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- 84 - Visiting Schmedt in Hamburg - The Producers of Many Amazing Bookbinding Tools! [iBB Podcast #29.1]
Aspects of running a bookbinder's supplies company as a family business Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynUZozrlMbc 🔴 Support iBookBinding! Become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Pledges start at only $1 / €1 / £1 per month. This summer, we had a chance to visit the headquarters of @Schmedt - The World of Bookbinding -- a well-known German producer and distributor of all things related to book craft! One of the reasons for our visit was to kickstart a partnership between iBookBinding and Schmedt. From now on, you can buy a selected line of iBookBinding tools in Schmedt's webshop. Specifically printed in the colors the customers of this German company are quite used to! =) In this video, we discuss the company's history, aspects of running a family business for several generations, finding a balance between selling to artisans and larger companies, and much more! In the second part of our talk, we continue this discussion and are invited for a tour of Schmedt's showroom and warehouse. Listen to this episode on: - Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ibookbinding - iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/ibookbinding-podcast/id1510257102 - Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGNsb3VkLmNvbS91c2Vycy9zb3VuZGNsb3VkOnVzZXJzOjgxNTMwMzAwNS9zb3VuZHMucnNz Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Schmedt: https://schmedt.com/ iBookBinding's tools in Schmedt's webshop: https://schmedt.com/brands/ibookbinding-tools/ 00:00 – Beginning 01:22 – How is it all begin - the history of the Schmedt family business 04:06 – Developing of The PräGnant machine - manual blocking press for one-off titles and name embossings 06:03 – Machine building’s part of the Schmedt’s business that started from a little workshop in the former stable 07:59 – Focus on the small bookbinders 09:35 – About trade binderies in Germany and other countries 11:37 – The International side of Schmedt’s business, participation in the printing equipment exhibition in Dusseldorf (The Drupa) 15:18 – The material part of business, starting webshop in 1997 17:20 – Modernization of the web shop nowadays 20:00 – Importance and advantage of personal presence in your own business processes 21:04 – The opportunities offered by the market in united Europe and worldwide 26:10 – Selling in small quantities of materials, the “hobby side” of the bookbinding market 27:34 – Business processes during the pandemic, the start of presenting machines via video calls 34:23 – Changes in perception and expectations from communication between sellers and clients nowadays 40:38 – Schmedt’s Machine’s display space in Hamburg 42:18 – Examples of digitally printed book edges
Thu, 20 Oct 2022 - 51min - 83 - Bookish Talk - SoB - Soundcloud
There's still time to send your binding! 🔴 Support iBookBinding! Become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Pledges start with only $1 / €1 / £1 per month. We discuss the upcoming International Competition with two people in charge of it: Amy Kitcherside and Talitha Wachtelborn, book professionals from the UK. You still have time to make a book and join the competition until the beginning of May. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/yKbN0iwaOdM Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ More info: https://www.facebook.com/SoBcompetition https://twitter.com/sobcompetition https://www.societyofbookbinders.com/ 00:00 – Beginning 00:16 – The International Bookbinding Competition of The Society of Bookbinders 02:24 – What are the Competition categories, and who are the Judges? 06:40 – Delivery of books, catalog 08:01 – Will the public be able to see books from the Competition? 09:02 – The periodicity of The Society of Bookbinders Competition and desynchronization with the Designer Bookbinders Competition, the difference between two competitions 10:55 – More about book categories: what is the book or the book arts? 14:49 – Is there a size criteria of the book for the Competition, few words about the cases 17:19 – If Talitha and Amy wanted to enter the Competition, which category did they choose? 18:16 – More about the Restoration category 19:42 – Will be in the Competition something that fits with the Tomorrow's Past concept (modern conservation bindings for antiquarian books)? 21:45 – How many books are expected? 22:41 – The Geography of participants 26:06 – More about Historic Binding category
Wed, 23 Mar 2022 - 32min - 82 - April 2022: Bookbinding Fair in Belgium - Talking to Tanja Rakic [Bookish Talk #30]
Come over to Sint-Niklaas on the 10th of April! 🔴 Support iBookBinding! Become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Pledges start with only $1 / €1 / £1 per month. This time on Bookish Talk, we discuss the upcoming Boekbindbeurs België with Tanja Rakic from the Dutch seller of all sorts of bookish stuff Boektotaal. They have picked up the bookbinding fair in Sint-Niklaas from the previous organizer late in 2019 but haven't had a chance to run it since. So that's the first time for them and the 24th time for the Belgian fair! Please come over to Sint-Niklaas on the 10th of April if you are anywhere near. And even if not, while most of the visitors come from Belgium, the Netherlands, France, and the UK, there always are people coming from even further away! Watch this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In3bjdZxWec Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Fair's website: https://www.boekbindbeurs.nl/en/content/sint-niklaas Boektotaal: https://www.boektotaal.nl/en/ 00:00 – Beginning 00:38 – How Boektotaal (store for bookbinders in Steenwijk, The Netherlands) become the organizer of the Bookbinders' Fair in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium 02:35 – Stepan's tour around Fair (April 2019) 06:06 – What is planned at the Fair this year? 07:25 – How many sellers would normally participate, and how many participants are expected this year? 08:26 – How long is the Fair, and how many people usually come? 10:03 – Boektotaal's representation at the Fair 10:40 – Who else will participate? Some names 13:03 – What was it like – organizing a Fair like this? 16:16 – The future plans for Boektotaal, a workshop for students in The Netherlands
Wed, 09 Mar 2022 - 21min - 81 - History and Modernity of Russian Artist's Books - Valerij Ledenev [iBB Podcast #28.1]
Clay book, book on wheels, a book inspired by Andrei Sakharov, and more! 🔴 Support iBookBinding! Become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Pledges start with only $1 / €1 / £1 per month. Pavel and I had a great opportunity to visit the library of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow and talk to its director Valerij Ledenev. He showed us some of the objects related to the history of the artist's books in Russia and walked us through the library's collection of modern artist's books. Including the objects from their Single Copy project, which aims to foster the development of the artist’s book. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uix5zig7OY Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Garage Museum of Contemporary Art: https://garagemca.org/en/ https://garagemca.org/en/programs/library 00:00 – Beginning 00:33 – Garage Museum of Contemporary Art Library's project "Single Copy" 01:50 – "Catalog of projects of art works in outer space. Planetary nebulae" by Rostan Tavasiev 06:59 – How the Collection of artistic books is displayed in the Museum's Library 07:45 – Book of the "DVR" Movement "The Age of Freedom" 12:14 – "The Whales inventory book of Bespamyatnykh S." by Sergey Bespamyatnykh 17:52 – Archives of the Garage Library 20:08 – What is the archival material and should be preserved 22:18 – One of the documents from the archive: the "Needle chair" made by the father of an artist Alexey Shchegolev with using son's old spray cans 24:24 – "The Fjord" by Ludmila Baronina – the "micro-museum" of an Artist in a book 28:32 – "The Journey of a red square" – the Leporello artistic book by Natalia Smolyanskaya 30:06 – Anton Gudkov's books with graphical works, "The Siberian mantra," "mail book" 37:18 – The book of street-art artist and Urban art researcher Igor Ponosov with fragments of advertising banners 41:10 – Evgeny Strelkov's book with the silk-screened prints on paper, onion skin paper, plastic, etc. referring to the Soviet atomic project and to the figure of Andrei Sakharov 45:35 – Six-meter hand drawn leporello book by Uliana Podkorytova 51:40 – Ceramic book by Mayana Nasybullova 55:25 – Musings about what we will leave as a legacy to the archaeologists of the future 01:02:46 – Curved book with wooden cover and star-shaped book by Andrey Olenev from "The Silence Workshop" 01:06:25 – What are Valery's ambitions and plans for this project?
