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- Workshop Tour / Making Your Own Tools / And More – Jordan Jay Tanner [iBB Podcast #24.2]
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- iBB Podcast #3.1 – Eliane Gomes / Nautilus Boekbinderij. What Is Book Restoration? 3×4-Meter Studio Tour
- iBB Podcast #2. Todd Davis / Middlesex Bindery – Bookbinding as a Third Career, Lockdown, Q&A
- How Not to Repair Your Old Bible With Duct Tape
- Archival Metal Staples — Isn’t There a Contradiction Here?
- Washi – An Ancient Material is Being Put to a Bookish Use
- All About That Pesky Scotch Tape
- Comics: Things to Avoid During Restoration
- Comics: Their Sentimental and Trading Value
- Restoration of an 18th-Century Slavonic Liturgical Book
- A 19th-Century Diary for My Daughter
- Preserving Imperfections – Basics in Paper Conservation
- 5 Ways to Remove Cigarette Smell from Books
- 5 Beautiful Bookbinding-Themed Facebook Accounts to Follow This February
- The Anatomy of Restoration
- “Desilking” A Christmas Carol Explained
- Fascinating Process of Restoration of a 17th Century Map
- Video: Repairing a Historical Thomas Jefferson Document with Washi Paper
- Category: Cloth Conservation and Restoration
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- iBB Podcast #9.2 – Stepan Chizhov – 3d-Printing, How iBookBinding Works, and Workshop Tour
- Digitized Book: A Guide to Beginners in the Art of Illumination (Albert H. Warren, 1860)
- Bookplates by Aleksei Kravchenko – Книжные знаки А.И. Кравченко (1924)
- Quality of the Images Made with Our Book Scanning System
- Digitized: December’1901 Issue of the Russian Magazine ‘Printing Art’ (“Печатное искусство”)
- Digitized Book: The Great Book-Collectors (Charles Isaac Elton, Mary Augusta Elton, 1893)
- Digitized Book: The First Issue of the Russian Magazine “Printing Art” From 1901
- May’1902 Issue of the Russian Magazine Art of Print (“Печатное искусство”)
- Het drukkers jaarboek 1911 (The Printer’s Yearbook, 1911)
- French Paper Industry Bulletin ‘Papyrus’ – August 1930
- Russian ‘Printing Art’ Magazine from 1902 and a Selection of Bookplates
- Cuban Botany Manuscript Found After Being Lost for 190 Years
- Het drukkers jaarboek 1908 (The Printer’s Yearbook, 1908)
- The Invention of Printing – Die Erfindung der Buchdruckerkunst (Heinrich Meisner; Johannes Luther, 1900)
- Manuel Pratique de L’Ouvrier Relieur – A French Bookbinding Manual by Charles Chanat
- Het drukkers jaarboek 1906 (The Printer’s Yearbook, 1906)
- Manuscrits liturgiques de la bibliothèque du Havre
- First Reviews of My Book Scanning Cradle
- For Our Patrons, It’s Time to Choose New Candidates for Digitization and Download a Book from the Previous Month
- Digitized Book of the Week: Objects of Art from the Museum Plantin-Moretus
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- An Extension to iBookBinding Online Book Collection
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- Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Books from the Rosenberg Collection to Auction
- iBookBinding Is Looking For a New Member of Its Podcast Team – Video Editor
- Lockdown, Delayed Supplies, and Great Bookish Community
- iBookBinding Reaches a New Goal on Patreon!
- My Bookish Books Collection (And My Approach to Building It)
- iBookBinding is Moving to the US
- iBookBinding in 2019: Year in Review
- Scientific Dating Solves a Manuscript Mystery
- Spooky Bookish Things for Halloween
- Before the Eagle had Landed
- Making a Book Alive — When Book Arts Meet Animatronics
- The 26th Ephemeral Exhibition of Decorative Binders
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- Nonexistent Bookplates From the Utopian Libraries
- The Great Book Scare and the Anxieties of Public Spaces
- The Process of Making My Books Chose Me
- Six Years With iBookBinding
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- Bookbinding? It Won’t Be Easy. But Keep on Doing It!
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- Intricate Folds Steal the Show in Matt Shlian’s Latest Paper Sculptures
- A Bibliophile’s Ex-Libris for 37.000 Books – The Bookplate of Sergey Vavilov with an Engraving of Félix Vallotton
- 10.000 Subscribers on Facebook! Hurray!
- Coming to London this Friday. Would Appreciate Advice on Bookish Places to Visit!
- Limited Time Offer: Sterling Silver Corner Cutting Jig!
- The Most Bookish Character of the Second Season of Game of Thrones
- Bookish Earrings with Marbled Covers in a Book Shop Next Door
- Spending a Couple of Days in Cannes. Any Bookish Advice on Where to Go and What to See?
- Just Burned My Blender While Making Recycled Paper
- Heart-Shaped Books: History and Tutorials
- The Lost Art of Letterlocking: Tutorials, Personal Experience, and Application in Bookbinding
- Bookworm’s Feast: 15 Independent Bookstores Opened in 2018 in the UK
- Astonishing Pop-Up Books Chosen as Finalists of the Meggendorfer Artist Book Prize in 2018
- It’s the #LibraryShelfieDay Today!
- Binding the Booker – A Short BBC Documentary on Bookbinding
- iBookBinding: A Year in Review
- Recent Updates to My Bookbinding Workbench
- To the Letter. A Portrait of Ben Joosten
- Paul Revere & His Engraving
- Recent Reviews of iBookBinding at Etsy
- Next Destination: Bookish Ireland!
