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Bookbinder's Workshop/ Live Streams

Workshop Tour with Tom McEwan [iBB Live #64]

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Tom McEwan, a Scottish bookbinder and bookbinding teacher, has been a guest on our podcast and live stream a couple of times already. But both times, we focused on books. This time, however, we decided to talk more about Tom’s studio—especially since there’s a great reason to do that: Tom recently moved to a new workshop!

We are streaming on Saturday, 20th of July, at 12:00 BST (7 AM EDT, 13:00 CET, 21:00 ACT). Please join us live!

Don’t worry, though, we will definitely talk about books as well 🙂

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2022.10.05 - iBB Live #29 - Armina Ghazaryan - Ghent Industrie Museum - YouTube

Belgium/ History of Printing/ Live Streams/ Museums

Returning to the Museum of Industry (Ghent) with Armina Ghazaryan [iBB Live #29]

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Industrie Museum in Ghent has a wonderful printing history collection!

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We’ve discussed the collection on our live stream before, but this time we decided to have a professional comment on what is exhibited there. There are several amazing professionals working with the printing equipment in the Museum of Industry, and Armina Ghazaryan is one of them.

As usual, if you join during the live stream, you’d be able to send us your questions, and we will do our best to answer them.

We are streaming this Wednesday at 11:00 CET (19:00 ACT). This time, we are going live during the European morning so that our viewers from the Eastern Hemisphere can join us.

If you are not able to join us live, the recording will be available right after the stream!

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Industrie Museum: https://www.industriemuseum.be/en

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2022.02.09 - iBB Live #16 - YouTube

Book Sculpting/ Highlights/ Live Streams

Book Sculptures, Type Sculptures – Is It OK? [iBB Live #16]

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A set of photos I’ve made at a flea market in Paris initiated a heated discussion. And no, not the photo from the preview. That’s the work of Guy Laramée. What I found, was an object made with old wooden type and metal printing cliches. I even bought one because I like the idea. I liked it much more than any other samples of art made with similar elements that I’ve seen before.

The most upset were the people who are working with printing presses. Not all of them, though. But some offered very harsh comments that in my opinion went overboard.

And that’s the main theme for the discussion during our next live stream! Besides that, as usual, we are talking about exhibitions. bookish objects, there is some news, and maybe something else.

Join us at 17:00 CET (11 AM EST). This isn’t a regularly scheduled live stream, so we are not switching time this Wednesday and we are going live during the European evening so that our viewers from the Americas can join us.

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2021.10.27 - iBB Live #9 - YouTube

Archival Work, Book Repair and Restoration/ Highlights/ Live Streams

Representing Human-Skin Bindings in Design Bookbinding [iBB Live #9]

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This time we do not have a main theme for our live stream. However, we have several smaller themes each one of which is equally interesting in our opinion.

Firstly, expanding slipcase competition held by the Bookbinding out of the box project is soon to publish the final results. But you still have some time to vote for the best entry!

Next, there’s a virtual exhibition of design bindings of Megan Rosenbloom’s, Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin. And we are going to show you and discuss these bindings!

Then, the new Dune movie is finally released in the US and there are some bookish objects there, if there’s time, we’d like to discuss them with you!

There are some other things to talk about. Pavel visited several exhibitions, and Stepan has some interesting bookish objects to show. We’ll see what we can fit into 90 minutes =)

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2021.09.15 - iBB Live #6 - The Most Expensive Books in the World

Highlights/ History/ Live Streams/ Manuscripts/ Medieval Bookbinding

The Most Expensive Books in the World [iBB Live #6]

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There’s a piece of news that triggered us to discuss this topic. A medieval Hebrew prayer book is expected to be sold for about $6m at Sotheby’s. However, we want to approach this theme thoroughly. Many aspects influence the value of the book. Moreover, some very expensive books were never sold and bought or were sold a very long time ago, so their monetary value has to be settled differently. The modern world also brings some pretty unexpected angles to this discussion. For one, can NFTs have any relation to the market of books sales?

As usual, we also plan to discuss some other news as well. And maybe introduce a new part to our stream and talk about the representation of books in popular art. We want to begin with the bookish objects of the Game of Thrones series. There are many things worth noting there!

Join us on Wednesday, 15th of September, at 12:00 CEST / 6:00 AM EDT (I know that’s a bit too early) / 20:00 ACT. We hope we’ll see some guests from Asia, Australia, and New Zealand!

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2021.09.01 - iBB Live #5 - Kievan Letter

Highlights/ History/ History of Writing/ Live Streams/ Manuscripts/ Medieval Bookbinding

Medieval Manuscripts from Russia and Rus’ [iBB Live #5]

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It’s probably time to switch to some other topics besides medieval manuscripts from Russia and Rus’, something that we’ve been discussing quite a lot during our live streams. But we’ve seen so much interesting stuff during this summer and want to share more of it with you!

The other thing is what’s known as the Kievan Letter – the first mention of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. And it’s written in Hebrew! We’ve discussed this, among many other things, with one of the guests of our podcast. That’s an episode that will probably be aired in October. But we are going to give you a short sneak peek.

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2021.08.20 - iBB Live #4 - Impressions from the Russian Trip

Highlights/ Live Streams

Manuscripts, Vintage, and Artists’ Books in Russia [iBB Live #4]

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We are going to recap some of the bookish things we’ve seen during these past few weeks while Stepan was visiting Russia. Museums, books markets, ancient manuscripts, artists’ books, and more!

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2021.08.07 - iBB Live #3

Highlights/ Live Streams

Searching for Bookish Things in Russia [iBB Live #3]

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After almost two years of separation, Pavel and Stepan, the hosts of iBookBinding’s podcast, have finally met on the same turf. In the past few days, they have visited a multitude of museums in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg and decided to discuss some bookish objects they found there.

Including but not limited to beeswax specimen books, books shaped in porcelain, book sculptures, bookish examples of futurism, and more!

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2021.07.23 - iBB Live #2 - Medieval Russian Manuscripts 3

Highlights/ History/ History of Writing/ Live Streams/ Manuscripts/ Medieval Bookbinding

Medieval Russian Manuscripts, News, and More! [iBB Live #2]

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During our second stream, we plan to discuss some medieval Russian manuscripts from collections of Novgorod museums and talk about some bookish news.

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00:00 – Beginning
01:42 – Medieval Russian manuscripts from Novgorod
08:30 – Glagolitic script
16:50 – Graffito describing the death of a knyaz
21:15 – Wax tablets
23:56 – How do all these objects survive in Novgorod’s soil?
36:27 – Birchwood manuscripts
44:35 – Codex manuscripts
1:11:05 – Bookish news (we know about the black scree, sorry!)
1:24:33 – News recap – this time with images!

2021.07.02 - iBB Live #1 - Tavolette di Biccherna 2

Exhibitions/ Highlights/ History/ History of Writing/ Live Streams

Amazing Medieval Book Covers from Siena – Tavolette di Biccherna [iBB Live #1]

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We are trying a new format. During this stream, we plan to talk about Pavel’s recent visit to an exhibition Siena in the early Renaissance’ that has opened a few days ago in Moscow. We will also discuss some iBookBinding news and probably answer some questions.

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00:00 – Beginning
01:27 – Tavolette di Biccherna
30:10 – iBookBinding news and tools
51:45 – Bookish news

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