Wed, 23 Feb 2022 - 1h 13min - 80 - Angaea Cuna: Working In a Makeshift Manner [Bookish Talk #29]
We return to Angaea Cuna for a workshop tour and to talk about more bookish things! 🔴 Support iBookBinding! Become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Pledges start with only $1 / €1 / £1 per month. We have already published two videos with our talks with Angaea Cuna, a bookbinder of Filipino descent who's residing and working in Hawaii. In this video, we discuss chemicals, bioarchitecture, the balance of life and death, and, yes, Angaea takes us for a tour of her studio. You can find this and the previous episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/c/iBookBinding/search?query=Angaea%20Cuna Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Angaea's projects: https://www.instagram.com/gaeabound/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjNP3Hajfp2K55PR3rQ9HGQ 00:00 – Beginning 00:28 – Short tour around Angaea’s studio 05:07 – Working in a makeshift manner 05:53 – Palm leave books 09:59 – Angaea’s videomaking and other art 13:04 – Bookbinding’s lessons for kids and comparison this experience with teaching adults 23:16 – Angaea’s bioarchitectural classes for kids 28:11 – Changes in book conservation: using less invasive materials and chemicals 30:08 – Mummies and use of chemicals through the history 38:06 – Understanding the balance of life and death that comes from connection with nature
Sat, 19 Feb 2022 - 43min - 79 - Kate Holland: Workshop Tour [iBB Podcast #27.2]
The tour of Kate Holland's amazing studio and more! 🔴 Support iBookBinding! Become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Pledges start with only $1 / €1 / £1 per month. In the second part of our talk with Kate Holland, we discussed education for bookbinders and the influence of art and craft on the economy. But most of the time we spend going around Kate's workshop and discussing tools, materials, and techniques. You can watch the video of this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKPuwxUTxkM Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Kate Holland: Website: https://katehollandbooks.co.uk/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katehollandbook/ 00:00 – Beginning 00:30 – Is there a chance for the appearance of long-term bookbinding education programs? 05:50 – The influence of the Arts on the economy 07:32 – Therapeutic side and the mental health aspect of the Arts and Crafts 11:21 – West Dean College of Arts and Conservation 15:13 – Bookbinding courses for kids 20:24 – Workshop tour 28:46 – The prototype of the book’s display case and the miniature of “A Beetle Assembly” by Jenny Whittle, bound by Kate Holland 30:52 – Continuation of the tour around the studio: more books, tools, etc. 35:18 – Lesson to the young bookbinders: “Don’t use a press like this” 37:39 – Dyeing leather 41:16 – Philip Smith’s old hand guillotine 41:43 – More materials and gadgets 49:15 – “Make your workshop as big as you can.” 50:59 – Musings about “the Zoom-skill” nowadays
Sun, 13 Feb 2022 - 54min - 78 - Tom McEwan: Bookbinding in Scotland [Bookish Talk #28]
We return to Tom McEwan to discuss the state of bookbinding in Scotland! 🔴 Support iBookBinding! Become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Pledges start with only $1 / €1 / £1 per month. Watch the video version of this episode on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/49HZssNznBY Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Tom's projects: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tmcewan/ Website: http://mcewan.co.uk/tm/ 00:00 – Beginning 00:44 – Earlier career 01:28 – Bookbinding in Scotland 08:21 – Teaching bookbinding in Scotland during the pandemic 10:38 – Bookbinding activities in the Glasgow School of Art 13:12 – Musings about when the design binding appeared and how to define the term “design binding.” 19:08 – Inspiration from surroundings landscape and nature of Scotland 25:13 – Influence of the previous profession: from the sculptor to bookbinder 27:26 – Titling the bindings 28:28 – Artistic techniques which help to show the orientation of the book
Wed, 09 Feb 2022 - 31min - 77 - Design Bindings of the Booker Prize 2021 - Tom McEwan [Bookish Talk #27]
We continue our Booker Prize bindings series with Tom McEwan 🔴 Support iBookBinding! Become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Pledges start with only $1 / €1 / £1 per month. This time we return to our Booker Prize bindings series to discuss the binding of A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam which was created by Tom McEwan. Tom is an award-winning bookbinder and the first Scottish guest on our podcast. It was a great pleasure to discuss his creative process. We have also recorded another episode of the podcast with Tom where we discuss his career and some aspects of being a bookbinder in Scotland. This video will be published later. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21f0IUufTfQ Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Tom's projects: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tmcewan/ Website: http://mcewan.co.uk/tm/ 00:00 – Beginning 00:38 – Tom’s bindings made for the Booker Prize shortlist 01:38 – A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam 04:36 – How the sheets for the Booker Prize bindings arrived 05:20 – Beginning to work on the edge decoration 05:52 – Using the sheets of blank paper to fill in the shoulders of the book while pressing 06:33 – Where to start: design concept or directly binding 07:53 – Working on the edge 08:43 – Using gold foil for gold tooling 09:19 – Dyeing leather for the cover 14:53 – How many layers of color does Tom usually apply to his design bindings? 17:03 – How long does the first stage (dyeing, silk screen printing) of work takes? Using the hair dryer to speed up the process 19:42 – The finished binding 24:41 – Tom’s favorite part of the bookbinding process 27:42 – How does Tom know that his design is finished? 30:42 – Has Tom’s taste changed through the years? 32:00 – What if other people modify your bindings? Collaborations in bookbinding 34:42 – Tom’s attitude toward the boxes for the bindings 36:01 – Tom’s approach to making bindings for the Booker Prize shortlist 40:36 - Difference between binding old/famous and modern/brand new books 45:01 – Where in the world you can find Tom’s bindings
Fri, 04 Feb 2022 - 48min - 76 - Experimenting With Book Structures: Ben Elbel [Bookish Talk #26]