- How I Found a Composing Stick (and Much More) in Copenhagen
- Going to Copenhagen This Weekend
- Black Friday and Digital Monday Deals for Bookbinders and Bookish People
- 25% Black Friday Discounts at iBookBinding Until the 30th of November!
- Hundreds of Antiquarian Booksellers Fight Amazon Subsidiary’s Recent Decision
- Halloween at iBookBinding
- Umlauts of Berlin
- The Person Behind Book, Passport and Other Paper Props in the Movies
- In Reply to 5 Reasons Why Bookbinding Is the Best Hobby
- Nice Catch at the Book Market in the Hague
- Bookbinders’ Fair is Happening in Cologne This Sunday!
- 5 Reasons Why Bookbinding Is the Best Hobby
- iBookBinding is Looking for a Contributor
- Bookbinding: A Comprehensive Guide to Folding, Sewing, & Binding
- Going to Spain Next Week
- See You at the Sint Niklaas Bookbinders’ Fair This Sunday!
- iBookBinding Ranked #1 Bookbinding Blog by Feedspot
- Coming to Berlin this Weekend
- Being a Bookbinder with Allergy to Books
- iBookBinding: a Year in Review
- Big Changes are Coming for iBookBinding. We are Moving to Amsterdam!
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- My First Bookbinding Press
- The List of the Most Expensive Manuscripts Had Recently Been Updated
- Dexter-Style Conversion of an Apartment into a Workshop
- How a 3,800-Year-Old Clay Tablet Teaches Us Trigonometry
- Collection of Book-Themed Postage Stamps
- A Question to Librarians – Cataloguing Software for a School Library
- Two Years with iBookBinding 2.0
- Please Help to Find a Bookbinding Souvenir in London
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- Going to Armenia This Weekend
- Monthly Q&A at iBookBinding. What Do You Think About That?
- The 2017 Education and Training Conference by the Society or Bookbinders
- Book History in Postage Stamps
- Busy Days at Workshop and a Bit of Self-Analysis
- The Society of Bookbinders 21st Education and Training Conference
- O Fascinante Processo de Restauro de um Mapa do Séc. XVII
- What Do You Think About That Way of Shelving Your Books?
- Bookbinding Posts You Shouldn’t Have Missed in January
- 15 Tutoriais Principais de Encadernação Japonesa na Internet
- Freehand Gold Tooling Calligraphy Videos
- Moving the 600-Year Corsini Archive
- New iBookBinding Logo
- iBookBinding: A Year in Review
- Top iBookBinding Posts of 2016
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- The First Package I Ever Sent to Australia
- Star Wars Meets Bookbinding. Episode V
- YOUR Advice is Needed!
- Quran Transcribed With Gold and Silver Ink on Black Silk Pages
- From Onmia Libris in Reply to iBookBinding’s Request
- Black Friday 2016 for Bookbinders and Book Lovers
- Bookbinders and Money: Inner Conflict
- Please Support iBookBinding at Patreon!
- Sharpening a Pencil with a Bench Grinder
- Bad Service
- iBookBinding.com Updated
- Video: Making of the Rice Paper
- First Bookbinding Class of the Season
- Video: Binding a Huge Anniversary Book
- Drawing Shadows for Inlays on Leather Cover
- Soft Weights for Bookbinding: The Experiment
- Ideas for the New Season of Bookbinding Classes
- Sketchbook Makeover: A Simple Change
- Paper, Leather, Cloth: How Do You Store It?
- Furnishing My New Bookbinding (and Woodworking) Workshop
- Quick Question About Soft Weights (Yes, Soft Weights Again!)
- Building a Fake Rounded Spine for a Box
- My Recent Bookbinder’s Side Job
- Soft Weights for Bookbinding
- Being Bookish in Venice
- Viaggio in Italia
- What Makes a Book a Book? by TED-Ed
- Rope-Wrapped Handles for a Lying Press
- Moscow Metro Have Launched a Shakespeare-Themed Train
- The Oldest Ukrainian Printed Book Is Stolen in Kiev
- Why Do Old Books Smell So Good?
- Making Bookbiding Tools In My New Woodworking Workshop
- How To Tie A Weaver’s Knot (Attaching A New Thread)
- Raw Craft with Anthony Bourdain – Episode Five: Arion Press
- Folding A Sheet Of Paper 7 Times
- My First Handmade Bakelite Folder
- Do You Know Any Ancient Jewish Codices?
- Avoiding Standard Paper Sizes — Pie Books
- American Academy of Bookbinding Scholarships
- Chip Kidd Gives an Advice On Cover Design
- The Oldest Russian Book Is Not Really a Book
- Between the Covers: Altered Books in Contemporary Art
- Soviet Censorship Bookbinding Tutorial
- Updating Lists of Bookbinding Workshops and Classes
- 2015 for iBookBinding — A Year of Changes
- Using a Makeshift Bookbinding Plough. Part 2
- Star Wars Meets Bookbinding. Episode IV
- Using a Makeshift Bookbinding Plough
- Top 10 Box Making Tutorials on the Internet
- Your Bookbinding Tools and Workplace
- Bookbinder’s Holiday Gift List: 12 Essential Books And More!
