... See MoreSee Less
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This #NationalBookMonth we are highlighting our staff favorites from the collection. Here is why Dogtown is the favorite of our Executive Director, Anita Engles. We have a large collection of decorated publishers’ bindings dating from the 1830s to the 1950s. There are lots of gorgeous cover designs in the collection, but my favorite book design is Dogtown. Not just because I am a huge dog lover, but for its beautiful, simplistic yet elegant cover design. A single row of dog heads repeats from cover-to-cover and over the spine. Each dog is attached to the next from their collar by a lead. To get the full effect, open the book and look at the front, back, and spine in its entirety. I love the design and its colors. It’s genius. Written by Mabel Osgood-Wright and published in 1902 by The MacMillian Company, it was produced in the heyday of decorated publishers’ bindings. The story is anachronistic but I love the book. #archives #musuem #booktok #booklover #bookshelfwealth #dogsofinstagram #doglover #publishersbinding ... See MoreSee Less
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We are 94.5% of the way towards our goal of lighting up the display cases. Help us reach 100%! #donate #ABM #americanbookbindersmuseum #supportmuseums ... See MoreSee Less
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Ángel and Aurora
Ángel and Aurora

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

Fan Notebook
Fan Notebook

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

Ángel
Ángel

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

Beatriz
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
Inés

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

Elisa
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

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

Maria
Maria

María. Italian fabric diary with cotton thread details, handmade bridles and painted edges. Year 2003. Dimensions 24x18 cm.  

Blanca
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

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

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
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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