Do some experimental bookbinding! 🔴 Support iBookBinding! Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Pledges start with only $1 / €1 / £1 per month. We return to Ben Elbel to talk about experimental bookbinding and unusual book structures. While this episode was recorded a while ago, it stays absolutely actual. Especially as Ben was named one of the most inspiring bookish people of 2021 by the guests of our podcast! Watch this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB4KPoBnsKE Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Ben's projects: Elbel Libro - https://www.elbel-libro.com/ Bookbinding Out of the Box - https://bookbindingoutofthebox.com/ https://www.instagram.com/bookbindingoutofthebox/ 00:00 - Beginning 00:25 - Space for creativity in the bookbinding process 02:40 - Ben’s experiments with book structure. Are there any unsolved problems and ways to improve the book’s structure? 06:43 - Experimenting as a way to give personality to a book 08:32 - Sticking to traditions vs. doing something completely new 10:33 - Places to study modern bookbinding 12:27 - Competitions in the field of experimental and innovational bookbinding 14:15 - Doing experimental bookbinding without loss of quality 15:11 - The bibliophile pleasure of traditional bookbindings
Mon, 31 Jan 2022 - 20min - 75 - Talking to Kate Holland About the Designer Bookbinders UK Competition [iBB Podcast #27.1]
Designer Bookbinders UK Competition is well known all over the world 🔴 Support iBookBinding! Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Pledges start with only $1 / €1 / £1 per month. This time we invited Kate Holland, an award-winning bookbinder from the UK, who is also one of the people in charge of the Designer Bookbinders UK Competition. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCSGL6QI9Js Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ 00:00 – Beginning 01:16 – Designer Bookbinders: one of the foremost societies dedicated to the craft of fine bookbinding 02:28 – Being a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders 06:36 – Designer Bookbinders as a worldwide society 07:13 – DB UK Bookbinding Competition: Set Book 08:59 – The concept of “The winning binding” in bookbinding competitions 11:57 – Book arts competitions in the UK that have more acceptance towards the experimental structures 13:01 – DB UK Bookbinding Competition participants: who they are? (geography, gender, age) 15:55 – How the Pandemic affected DB UK Bookbinding Competition 20:44 – The sponsors of DB UK Bookbinding Competition 23:29 – The importance of organizing bookbinding competitions 24:40 – How long has the Competition and the Designer Bookbinders Society been in existence, and how did they change over time? 26:38 – Interaction of Designer Bookbinders society with the press and social media 28:50 – Postponing the Competition and the future schedule 30:05 – Being the participant of bookbinding competitions and the social aspects of being a Fellow of Bookbinders society (such as events) 33:58 – Kate’s personal experience of taking part in bookbinding competitions 36:56 – To follow or not to follow the news in bookbinding world: the influence of other’s works on an artistic view 38:03 – Sources of inspiration for work 39:11 – Current Licentiates of the Designer Bookbinders society 41:07 – Ways to attract new licentiates to the Society 43:26 – Kate’s bookbinding course structuring approach 45:13 – Difficulties of teaching the design aspects of bookbinding and the importance of having a life experience to develop an artistic view 49:34 – Ways to collect ideas and inspiration for designs
Fri, 28 Jan 2022 - 53min - 74 - iBB Holiday Special - Part 2 / Mark Cockram & Richard Minsky [iBB Podcast #26.2]
We invited several guests to discuss the departing year. 🔴 Support iBookBinding! Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Pledges start with only $1 / €1 / £1 per month. For this Holiday Special episode of the iBookBinding's podcast, we invited Mark Cockram, Kate Holland, and Richard Minsky to talk about the outgoing 2021 and incoming 2022, drink some wine, and have a couple of laughs. And, of course, we talked about some old and new bookish projects and other things. This is the first part of our talk. For the second part, Kate had to leave us so we continued our discussion with Mark and Richard. It will be published a bit later, so stay tuned! A year ago, for our previous Holiday Special, we have invited Mark Cockram, Ingeir Djuvik, and Rita Udina. You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/c/iBookBinding/search?query=Holiday%20Special Watch the video version of this episode on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/WjQVAshOeYo Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ To follow Mark Cockram's projects, use the links below: https://www.instagram.com/markbookartist/ https://twitter.com/markbookartist https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbuiGvf4CuYNSV6LNL7nu5g https://www.facebook.com/mark.cockram.9 Studio 5 Book Arts http://studio5bookbindingandarts.blogspot.com/ https://www.facebook.com/Studio5Bookarts/ Follow Kate Holland: Website: https://katehollandbooks.co.uk/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katehollandbook/ Find out more about Richard Minsky: - https://minsky.com/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Minsky - https://centerforbookarts.org/people/richard-minsky - https://web.library.yale.edu/arts/special-collections/interviews-with-richard-minsky 00:00 – Beginning 01:02 – The issue with the absence of a pathway for people to serious bookbinding and book arts in the UK nowadays 03:38 – Importance of being an optimistic person when you work in a creative field 09:15 – Dimitris Koutsipetsidis 11:45 – Difference in the situation with book arts in the USA and the UK 13:42 – Is there any interest in collecting arts/books among young people? 16:58 – Book arts in the USSR in the 1920-1930s 20:34 – Should the world expect new roaring 20s? 27:24 – Does the modern world have the potential for revolution in art? 29:30 – Needs in collectors in bookbinding/book arts world 35:58 – Bookbinding books at libraries 44:00 – Presence of academic programs that have book art galleries in the USA 48:39 – Richard highlights some young book artists from the USA (Colette Fu) 50:59 – Book arts in Asia 53:45 – Richard’s news from NFT world 58:48 – In memory of Derek Hood and Jeff Clemens
Tue, 11 Jan 2022 - 1h 16min - 73 - iBB Holiday Special - Part 1 / Mark Cockram, Kate Holland & Richard Minsky [iBB Podcast #26.1]