- Designer Bookbinders Annual Competition Winners Announced
- Black Friday Offers for Bookbinders and by Bookbinders (Valid Over Weekend) From All Over the World — 2015
- Smart Archival Boxes, Trays and Portfolios
- 2nd International Artists’ Book Fair in Guadalajara
- New Worlds Carved Out of Old Books
- 20 Years of Bookbinding at the Brussels’ Académie des Beaux-Arts Jean-Jacques Gailliard
- Cursos de encadernação no Portugal | Bookbinding Workshops in Portugal (2015)
- Major Japanese Washi Paper Exhibition Opens in London
- Printing Women: Three Centuries of Female Printmakers, 1570–1900
- 3rd Annual Juried Artists’ Book Exhibition, Fort Worth
- 422-Volume Rare Book Collection Becomes an Integral Part of the American Bookbinders Museum
- Leather-Paring Stones
- Bookbinding Workshops / Classes in Italy (2015)
- Talleres de encuadernación en Chile| Bookbinding Workshops in Chile (2015)
- A Bookbinding Story: Grandpa Turns 100
- Bookbinding Workshops / Classes in Australia (2015)
- Talleres de encuadernación en México | Bookbinding Workshops in Mexico (2015)
- Bookbinding Workshops / Classes in Belgium (2015)
- Talleres de encuadernación en España | Bookbinding Workshops in Spain (2015)
- Talleres de encuadernación en Argentina | Bookbinding Workshops in Argentina (2015)
- The Largest Calligraphy Work in the World Created in Moscow, Russia
- Cursos de encadernação no Brasil | Bookbinding Workshops in Brazil (2015)
- Talleres de encuadernación en España y los países de América del Sur
- 7th Los Angeles Printers Fair
- Paper Marbling: Turkish Marbling Tips for Beginners
- Monthly Roundup September 2015
- Paper Grain Direction and Cardboard Grain Direction
- Spanish Best Artistic Binding Award Winners Announced
- Pop-Up Books by Marion Bataille
- Portuguese (Brazilian) version of iBookBinding.com
- Bookbinding & Anatomy
- From Author to Author/Book Binder: A Journey
- Bookbinding Workshops / Classes in Canada (2015)
- Bone, Wooden, Metal and Other Types of Bookbinder’s Folders
- iBookBinding.com is Looking for New Team Members
- New Fine Binding Competition in the USA and Three Other Bookbinding Contests
- Bookbinding Workshops / Classes in the USA (2015)
- The Day the Gutenberg Bible Binding was Finished
- Only One Day Left to Bid on 204 Lots of Bookbinding Tools and Equipment
- Top 10 Endband Tutorials on the Internet
- Who is Mr. Chizhov?
- iBookBinding 2.0
- Top 10 Long-Stitch Bookbinding Tutorials
- Weapon of Mass Instruction!
- Top 10 Secret Belgian Binding Tutorials
- PDF Bookbinding Collection (105 different bookbinding books – 1.23 GB)
- What exactly is a ‘Nipping Press’?
- Guest Posting Opportunity: Share Your Projects, Knowledge or Services
- Simple Bookbinding Tutorial
- City & Guilds Course in Bookbinding (for Beginners)
- Advanced (and unusual…) Papermaking Techniques
- Bookbinding Workshops / Classes in the UK (2014 – 2015)
- Marbling Tutorials, Equipment & Photo Galleries
- Free Bookbinding Books
- Top 5 Must Read Books on Marbling Techniques + Reviews
- Book Anatomy (Parts of a Book) & Definitions
- Book Binding Tutorial: Glues – Tips, Techniques, Types & Recipes
- Top 10 Coptic Stitch Binding Tutorials on the Internet
- 12. Making Bookbinding Headbands Tutorial
- 11. Making Split Cover Boards for Larger Books
- 10. Rebinding an Old Book Tutorial
- 09. Bookbinding Projects
- 08. Taking Care of the Last Few Details
- 07. Attaching the Mull, Creating and Fixing the Boards
- 06. Sewing / Stitching the Book
- 05. Collating the Signatures
- 04. Folding the Sheets
- 03. Fundamentals of Bookbinding
- Introduction to Bookbinding Supplies and Materials
- 01. Bookbinding History and Introduction
- Bookbinding: A Step-by-Step Guide Book Review
- Category: Beautiful Bookbinding Links
- Category: Being Bookish in...
- Boekhandel Dominicanen — Modern Bookshop in a Medieval Cathedral
- Southbank Book Market in London
- Used Books Shop in a 16th-Century Cellar in the Old Town of Grasse, France
- Category: Africa
- Category: Eritrea
- Category: Belgium
- Category: Europe
- Category: Book Reviews
- Category: Bookbinder in the Classroom
- Category: Bookbinder's Experience
- iBB Podcast #9.1 – Stepan Chizhov – Origins, Studying at AAB, and Making & Selling Tools to Bookbinders
- Bookbinding Throwback: My First Binding with Leather Inlays
- The First Book I Bound, My First Press, and Some Mistakes I Made
- Five Years Ago This Day I Became a Bookbinding Teacher
- Getting Cold Feet Before Every Bookbinding Class
- A Problem with Finishing Binding My Books
- Tables and Built-in Workshop Storage Options
- The First Book You Ever Made
- 5 Beautiful Bookbinding-Themed Facebook Accounts to Follow This January
- What Do You Do with Paper Offcuts?
- Being a Newbie Gold Tooling Student
- 5 Beautiful Bookbinding-Themed Facebook Accounts to Follow This December
- Challenges of Being a Book Conservator in Portugal
- Poor Experience With Omnia Libris
- Sentiment Changes Book’s Value. In Reply to Bookbinders and Money: Inner Conflict
- Being a Bookbinder in Portugal
- “Basic Binding” and “Basic Book Repair” Prices
- When Your Student Does a Better Job Than You
- Category: Books in Movies and Other Media
- Category: Featured Bookbinders
- iBB Podcast #1. Ben Elbel from Elbel Libro. Part 1 – Path to Bookbinding and Workshop Tour
- Adelene Koh: Probably the Only Bespoke Bookbinder of Singapore
- Being Bookish in Bucharest
- Featured Bookbinder: Kris Stewart
- Category: Bookbinder's Workshop
- iBookBinding’s New Workshop Space
- Workshop Tour and Show & Tell – Richard Minsky [iBB Podcast #25.3]
- iBB Podcast #10 – Stopan – The New Bulgarian Bookbinding Tradition, Show & Tell, Workshop Tour
- iBB Podcast #8.2 – Mark Cockram. Workshop Tour and Bindings’ Show & Tell
- Workbench of Ben Elbel from Elbel Libro
- Category: First Book
- Category: Galleries
- Inspiring Bookbinding Projects of November
- Workshop Tour of Arta Cărții — Bookbinding Studio of Mihai Vârtejaru in Bucharest
- Inspiring Bookbinding Projects of October
- Newspapers Used in Cover Design? Sometimes It Is Quite Fitting
- Workshop Tour of Introligatornia Tylkowski — Bookbinding Studio of Jacek Tylkowski
- Our Gentle Boy Onfim – Birch Bark Doodles of a Medieval Russian Kid
- Sometimes Somewhat Naive Covers are the Best
- Mr. Marcel Proust and His Turquoise Marbled Papers
- Things Bookbinders Make: Jewelry Box
- OPEN • SET Competition Prize Winners and Participants of the Touring Exhibition Announced
- Sneak Peak of the Genizah at the Grand Choral Synagogue in Saint Petersburg
- How Not to Repair a Book’s Spine
- Profound Connection with Nature of Ingeir Djuvik’s Design Bindings
- Embroidering Japanese Style Notebooks with Veins, 3D Mesh Modelling and Insects
- Signature Designs & Stitching Ideas
- Headband / Endband Gallery
- Category: Book Market Finds
- Category: Books in Visual Arts
- Category: Margin Doodles
- Category: Weekly Cartoon at iBookBinding
- Category: Highlights
- Temporary Issues With iBookBinding’s Email Address
- Experimenting With Book Structures: Ben Elbel [Bookish Talk #26]
- Fine Bindings of Louise Bescond – Personal Exhibition [Bookish Talk #25]
- iBB Holiday Special – Mark Cockram, Kate Holland & Richard Minsky [iBB Podcast #26]
- [iBB en français #1.1] Julie Auzillon: Beginning / Origata Binding / Binding on Rods
- Unusual Bookshops From All Over the World [iBB Live #12]
- Street Typography of Belgium / Signs & Numbers – Armina Ghazaryan [Bookish Talk #23]
- Are Bookish Events Coming Back? [iBB Live #7]
- Josep Cambras: 50 Years of Fine Binding & 35 Years as a Bookbinding Teacher [iBB en Español #1.1]
- Bookbinding in Hawaii by Angaea Cuna – From Sculpture to Artist’s Books [Bookish Talk #20]
- Miniature Artist’s Books and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder – Rebecca Padgham [Bookish Talk #19]
- Manuscripts, Vintage, and Artists’ Books in Russia [iBB Live #4]
- Searching for Bookish Things in Russia [iBB Live #3]
- Bookbinder’s Year in Lockdown – Todd Davis – Bookish Talk #16
- iBB Podcast #20.2 – Daniel Kelm – Show & Tell and Workshop Tour
- Hannah Brown – Bookish Talk #14
- Bookish Talk #13 – Anna Markova – iBB français
- iBB Podcast Special – iBookBinding is Moving to France!
- iBB Podcast #13.1 – Peter Geraty – Bookbinder’s Apprentice in the 1970s / Studying Throughout Life
- Category: Interviews
- Category: Paper Planes
- Category: Reviews
- Category: Top Slider
- Category: Video
- The Poetry of Bookbinding
- William Blake’s Innovative Printing Process
- Neil Gaiman Talks About Writing Novels in Vintage Ledgers with Fountain Pens
- Creating a Recycled ‘Paper Wave’
- Paper Rag Crisis of the 21st Century – The Last Traditional Papermaker
- How to Operate a Book
- One of the Largest and Most Expensive Bird Books Displayed at Liverpool Library
- A Bit More About Dos Rapporté Binding From Ben Elbel
- Repairing an Endband
- What Does it Take to Make the Thinnest Sheet of Paper?