We invited several guests to discuss the departing year. 🔴 Support iBookBinding! Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Pledges start with only $1 / €1 / £1 per month. For this Holiday Special episode of the iBookBinding's podcast, we invited Mark Cockram, Kate Holland, and Richard Minsky to talk about the outgoing 2021 and incoming 2022, drink some wine, and have a couple of laughs. And, of course, we talked about some old and new bookish projects and other things. This is the first part of our talk. For the second part, Kate had to leave us so we continued our discussion with Mark and Richard. It will be published a bit later, so stay tuned! A year ago, for our previous Holiday Special, we have invited Mark Cockram, Ingeir Djuvik, and Rita Udina. You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/c/iBookBinding/search?query=Holiday%20Special Listen to this episode on: - Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ibookbinding - iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/ibookbinding-podcast/id1510257102 - Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGNsb3VkLmNvbS91c2Vycy9zb3VuZGNsb3VkOnVzZXJzOjgxNTMwMzAwNS9zb3VuZHMucnNz Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ To follow Mark Cockram's projects, use the links below: https://www.instagram.com/markbookartist/ https://twitter.com/markbookartist https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbuiGvf4CuYNSV6LNL7nu5g https://www.facebook.com/mark.cockram.9 Studio 5 Book Arts http://studio5bookbindingandarts.blogspot.com/ https://www.facebook.com/Studio5Bookarts/ Follow Kate Holland: Website: https://katehollandbooks.co.uk/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katehollandbook/ Find out more about Richard Minsky: - https://minsky.com/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Minsky - https://centerforbookarts.org/people/richard-minsky - https://web.library.yale.edu/arts/special-collections/interviews-with-richard-minsky 00:00 – Beginning 07:10 – Summing up the results of this bookish year: workshops, projects, etc. 10:41 – Richard's patent of pop-up display apparatus and discussion of how books should be displayed 15:31 – Importance of proper presentation of your work, marketing in bookbinding in comparison with other arts 19:23 – Is the concept of a book more than an intellectual process, or it's "just a pretty thing"? 21:29 – Richard's plans for the next year and the impact of the pandemic on work; the triple slipcase for the first uncensored edition of Decameron made by Richard 25:39 – Prudishness and censorship: from the first editions of books to YouTube 28:37 – Kate's big project of this past year: the first edition of Breakfast at Tiffany's covered in diamonds 30:12 – Mark's plans for the next year incl. plans to produce a book dedicated to his censored works 34:39 – Teaching plans 37:27 – Opportunities to study bookbinding in different countries, the importance of affordable education 40:05 – The importance of learning bookbinding in person, next to a teacher 42:37 – Richard's teaching work, critique workshops 47:14 – The largest project in terms of size done by Mark: two books around 60-80 kilos each 52:41 – Richards's largest work: North American Hand Papermaking, 1976 – when a book becomes a walk-in sculpture 59:49 – Richard's collection of American decorated publishers' bindings
Mon, 27 Dec 2021 - 1h 07min - 72 - Julie Auzillon: Début / Reliure origata / Reliure à tige [iBB en français #1.1]
This episode is in French. You can find its video version with English subtitles on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9hbEFzWi7w 🔴 Soutenez iBookBinding! Devenez un patron: https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Le montant de contribution commence par $1 / €1 / £1 par mois seulement. Aujourd’hui nous publions le premier épisode de la version française du podcast iBookBinding. Notre présentatrice Anna Markova a parlé avec la relieure française Julie Auzillon, créatrice des techniques uniques de la reliure, la reliure Origata et la version originale de la reliure à tiges. Cette vidéo est une première partie de l’interview. Nous planifions publier la seconde partie en janvier. Si vous voulez voir plus d’épisodes de notre podcast, iBookBinding est à la recherche des bénévoles qui peuvent aider avec la correction des sous-titres français. Écoutez cet épisode sur: - Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ibookbinding - iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/ibookbinding-podcast/id1510257102 - Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGNsb3VkLmNvbS91c2Vycy9zb3VuZGNsb3VkOnVzZXJzOjgxNTMwMzAwNS9zb3VuZHMucnNz La présentatrice du podcast est Anna Markova https://www.instagram.com/annamarkova_bookhist/ Réalisé pour vous par iBookBinding. Ressources et informations pratiques sur reliure: http://www.iBookBinding.com Vous pouvez poser vos questions aux futures invités sur: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ En savoir plus sur Julie Auzillon: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/julieauzillon/ Website — https://julieauzillon.com/ YouTube — https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgUEWgSybuOcmJ2ax_sCSEQ Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/julie.auzillon.3 00:00 – Début 03:56 – Les études à l’Ecole Estienne et le commencement du travail en tant que relieure 08:14 – Les origins des techniques de Julie. La manque stimule la créativité. 10:25 – Les procédés de Julie 11:29 – La toute première reliure Origata – le livre de recettes de grand-maman 15:09 – Fait semblant d’être simple, mais difficile à faire 18:44 – Les relations de l’Origata avec la culture japonnaise 20:21 – Le succès du manuel sur Internet 25:43 – Les approches de Julie concernant le travail avec du papier 29:54 – La réapparition du cuir dans les reliures 35:12 – L’introduction de la reliure à tiges 36:21 – La reliure à tiges: démonstration 38:19 – Le dos de la reliure 40:23 – Le côté artistique 43:45 – Quelle est la durée optimale d’un programme d’études sur la reliure ?
Fri, 24 Dec 2021 - 45min - 71 - Design Bindings of the Booker Prize 2021 - Kate Holland [Bookish Talk #24]
Kate Holland's binding of “The Promise” by Damon Galgut 🔴 Support iBookBinding! Become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Pledges start with only $1 / €1 / £1 per month. For the second part of the series dedicated to the bindings of the 2021 Book Prize, we invited Kate Holland, to talk about her binding of “The Promise” by Damon Galgut -- this year's winner. Among other things, we touch upon the subject of using other people's creative products in your bindings and the matters of respecting the copyright. Watch the video version of this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9nwgaYCkcM Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Kate Holland: Website: https://katehollandbooks.co.uk/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katehollandbook/ 00:00 – Beginning 01:34 – “The Promise” by Damon Galgut, the winner of the 2021 Booker Prize 03:49 – Kate’s binding: connection of the dramatic landscape on the cover with the plot of the book 05:37 – Photographs used inside the doublures made by Gideon Mendel (from his series “The Struggle”) 07:44 – Copyrighting and credits in bookbinding 09:55 – Bookbinding description: a place for credits and useful information that also can be used by feature conservators 11:36 – Hand tooling lightning on the cover with foil 16:08 – Mono printed grass on the cover 17:59 – Hand tooling tree on the cover with matte black foil 19:32 – Hand-colored book edges 20:12 – How long does the process of binding a book for the Booker Prize goes 22:00 – Kate’s experience from several Booker bindings 22:56 – The financial side of the Booker Prize binding 24:03 – The reputation and the honor to do the book bindings for the Booker Prize 25:15 – Can a DB fellow refuse to do a binding for the Booker Prize? 28:01 – Current state of Kate’s work: commissions, teaching, etc.