- 10 Things That Terrify Archivists
- Boeken in de Bavo – The Annual Book Market in Haarlem
- Ken Sanders – Rare Books Seller and Stolen Books Detective
- Saturday Book Market in Ghent, Belgium
- Life, Paper, and Calligraphy
- Kickstarter Alert! Book Restoration Unveiled: A Guide for Book Collectors
- Making Paper with Watermarks with a 3D-Printed Mould
- My Impressions of the Sint-Niklaas Bookbinders’ Fair in Belgium
- The Largest Miniature Book Collection of József Tari
- A Dublin Bookbinder: RTÉ Documentary
- Amazing Wizard of Oz Pop-Up Book by Robert Sabuda
- Goats, Bookworms, a Monk’s Kiss
- Watch How the Old Books Are Restored Step by Step
- Medieval Knights Fighting Snails
- How Zaansch Bord Paper is Made with Windmill Power
- Conservation of the Largest Printed Work of the British Museum Collection
- 3d-Papercraft Mount Fuji Book
- Fixer of Books at the University of Virginia Conservation Lab
- Trimming a Book With a Router
- Binding a Book, the Old-Fashioned Way
- Korean Hanji Paper Making
- Restoring Pages of a 300 Year Old Book
- Cutting Edge Artwork of Eric Standley
- Get Inside the Restoration Lab of the National Library of Spain
- An Experiment in 18th Century Papermaking
- Street Libraries in Australia (with Examples and Instructions on How to Make Them)
- In the Shop of 81-Year-Old Bookbinder Wolfgang Bremer
- Vibrant Book Repair Video from Harvard Collections Care
- Enchanting Video From a Lebanese Bookbindery
- Magic of the Printing Process Captured in This Video
- Civil War-Era Diary Goes from Conservation to Website
- Rare 18th Century Book Restoration
- Category: Bookish News
- Category: Bookish Talk
- Category: iBB en Español
- Category: iBB en français
- Category: iBB Podcast
- Category: Live Streams
- Category: Book Elements
- Category: Book Cover
- Category: Bookplate
- Category: Endbands
- Category: Endleaves
- Category: Signatures
- Category: Bookbinding Guilds
- Category: Bookbinding Styles
- Inspiring Bookbinding Projects of September
- Surprising Mixed Three-Section Stabbed Binding From Early Communist Russia
- The Chelsea Bindery and References to the Doves Press/Bindery
- Dos Rapporté by Bookbinding Out of the Box. One of the Best Printed Bookbinding Tutorials I Have Ever Seen
- Category: Accordion Books
- Category: Artists Books
- Category: Bradel binding
- Category: Coptic Binding
- Category: Design Bindings
- Embroidered Fine Binding of Herbert’s Dune and Other Projects of Erin Fletcher [iBB Podcast #32]
- Design Bindings of the Booker Prize 2021 – Tom McEwan [Bookish Talk #27]
- Design Bindings of the Booker Prize 2021 – Kate Holland [Bookish Talk #24]
- Design Bindings of the Booker Prize 2021 – Mark Cockram [Bookish Talk #24]
- Bookbinding as an NFT? Discussion with Richard Minsky [iBB Podcast #25.2]
- Visiting the Personal Exhibition of Louise Bescond in Paris [iBB Live #13]
- iBB Podcast #21.2 – Lucía Farías Villarreal – Show & Tell / Workshop Tour
- iBB Podcast #20.1 – Daniel Kelm – Experimenting With Book Arts for Almost 45 Years
- iBB Podcast #17.2 – Dimitris Koutsipetsidis – Bindings with Riddles and Layered Narratives
- Architecture, Bookbinding, and Embroidery – Bookish Talk with Hannah Brown
- iBB Podcast #17.1 – Dimitris Koutsipetsidis – Coming to Bookbinding via Linguistics & Leatherworking
- iBB Podcast #16.1 – Peter Geraty – Show & Tell / Bindings & Techniques
- iBB Podcast #6 – Ingeir Djuvik – Award-Winning Hobbyist Bookbinder from Norway
- Category: French binding
- Category: French Link Stitch Bookbinding
- Category: Japanese Binding
- Category: Long-stitch Bookbinding
- Category: Miniature Books
- Category: Modern Bookbinding
- Category: Stab Binding
- Category: Bookish Pictures
- Category: Books
- Category: The Art of Bookbinding, Joseph W. Zaehnsdorf, 1897
- Coloring Edges | Sprinkling | Egg, Spot, Comb or Nonpareil, Spanish Marble | Sizing
- Drawing-In And Pressing
- Mill Boards & Mill Board Cutting
- Rounding & Backing
- Trimming & Gluing Up
- Putting on the End Papers
- Paste Paper and Pasting UP
- Cobb Paper, Surface Paper and Marbled Paper
- Book Binding Wire Equipment
- Book Binding Sewing Bands
- Marking Up And Sawing In
- Collating, Book Plates, Maps and Interleaving
- Collating, Book Plates & Maps
- Book Plates & Maps
- Book Binding Machine for Rolling, Collating and Maps
- Book Binding Machine, Gathering, Beating & Rolling
- Folding Bookbinder Supplied Folio with Bone Folder
- Introduction Part 2: Bookbinders Grolier, Roger Payne, and Derome
- Book Binding History/Introduction
- Contents: The Art of Bookbinding by Joseph W. Zaehnsdorf, published 1897
- Category: The Art of Bookbinding, Joseph W. Zaehnsdorf, 1897
- Category: Books Transformed
- Category: Book Sculpting
- Category: Boxmaking
- Category: Classifieds
- Category: Competitions
- Category: Designer Bookbinders
- Talking to Kate Holland About the Designer Bookbinders UK Competition [iBB Podcast #27.1]
- Two Design Binding Exhibitions in London [iBB Live #8]
- Award-Winning Binding, Gold Tooling, and Graphite Edges – Andreas Maroulis [iBB Podcast #22]
- Award-Winning Bindings of Richard Beadsmoore [Bookish Talk #18]
- Bookish Talk With Kate Holland – Bookish Talk #12
- Design Bindings of the Booker Prize 2020 – Lori Sauer – Bookish Talk #11
- Design Bindings of the Booker Prize 2020 – Kate Holland – Bookish Talk #9
- Design Bindings of the Booker Prize 2020 – Rachel Ward-Sale – Bookish Talk #7
- Six Design Bindings Made for the Six Titles Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
- Designer Bookbinders Announced the 4th International Competition
- Beautiful Bindings – Winners of This Year’s Designer Bookbinders Award
- Winners of the Designer Bookbinders International Bookbinding Competition 2017
- Interview with Bec Britain, Winner of the Harmatan Leather Ltd Prize (Designer Bookbinders)
- Interview with Piotr Jarosz, Winner of the Ash Rare Books Lettering Award (Designer Bookbinders)
- Interview with Glenn Malkin, Winner of the Folio Society Prize for the Set Book
- Designer Bookbinders Competition Awards Announced (2016)
- Category: DB UK Competition
- Category: OPEN • SET
- Category: Premio a las Mejores Encuadernaciones Artísticas
- Category: The SoB International Competition
- Category: Designer Bookbinders
- Category: Documentaries
- The Art of Bookbinding, a Mini Documentary
- Making Books (Short Documentary on Book Manufacture in 1947) by Encyclopedia Britannica Films
- The Art of Making a Book, Short Film/Bookbinding Documentary
- Hübner Bokform (A Mini Documentary by Gustav Bondeson)
- The History and Art of Chinese Paper Making (Journey in Time) Documentary Video + Info, 2010
- Category: Expo
- Join Me this April at the Bookbinders’ Fair in Belgium!