Wed, 22 Dec 2021 - 30min - 70 - Workshop Tour and Show & Tell - Richard Minsky [iBB Podcast #25.3]
Workshop tour and show & tell by Richard Minsky 🔴 Support iBookBinding! Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Pledges start with only $1 / €1 / £1 per month. Here is the last part of our talk with Richard Minsky, a bookbinder and book artist from the US. Richard takes us for a tour of his studio, shows us some tools and contraptions. The rest of the time we spend discussing some of his striking bindings: more than a dozen of books in total. You can find the previous chapters of this talk here: https://www.youtube.com/c/iBookBinding/search?query=Richard%20Minsky Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Find out more about Richard Minsky: - https://minsky.com/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Minsky - https://centerforbookarts.org/people/richard-minsky - https://web.library.yale.edu/arts/special-collections/interviews-with-richard-minsky 00:00 – Beginning 00:51 – Tour of the Richard's studio 13:08 – Richard's bindings on social issues 13:30 – "The Crisis of Democracy" bound by Minsky in 1980; sheepskin, gold, barbed wire 17:40 – "The Geography of Hunger," bound in 1988; "Friendly plastic," acrylic, endpapers with food and dog food labels 18:43 – "Tragedy and Hope" (a History of the World in Our Time) bound in 1988 with kidskin vellum tanned by Richard 21:21 – "Missile Envy," bound in 1988; installation at the Zabriskie Gallery in New York, with live rockets 22:27 – "Laying Waste" book 23:50 – "Holy Terror" books 25:45 – "The Biological Time Bomb" bound with live explosives, batteries, timer, etc. 27:21 – More books 29:05 – "Freedom of Choice" (Three Poems of Love and Death by Lucie Brock-Broido), 2009; the electric chair installation 34:54 – "Pop Delusions – a House of Credit Cards" bound in 2012 – a Shrine for the 1852 Edition of Charles Mackay's Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds 37:36 – Reliquary for the Ashes of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, 1993 – a work that was stolen; and other works from the United States Constitution Series 42:25 - "The Bill of Rights," limited edition set of 10 Amendments
Sat, 18 Dec 2021 - 1h 05min - 69 - Design Bindings of the Booker Prize 2021 - Mark Cockram [Bookish Talk #24]
Every year, six Designer Bookbinders' fellows are chosen to create six unique bindings for the books shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Last year, we have published a series of videos with bookbinders who took part in that project. We return to that theme this year with six new bindings. Our first guest is Mark Cockram with his binding for "No One Is Talking About This" by Patricia Lockwood. We hope to see the authors of all six bindings made for the Booker Prize in 2021, and currently, we have already recorded two videos and preparing to record two more. We'll see how it goes early in January. Mark Cockram is a regular guest on our podcast. You can find other talks with him here: https://www.youtube.com/c/iBookBinding/search?query=Mark%20Cockram You can watch the video of this episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvtVv8qlxL4 Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ To follow Mark's projects, use the links below: https://www.instagram.com/markbookartist/ https://twitter.com/markbookartist https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbuiGvf4CuYNSV6LNL7nu5g https://www.facebook.com/mark.cockram.9 Studio 5 Book Arts http://studio5bookbindingandarts.blogspot.com/ https://www.facebook.com/Studio5Bookarts/ 00:00 – Beginning 00:34 – Backstage of the binding processes for The Booker Prize shortlist 03:59 – Reading and interacting with the text while working 07:04 – "No One Is Talking About This" by Patricia Lockwood 08:03 – Difference between a "normal reading" and reading when you are looking for a visual metaphor for binding 10:15 – From a rough sketch to finished binding: how the process begins 12:47 – Difficulties with finding materials for collage on the cover of "No One Is Talking About This" 16:29 – Hiding a secret work from students and visitors of the Mark's studio 18:20 – How quotes from the book become parts of a collage as a metaphor of communication on the Internet 24:25 – Some technical moments of binding "No One Is Talking About This" by Patricia Lockwood 29:50 – The chicken or the egg: making a box for the binding 32:15 – Working on the book's edges 34:21 – The presentation of The Booker Prize 2021 38:11 – Collaboration of the Booker Prize and bookbinders, the difference between binding old/famous and modern/brand new books 45:05 – Interacting with the author of the text during the binding process
Sun, 12 Dec 2021 - 52min - 68 - Bookish News: Medieval Physician’s Girdle Book Sold for £95,000 [Nov 24 - Dec 07, 2021]
In this newscast, we are discussing a couple of medieval books and finds, a digitized astronomical manuscript from Uzbekistan, and a 20,000-book library, that you can buy with a mansion attached =) Watch this newscast on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw8MxBT5C_M Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ 00:00 – Beginning 00:13 – For Sale: Medieval Physician’s “Girdle Book” 14:18 – A library of 20,000 books for sale, along with a mansion, west of Salisbury 16:15 – Fragment of lost 12th-century epic poem found in another book’s binding 19:49 – Ancient astronomy manuscript resurrected by Uzbek heritage initiative
Fri, 10 Dec 2021 - 31min - 67 - Bookbinding as an NFT? Discussion with Richard Minsky [iBB Podcast #25.2]
In this second part of our talk with Richard Minsky, a bookbinder and book artist from the US, we cover a wide variety of topics: from his early works to living in a virtual world We also spend quite a few time discussing NFTs and how bookbindings can be associated with these non-fungible tokens. In the other two parts, Richard talks and shows more of his bindings, digital world, politics, history, and takes us for a tour of his studio. Stay tuned, they will be published in the upcoming weeks! You can find the videos here: https://www.youtube.com/c/iBookBinding/search?query=Richard%20Minsky In the preview, you can see Richard's binding of It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis. You can read more about it here: https://www.minsky.com/ItCantHappenHere.htm Listen to this episode on: - Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ibookbinding - iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/ibookbinding-podcast/id1510257102 - Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zb3VuZGNsb3VkLmNvbS91c2Vycy9zb3VuZGNsb3VkOnVzZXJzOjgxNTMwMzAwNS9zb3VuZHMucnNz Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Find out more about Richard Minsky: - https://minsky.com/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Minsky - https://centerforbookarts.org/people/richard-minsky - https://web.library.yale.edu/arts/special-collections/interviews-with-richard-minsky 00:00 – Beginning 00:21 – Richard’s mid-seventies art 01:33 – First book that Richard sold to an art dealer in 1971: bookbinding version of an abstract expressionism 02:09 – “Pettigrew’s history of Egyptian Mummies” bound by Richard Minsky with linen, 1973: first “Material meets metaphor” work 03:48 – The story about Richard’s book “The Birds of North America” with pheasant skin and Nigerian goatskin 15:28 – Second Life universe; working in an artificial virtual environment; interests towards computers, Internet, and related technologies 22:26 – “The ArtWorld Market” – Richard’s avatar in the Second Life universe 25:25 – Second Life nowadays; the presence of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) there 33:54 – How bookbindings can become NFTs: Richard’s tokens 41:13 – “Minsky in bed” PDF-book as NFT 46:55 – Is it difficult to enter the NFT market? 48:05 – Ways to connect with artists who make the NFTs
Thu, 09 Dec 2021 - 56min - 66 - Respecting Local Traditions & Telling a Personal Story with Bookinding - Angaea Cuna [BT #20.2]
WARNING! The sponsors of the ambient sound for our conversation today are the croaking Hawaiian frogs. That can be uncomfortable to listen to, but we can’t do anything about this intervention from nature! This is the second part of our talk with Angaea Cuna, a sculptor, designer, educator, and bookmaker who currently resides in Hawaii. In this episode, we talked more about respecting the local traditions, environment, and nature in book art and bookbinding. And also we discussed how Angaea presented her own immigrant's story in an artist's book that she wrote, designed, made photos for, and assembled on her own. Watch other talks with Angaea: https://www.youtube.com/c/iBookBinding/search?query=Angaea%20Cuna Listen to this episode on: - Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ibookbinding - iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/ibookbinding-podcast/id1510257102 - Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaWJvb2tiaW5kaW5nLmNvbS9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Q Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Angaea's projects: https://www.instagram.com/gaeabound/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjNP3Hajfp2K55PR3rQ9HGQ 00:00 - Beginning 00:53 – Angaea’s collection of bones for designing books 03:18 – Hi’iaka artist book with bone inlay into the spine, books with black paper 07:03 – Angaea’s thoughts about the tactile experience from the books while creating her designs and inspiration from nature and mythology 10:20 – More nature materials from antique stores and own garden 13:24 – Experiment with the full cycle of making paper from Ma’o - Hawaiian cotton without professional equipment 17:51 – Japanese binding book with dragons on paper and cover inspired by the Bakunawa - a serpent-like dragon in Philippine mythology 20:24 – Inspiration from videogames 23:55 – Musings about taking materials from nature and environmentally conscious 30:25 – Influence of Hawaiian nature and culture on Angaea’s art, a book about growing in America as an immigrant 32:56 – DNA-tests for ethnicity and genealogy
Fri, 03 Dec 2021 - 37min - 65 - Richard Minsky: Job Printer at 13, Book Artist Today (And Not Only That!) [iBB Podcast #25.1]
This time we invited Richard Minsky to our podcast, a bookbinder, book artist, teacher, and many things more. In the end, the episode became a three-parter, as we recorded with Richard for more than 3 hours. The first part is mostly dedicated to beginnings: printing in childhood, first experiences in bookbinding, shifting to art as a social commentary, and the origins of the Center for Book Arts in New York. In the other two parts, Richard talks and shows more of his bindings, digital world, politics, history, and takes us for a tour of his studio. Stay tuned, they will be published in the upcoming weeks! You can watch the video version of this podcast on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cvo1iNOGC0 Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Find out more about Richard Minsky: - https://minsky.com/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Minsky - https://centerforbookarts.org/people/richard-minsky - https://web.library.yale.edu/arts/special-collections/interviews-with-richard-minsky 00:00 – Beginning 00:55 – Richard’s childhood: graphic art shop class, starting a first printing business at the age of 13 with a platen press 04:58 – Making a photo of Lyndon B. Johnson with handmade “Working press” shield 06:45 – How a printing press helped to attract 300 students to a Junior Astronomy Club’s lecture 07:48 – Promoting events and printing art through the years 09:11 – Twists of life: Path from printing to bookbinding through astrophysics, car crash, economics, violin, and chorus 16:41 – Richard’s firsts: full leather and tooled bindings made as a student of Daniel G. Knowlton in 1969 17:54 – “The Georgics” of Virgil with the French method of onlay: Learning on your own mistakes to make your bookbinding and design better 21:52 – “Garbage or archive”: The importance of documenting the process and the results of errors 25:43 – The shift from making “just” books to making book art that is a social commentary 34:28 – Origins of the Center for Book Arts in New York City 41:44 – Disconnect between the communities: design, art, and bookbinding. Possibility of collaborations 50:00 – Theoretical critical apparatus for discussion of bookbinding and book art. The “Material meets metaphor” methodology introduced by Richard Minsky 55:31 – Should an artist be versed in all the theories or can it be an intuitive art? Differences between art and craft 57:28 – Importance of being able to talk about your art 58:07 – Continuation of the story of the origin of the Center for Book Arts in New York City
Thu, 25 Nov 2021 - 1h 04min - 64 - Street Typography of Belgium / Signs & Numbers - Armina Ghazaryan [Bookish Talk #23]
Today our bookish guest is Armina Ghazaryan, a freelance graphic designer interested in typography and branding. Currently, Armina lives in Ghent, and that's where most of the examples of the street typography discussed in this video come from. We approached Armina because of her longstanding series of posts on Facebook and Instagram, where she shares her amazing findings. Our guest shared a lot of photos with us during this episode. You can watch the video version on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/mg-1nYgRqU0 Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Follow Armina on the web: Type & Press: http://typeand.press/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arm_79/ You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ 00:00 – Beginning 00:08 – Introduction of Armina Ghazaryan 01:20 – Street Typography Series: Inception 03:39 – Life of typography in cities: preservation, the reaction of people 05:19 – Photos of lettering and examples of typography in the city of Ghent 10:06 – Different ways to depict the digraph of the letters i and j in Dutch and Flemish languages 14:40 – Amsterdamse Krulletter (Amsterdam´s curly letter) in Ghent, Belgium 16:36 – Preserving and restoring old advertising signs and public lettering nowadays 20:37 – More photos of public lettering 27:00 – French, Dutch, and German influence on the Russian language 30:05 – More lettering photos 36:50 – Upside-down lettering, mistakes in the orientation of “S” and “N” 42:11 – Examples of unusual numbers in Ghent 44:58 – Postbox signs in the Netherlands 47:20 – Welcome to the city of Ghent: book markets, museums, and other events
Fri, 19 Nov 2021 - 50min - 63 - Workshop Tour / Making Your Own Tools / And More - Jordan Jay Tanner [iBB Podcast #24.2]