- Category: Book Markets
- Category: Bookshops
- Category: Collections
- Category: Exhibitions
- BASE – An Exhibition Space for a Single Book – Mark Cockram [Bookish Talk #17]
- Catalog of Exposition Internationale d’Ex-Libris, Brussels, 1929
- What Makes a Book a Book?
- Category: Boekkunstbeurs
- Going Live from Boekkunstbeurs, Leiden [iBB Live #10]
- Come Over to the Book Arts Fair in Leiden this November! Talking to Karin Cox [iBB Podcast #23]
- Witty and Sarcastic Prints by Luise Blackbird (Trigger Press)
- Book Arts Fair in Leiden is Only Two Days Away!
- Boekkunstbeurs is in Three Weeks — Art of Book Fair in Leiden, Netherlands
- Leiden Book Arts Fair This Weekend
- Category: Bookbinders' Fair Cologne
- Category: Codex Book Fair
- Category: Leiden
- Category: Sint Niklaas Bookbinders' Fair
- Category: Libraries
- Category: Museums
- Category: Guest Posts
- Category: History
- Emily K. Bell: Structural and Material Clues to Binding History [iBB Podcast #31.1]
- Story of a Soviet Antique Book Store Invitation [iBB Live #15]
- Bookish News: Medieval Physician’s Girdle Book Sold for £95,000 [Nov 24 – Dec 07, 2021]
- The Most Expensive Books in the World [iBB Live #6]
- Medieval Manuscripts from Russia and Rus’ [iBB Live #5]
- Medieval Russian Manuscripts, News, and More! [iBB Live #2]
- Amazing Medieval Book Covers from Siena – Tavolette di Biccherna [iBB Live #1]
- Cryptic History of Some Objects from My Collection – Bookish Talk #5
- The Illuminator. Containing All the Parts of The Illuminators Magazine & Completing the Subject (1862)
- Bookish Talk #1 – Worm-Eaten Manuscripts
- iBookBinding Opens Access to Its Collection of Books About Book Arts
- How New Technologies Enliven Old Finds
- Deceptive Printed “Marbled Paper” From the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
- Watch a Medieval Scholar Analyze The Fauquier Book of Hours
- Digitized Book: The Binding of Books. An Essay in the History of Gold-Tooled Bindings (Herbert P. Horne, 1894)
- Digitization or Restoration? The Sri Lanka Edition
- Amazing Decorated Initials From a 1905 Competition Held by the Studio Magazine
- The Advertiser’s Handbook (1923)
- Century-Old Russian Magazine ‘Printing Art’ (“Печатное искусство”) – January 1902
- One of the Twelve Remaining Gutenberg Vellum Bibles is Exhibited in Moscow
- Variations on the Theme of Bibliophile from the Ship of Fools by Sebastian Brant (1494, 1497)
- Het drukkers jaarboek 1907 (The Printer’s Yearbook, 1907)
- Amazing Century-Old Book Industry Ads
- Bookplates Miscellanea from the Collection of Joseph Jackson Howard
- Introduction to the British Library’s Current Anglo-Saxon Exhibition
- Doctor Zhivago, CIA, and a Fake Parisian Publishing House
- Employees of Biblioteca Angelica Demonstrate a Book that Opens Six Different Ways
- Digitized Book of The Week: A Short Historical Sketch of the Art of Bookbinding by William L. Andrews
- Sorting My Bookish Book Collection
- Have You Ever Seen Slate Exercise-Books Like This One?
- Get the Reprinted Edition of The Archaeology of Medieval Bookbinding by J.A. Szirmai!
- Medical Recipe Attributed to Hippocrates Found in Palimpsest from the St Catherine’s Monastery Collection
- Being Bookish in Armenia
- Bookbinding Posts You Shouldn’t Have Missed this April
- Bookbinding Posts You Shouldn’t Have Missed this March
- Category: History of Writing
- Category: Islamic Binding
- Category: Manuscripts
- Category: Medieval Bookbinding
- iBB Podcast #21 – Lucía Farías Villarreal – Being a Bookbinder in Mexico / Medieval Bookbinding
- A 450-Year-Old Bible is Used During the Inauguration of the President of Ukraine
- Medieval Bookbinding Tutorials
- Category: Carolingian Binding
- Category: Dos-a-Dos
- Category: Girdle Books
- Category: Gothic Binding
- Category: Palimpsests
- Category: Romanesque Binding
- Category: Modern Bookbinding
- Category: Making a Book
- Category: Cover Decoration
- Category: Gold Tooling
- Category: Illumination
- Category: Markets and Fairs
- Category: Materials
- Melting Down Beeswax
- Category: Glue and Paste
- Category: Marbled Paper
- Category: Paste Paper
- Category: News
- The Chelsea Bindery is Looking for a Boxmaker (London, UK)
- Stone Paper, a Promising Alternative
- Early Alphabetic Writing in the Ancient Near East: Bridging a Chronological Gap
- New Innovations in Effective Cold Glue Bookbinding Techniques
- Bespoke Fanfiction Bookbinding
- Mycelium Material, and Other Natural Leather Alternatives
- Locked up in Lockdown: Print Design During a Pandemic
- The Power of Play and Letterpress Art
- 2,000-Year-Old Biblical Scrolls Uncovered in a ‘Search and Rescue’ Mission
- A History of Early Papermaking in Asia and the Middle East: Online Event
- Lights, Tunnels, Passages, and Shadows
- Royal Purple Dye Unearthed on Textile Fragments in Israel
- Unlocking the Centuries-Old Secrets of Letterlocking
- Celebrating Young Female Book Collectors
- 13th-Century Music Manuscript Discovered in Prague
- A Glimpse at Relatable Frustrations Through a Paycheck From Ancient Rome
- New Book Showcases Early Color Printing As Never Before
- Mathematicians and Conservators Work Together to Restore Artwork
- Literary Poster Advertising: A Door Into the Imagination
- Exploring a Hidden Part of Hong Kong’s Artistic Identity Through Printmaking
- Umberto Eco’s Library and Archive Acquired by the Italian Culture Ministry
- Extraordinary Spanish/Chinese Dictionary Uncovered in University Archives
- Japanese Papercraft Inspires Advances in Engineering
- Is This Thomas Becket’s Precious ‘Little Book’?