We return to Jordan Jay Tanner, a bookbinder and book conservator from Kansas City, MO, to talk more about bookbinding, book conservation, collecting books about books, and other things. In this video, Jay takes us for a tour of his garage studio and discusses some making his own tools for bookbinding. Watch our talks with Jordan Jay Tanner on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/iBookBinding/search?query=Jay%20Tanner Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Jordan Jay Tanner: https://www.jaytannerbookbinder.com/ On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaytannerbookbinder/ 00:00 - Beginning 00:14 - Jay’s bookbinding experience and learning calligraphy 04:20 - Tour around Jay’s garage studio 10:55 - Various conservator's equipment: curved scissors, lifting knives, needles, etc. 18:50 - Tips and tricks you get to know with experience and learning from an expert personally 20:53 - Making own tools 21:34 - Finishing Master’s degree. Taking chemistry lab classes online and offline 24:41 - Interesting time we live in 29:07 - Book’s disinfection, harm from ultraviolet light, and the influence of a camera flash 31:00 - Fighting mold on books, humidity conditions 33:50 - Bookbinders and conservators from whom Jay wants to learn in the future. New and modern techniques in bookbinding 40:32 - Online vs offline bookbinding courses and lessons 44:10 - Books made by Jay 47:35 - Box with models of corners 49:32 - “The painter’s house is never painted” - making books for personal use
Sat, 13 Nov 2021 - 53min - 62 - Building Your Career in Bookbinding and Conservation - Jordan Jay Tanner [iBB Podcast #24]
This time on iBookBinding's podcast we are talking to Jordan Jay Tanner, a young bookbinder and conservator from Kansas City, MO. That's the first part of our discussion, but we have covered quite a lot here: from Jay's studies and searching for the best path to build his career, to collecting books about bookbinding and spending too much money on book hunting =) The second chapter will be available a bit later. Jay takes us for a tour of his garage studio, we talk about tools, and discuss some of Jay's bindings there. Stay tuned and don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel! Watch this episode om our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JZ-ktQr8e0 Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Jordan Jay Tanner: https://www.jaytannerbookbinder.com/ On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaytannerbookbinder/ 00:00 - Beginning 00:58 - Introduction of Jay Tanner 01:58 - Bachelor’s degree in Art History and Printmaking from Kansas City Art Institute 03:00 - Future plans in bookbinding and conservation 03:32 - Book conservators around Kansas City 08:00 - Museums in Kansas City 09:22 - Path to conservation and bookbinding 11:24 - Book collection 12:34 - Cataloging collection of books about bookbinding 15:51 - Digital services and apps for cataloging books 17:53 - Choosing the books for collection 19:30 - The first edition of “The artistic crafts series of technical handbooks: Number 1. Bookbinding” by Douglas Cockerell 20:00 - Another edition of “The artistic crafts series of technical handbooks: Number 1. Bookbinding” by Douglas Cockerell with gold tooling 20:52 - “Technological handbooks. Bookbinding” by J.W. Zaehnsdorf 22:15 - Different editions of “A short history of bookbinding” by J.W. Zaehnsdorf 23:30 - A catalogue of books bound by S.T. Prideaux 24:40 - A collection of bindings made by women 26:50 - The Guild of Women-Binders and “The bindings of tomorrow” 31:27 - Top comfortable price to spend on a book and books as an investment 35:39 - Ways of buying books for collection 36:25 - Most memorable experience at a book market 37:40 - “Paul Revere and his Engraving” by W.L. Andrews 41:29 - Field of interest in bookbinding books collection 42:50 - Restoring Art Nouveau furniture 44:48 - Bookbinding books from all over the world 46:46 - The oldest books about bookbinding 49:14 - “The book of trades and library of the useful arts” with a chapter about bookbinding, 1807 52:20 - The oldest Dutch book about bookbinding 53:40 - Musings about publishing the books of trades according to the guilds’ rules 54:58 - The oldest German book of bookbinding
Sun, 31 Oct 2021 - 57min - 61 - Bookibindings and Other Bookish Things of Denis Villeneuve's Dune Movie [Bookish Talk #22]
This time we found all the bookish objects and themes from the new Dune movie directed by Denis Villeneuve. In this video, we talk about bookbinding, languages, libraries, and handwriting of the cinematic universe of Dune. To see the images and screenshots you can watch this podcast on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch2LZ1fGSkA Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Dune languages on David J. Peterson's website: https://dedalvs.com/work/dune/ Reddit discussion of languages of Dune: https://www.reddit.com/r/dune/comments/q9uzvu/the_different_languages_in_the_movie/ David J. Peterson's tweet about the Litany Against Fear in Chakobsa: https://twitter.com/Dedalvs/status/1452724546369253376 00:00 - Beginning 01:05 - Importance of printed books in the Dune universe 02:07 - Languages of Denis Villeneuve's Dune movie 03:12 - The influence of Russian, English, and Chinese languages on the languages of the future 06:16 - David J. Peterson - the developer of the languages of Dune 07:36 - The scroll of the Herald of Change and a minor blooper 09:55 - The difference between the approach to languages in the new Dune movie and Star Wars 10:38 - Atreides library in the Gom Jabbar scene 11:55 - Gurney Halleck's prayer book 14:57 - Chakobsa (?) praying book 17:25 - War languages of Harkonnens and Sardukar; the secret language of Tleilaxu 19:30 - The Litany Against Fear in Chakobsa 20:25 - Handwritten letter from Dr. Yueh 20:34 - Library at the abandoned research station
Fri, 29 Oct 2021 - 22min - 60 - Come Over to the Book Arts Fair in Leiden this November! Talking to Karin Cox [iBB Podcast #23]
This time we are talking about the Boekkunstbeurs, a book arts fair held in Leiden. And our guest is Karin Cox, one of the persons in charge of this fair. Karin is a bookbinder, book restorer, and book arts teacher from the Netherlands. And she's a member of the Stichting Handboekbinden, the Dutch bookbinders' society. iBookBinding was a participant of the Boekkunstbeurs twice, in 2018 and 2019. And both times, it was an amazing experience. The fair is jointly organized by the society of bookbinders and the society of printers. If you are in Europe or have a chance to visit the Netherlands early this November, we highly recommend you to visit the fair in Leiden! Listen to this episode on: - Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ibookbinding - iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/ibookbinding-podcast/id1510257102 - Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaWJvb2tiaW5kaW5nLmNvbS9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Q Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Boekkunstbeurs: https://boekkunstbeurs.nl/opening-en/ Stichting Handboekbinden: https://stichting-handboekbinden.eu/ Drukwerk in de Marge: https://drukwerkindemarge.org/ Karin Cox on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/boekrestauratie Information about getting tested: https://www.testenvoortoegang.org/ Entering or returning to the Netherlands: https://www.government.nl/topics/coronavirus-covid-19/visiting-the-netherlands-from-abroad/checklist-entry 00:00 - Beginning 01:54 - Introducing Boekkunstbeurs - Book Arts Fair in Leiden 06:11 - Organizing this year's fair after the last year's cancellation 09:23 - From which countries participants and visitors are coming to the fair? 10:30 - How travel limitations of this year are affecting the fair? 13:18 - Are there any online activities associated with the fair? 14:09 - How many participants and visitors usually attend the fair? 14:52 - Pieterskerk - the spacious and magnificent location for the fair 16:38 - Karin's personal experience of participating in the fair - book arts fair as a bookish club 21:11 - What kinds of workshops can you usually find at the Boekkunstbeurs? 22:42 - Is there still a chance to register as a participant? 24:08 - The financial aspects of the fair 27:42 - Join the Dutch Society of Bookbinders and support their cause! 30:52 - What other activities the Society is organizing? Competitions and challenges 34:13 - The age of participants. Starting to make books and experimenting 36:13 - The history of the Stichting Handboekbinden and its future 37:49 - Options for a more formal bookbinding education in the Benelux region 39:26 - Career of Karin Cox and her path to becoming a bookbinder, book restorer, and book arts teacher 45:18 - Current Society's bookish challenge