- French Archaeologist Deciphers the 4500 Year Old Writing of the Kingdom of Elam
- Powell’s ‘Eau De Bookstore’ Fragrance Offers the Scent of Bookshops
- Prehistoric Rock Art Revealed on a Vast Scale
- Machine Learning Helps Decipher Languages That Have Been Lost to History
- A New Perspective on Ink Composition Reveals More About Ancient Egyptian Writing Practices
- Looted 10th Century Manuscript Is Finally Going Home Thanks to Museum Researchers
- 143-Year-Old First Edition of the Evening Telegraph Restored Using Modern Paper Conservation Techniques
- Crowdfunding the Bid for €700,000 Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Little Book’
- Update to Our Book Press Family
- 20% Halloween Discounts at the iBookBinding Shop!
- Researchers Discovered a Missing Part of “The Tale of Genji,” a Novel Written by A Japanese Noblewoman in the Early 11th Century
- Designer Bookbinders UK Competition Becomes Biannual and Widens the Scope of the Admissible Projects
- Russian Marine Archaeologists Recovered an Intact 327-Year-Old Psalter from a Sunken Ship
- Femmes de Lettres: New Book Series to Release Works of Forgotten Female Authors
- This Year 2nd October is the #AskAnArchivist Day!
- Your Only Chance is Tomorrow: The 26th Ephemeral Exhibition of Decorative Binders in Paris
- Meghan Markle Reveals Her Experience in Bookbinding
- #BannedBooksWeek
- “Gutenberg & After” Exhibition at Princeton University Library Explores the Early Printed Books
- The French Post Issues a New Bookbinding-Themed Stamp
- Live Printing Experience – Skaryna Bible at the Moscow International Book Fair
- An Anime Series For Those Who Love Books and Bookmaking
- Tens of Thousands of Books Damaged or Destroyed by the Recent Flood in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia
- History of the Early Printed Book Fellowships for Foreigners in Antwerp, Belgium
- Line 31 in the Mesha Stele is Restored, Confirming a Biblical Story
- Helvetica Now: Refreshed for the Modern Age
- Reading and Education Instead of Traditional Ways of Punishment for Juvenile Offenders
- Attention All Printers: Your Jobs Do Not Exist (At Least Not in the US)
- Sophie Turner Confessed to Taking a Scroll From the Game of Thrones Set
- Georgian-Arabic Palimpsest Found During Digitization of Medieval Manuscripts in Dagestan
- One Book One Bronx: One Stereotype at a Time
- 1,200-Year-Old Bible Taken in Custody by Turkish Police
- Celebrity Patrons Save “House of Horrors” Bookstore
- £42.5k – £350,000 – The most expensive books in Britain are being put up for sale!
- Yehuda Miklaf, An interesting read
- Indian Bookbinding Scam, New Delhi
- Category: Papermaking
- 3D-Printed Mold – Making Paper with the Japanese Wave Pattern
- Making Shaped Paper with Shaped Papermaking Molds
- Enchanting Drawings on My Handmade Paper
- Available Now: Molds for Paper of Custom Shapes
- Cotton with 1% Elastane – Would that Affect the Paper Made Out of It?
- How Do You Shred Your Cotton T-Shirts?
- Why Didn’t I Make My Papermaking Mould This Way Right From the Beginning?
- Ancient Tradition of Handmade Korean Paper Meets Modern Art
- Category: Printing
- Category: Printing Press
- iBB Podcast #12.2 – Ivan Gulkov – Workshop Tour and Show & Tell
- iBB Podcast #12.1 – Ivan Gulkov – Being a Hobbyist Printer Today and in the 19th Century
- 1.5-Square-Meter Undercover Communist Printing House from 1905 – Bookish Talk #4
- Beautiful Decorated Initials of a 17th-Century Dutch Bible
- Printers’ Marks: A Chapter in the History of Typography
- Letterpress Fishes from Japan
- Pressing Matters – a New Magazine for Printmakers (and Curious Bystanders)
- Category: Study
- The Book as a Canvas: Deep Mapping with Accordion Books
- Category: Schools
- Category: American Academy of Bookbinding
- Category: Newcastle Bookbinding Group
- Category: Ottawa School of Art
- Category: Tools
- iBB Podcast #17.3 – Dimitris Koutsipetsidis – Workshop Tour and Bookbinding Tools Dimitris Makes
- iBB Podcast #16.2 – Peter Geraty – More Bindings! Workshop Tour
- iBB Podcast #14 – Holiday Special – Rita Udina, Mark Cockram, and Ingeir Djuvik
- Using iBookBinding’s Corner Cutting Jigs
- New Huge Section Punching Tool with Lots of New Perks from iBookBinding
- Updated Simple Sewing Frame
- iBookBinding Starts Sales of a New Item: Plexiglas Book Cradle
- Visiting Nautilus Boekbinderij – Bookbinding Studio of Eliane Gomes in Haarlem, the Netherlands
- All the Things I Use as Bookbinding Weighs
- iBookBinding Book Scanning Frame: Now For Miniature Books
- Just Can’t Stop Buying Guillotine Paper Cutters!
- 3d-Printing a Handle for a Soviet Kamaz Bookbinding Press
- Wooden Tools Are Returning to Our Store For a Limited Time!
- 3D-Printed Spine Rounding Tool
- 3D-Printed Corner Cutting Tool
- Using a 3d-Printed Bonefolder
- Looking for Bookbinding Tool Catalogues
- Massive Update at Our Bookbinding Tools Shop
- Studying Gold Tooling – Third Lesson
- Soviet Bookbinder’s Heirloom
- Black Friday Discount on Bookbinding Equipment at our Etsy store
- Quick and Dirty Box Making Jig
- Category: 3d-Printed Tools
- Magnetic Corner Clamps for Boxmaking Got Reviewed by Darryn from DAS Bookbinding
- Boxmaking Clamps for Miniature Books’ Boxes
- Crafting Protective Packaging with Recycled Paper for Delivery of Fragile Items
- My Impressions of the Boekkunstbeurs 2019 in Leiden
- New Item: Holder for Tombow Glue
- More Sizes of 3d-Printed Bookbinder’s Gauges/Straightedges From iBookBinding
- Lower Shipping Prices, Updated Corner Cutting Jigs, Wove Pattern Papermaking Moulds and Other News From Our Etsy Store
- Category: Boxmaking
- Category: Corner Cutting Jig
- Category: Exhibiting
- Category: Hole Punching Cradle
- iBookBinding’s Section Punching Tool in Action
- Customer-Driven Innovation at iBookBinding
- Longer Signature Punching Tool. As in Folio Long
- Our New Punching Tools Are Stealing the Thunder from the Corner Cutting Jigs!
- Signature Punching Tool with an Awl Guide — a New Item in iBookBinding Shop
- Collapsible Punching Cradle By Missy Bosch Studio
- Category: Presses
- Category: Rounding Tool
- Category: Rulers and Straight Edges
- Category: Sewing Frame
- Category: Weights
- Category: Tutorials
- Introducing the Pianel Binding by Ben Elbel – Bookish Talk #8
- iBB Podcast #5.1 – Katy Savelyeva @KatyEbru. Becoming a Marbler / Marbling Demonstration
- iBB Podcast #1. Ben Elbel from Elbel Libro. Part 2 – Tutorials, New Book Structures and Q&A
- Digitized Book: Bookbinding for Beginners (J. Kay, 1931)
- Lacunose: Painting with Leather and Making Clouds
- Corner Cutting Jigs and Where to Find Them
- Category: @iBookBinding
- Category: Bookbinding
- Category: Boxmaking
- Category: Endbands
- Category: How Not To...
- Category: Paper Marbling
- Category: Video Tutorials
- This Short Video Answers All Major Questions About Our Corner Cutting Jigs
- My Teenage Daughter Made a YouTube Video About Making Paper and I Love It!
- Making a Phase Box in 5 Minutes
- Tutorial: Sewing an Endband On One Core in Two Colors
- Book Conservation Videos and Tutorials by Sherif Afifi
- Watch Run-Up Gilt Back* Gold Leaf Tooling
- How to Make Starch Paste Using Microwave
- Sewing an Endband on One Core — Video Tutorial
- Bookbinding Gluing and Adhesive Tutorials
- Making Hardback Book Covers – Video Tutorials
- Making and Sewing Headbands – Video Tutorials
- A ‘Mini’ BookBinding Documentary – The Creation Process
- Sewing the Coptic Stitch Style – Video
- Bookbinding Sewn with Chord – Classic Style,Video Playlist
- Japanese Binding in Boards Video – Part 2
- Japanese Binding in Boards Video – Part 1
- Category: Workshops
- An Answer to a Dreaded Question. “Just Do a Workshop” — Is It Really That Simple?
- Online Bookbinding Workshop: Long-Stitch Binding with Stubs for Single Pages, Sunday, the 6th of May, 2018
- Boring Bookbinding with Kids
- Teaching Bookbinding in Just One Hour (or Even Less)
- Tagging a Cover Bird with Gold — My Second Gold Tooling Experience
Layouts
Events
- "Gutenberg & After" Exhibition at Princeton University Library Explores the Early Printed Books
- "Lord Peckover's Lost Library" Exhibit
- UK’s National Trust Exhibits Rare Books in a New Light
- Writing: Making Your Mark - Exhibition at the British Library
- 1st Artist Book Festival (1er Festival de Libro de Artista)
- Burning Books
- 3rd International Designer Bookbinders Bookbinding Competition Exhibition
- 3rd International Designer Bookbinders Bookbinding Competition Exhibition
- 3rd International Designer Bookbinders Bookbinding Competition Exhibition
- 3rd International Designer Bookbinders Bookbinding Competition Exhibition
- Harry Potter: A History of Magic
Series
Event Location
- Blickling Estate
- British Library PACCAR Gallery
- Dublin Castle
- Goethe-Institut Chile
- Library of Birmingham
- North Bennet Street School
- Peckover House and Garden
- St Bride Foundation
- The Ellen and Leonard Milberg Gallery
- Weston Library, Oxford
Event Organizer
- British Library PACCAR Gallery
- Designer Bookbinders
- Goethe-Institut
- National Trust
- Scheide Library
- The Office of Public Works