Sun, 10 Oct 2021 - 51min - 59 - [iBB en Español #1.1] Josep Cambras: 50 años de encuadernaciones artísticas y 35 años enseñanando
[English below] Hoy tenemos algo nuevo para ustedes en iBookBinding. Este es nuestro primer episodio en Español de nuestro podcast. Nuestro primer invitado es Josep Cambras, encuadernador y maestro de Barcelona, España. Nuestra anfitriona es Lucia Farias y nuestra anfitriona invitada es Rita Udina. En la siguiente hora vamos a empezar por presentar los primeros años de la carrera de Josep y algunos encuadernadores que lo influenciaron. Continuando con su experiencia como maestro de el arte de la encuadernación. Esta es la primera parte de nuestra charla con Josep Cambras. Subscríbete para que no te pierdas la segunda parte!!! -------------------------------------- Today we start something new at iBookBinding. This is the first episode of the Spanish version of our podcast. And the first guest is Josep Cambras, a bookbinder and bookbinding teacher from Barcelona, Spain. Our host is Lucía Farías and our guest host today is Rita Udina. During this hour, we are going to discuss many things starting with the early years of Josep's career and other bookbinders who have influenced him. And continuing to his experience as a teacher of book arts. This is only the first part of our talk with Josep Cambras. Subscribe not to miss the second part! Watch the video of this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfTh0xdTvo Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/
Tue, 21 Sep 2021 - 43min - 58 - Painted Wooden Book Covers from the Medieval Siena - Tavolette di Biccherna [Bookish Talk #21]
During this episode, we discuss Pavel's recent visit to an exhibition "Siena in the early Renaissance" that happened in Moscow this summer. You can watch the video version of this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTz_-9p69r0 Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/
Thu, 16 Sep 2021 - 27min - 57 - Bookbinding in Hawaii by Angaea Cuna - From Sculpture to Artist's Books [Bookish Talk #20]
With this episode of our Bookish Talk, it was the first time for us when we mixed up not only the time difference with the guest but even the date. That happened because Angaea Cuna is a book artist living in Hawaii. We arrange our Zoom call for Friday. Pavel and I joined the call in the morning and spent some 15 minutes worrying if anything happened to Angaea. Luckily pretty soon, we realized that while it was Friday morning in Moscow and Versailles, it still was Thursday evening in Hawaii. So, we had to repeat the next day! Angaea Cuna is a sculptor, designer, educator, and bookmaker. This is the first part of our talk, and there will be two more of them. Here we discuss how she started making books, found her first tools on a low budget, and talk about some of her first artist's books. And we'll return to Angaea in a couple of weeks for the second part of our talk! Watch the video of this episode here: https://youtu.be/DkYGgfKA5FI Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Angaea's projects: https://www.instagram.com/gaeabound/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjNP3Hajfp2K55PR3rQ9HGQ 00:00 - Beginning 01:19 - From sculpture to book arts 02:57 - Acquiring first equipment and tools on a low budget 05:30 - Creative approach to bookbinding and bookbinding tools 07:54 - Mastering the craft 10:06 - Where Angaea plans to take her art and craft next? 11:25 - Curating exhibitions 12:26 - Angaea's first artist's book 15:31 - Current projects 19:09 - Angaea's clients / Telling a story / Valuing your work 26:25 - Angaea's support system / Arts and crafts markets on Hawaii
Tue, 07 Sep 2021 - 34min - 56 - Miniature Artist's Books and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder - Rebecca Padgham [Bookish Talk #19]
The title of this video is definitely not enough to describe everything we discussed during this 30-minute talk with Rebecca Padgham, an artist and bookmaker from the UK. Initially, we invited Rebecca after she posted in a bookish Facebook community a request for some advice concerning trimming books for a person with Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder. But that definitely wasn't the only topic we covered! From making miniature books from a single sheet of A4 paper to promoting your work through Facebook and Instagram. From creating artist's books during travels to finding ways to sell your books in the year of pandemic. You can watch the video of this podcast on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyL_mrpQLT4 Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Rebecca's projects: https://www.instagram.com/superpadg/ https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/rebeccapadgham https://rebeccapadgham.com/ 00:00 - Beginning 00:46 - Rebecca's path to book arts 02:06 - First book projects 03:38 - What's after the university graduation? 04:29 - Selling your works at art markets 06:02 - Importance of networking 07:46 - Rebecca's creative process during the trips 08:27 - Travelog from Greece 12:19 - How Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder affects bookmaking? 14:22 - Rebecca's approach to triming books 16:17 - Setting realistic production goals 18:38 - More books 18:48 - Miniature concertina books 19:19 - Miniature book: Cats and Dogs 20:10 - Inspired by Micro Library books - Books made with a single sheet of A4 paper 21:07 - Miniature book: Pigs 23:00 - Miniature book: Noah's Ark 26:36 - Missing on art fairs in the year of pandemic and finding other ways to sell your work 29:31 - Promoting your work on social media 32:24 - Where Rebecca wants to take her crafts next?
Wed, 25 Aug 2021 - 35min - 55 - iBB Podcast #22 - Andreas Maroulis - Award-Winning Binding, Gold Tooling, and Graphite Edges
We invited Andreas Maroulis, a Greek bookbinder currently living in the UK. Andreas won an award at the Designer Bookbinders Competition recently with his binding "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck. In this episode of our podcast, we discuss the binding, the creative process Andreas follows, and some other things like gold tooling and edge decoration. Watch the video version of this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQTQEuG-1so Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Andreas and his work: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andreas_maroulis/ Website: https://www.booksandcentaurs.com/ 00:00 - Beginning 01:02 - Gold tooling prize 02:26 - Richly tooled books vs. books with minimalistic tooling 04:24 - Feedback from other members of the Society 06:11 - Creative process and design of the binding 07:17 - Graphite edges with decoration 08:39 - Gold tooling on the turn-ins 09:48 - More technical details 13:45 - How the story influenced the design 23:23 - Finding new uses for gold in bookbinding 32:08 - Graphite and maybe graphene? All sorts of edge decoration 35:17 - A comment on sanding book edges 37:57 - Design sketches and tests 43:35 - Constraints of deadlines
Sat, 24 Jul 2021 - 48min - 54 - Award-Winning Bindings of Richard Beadsmoore - Bookish Talk #18
Designer Bookbinders has a competition for their UK-based members. This year, Richard Beadsmoore was among the competition winners, taking three prizes with his two bindings. In this video, we discuss these bindings. Richard talks about his creative process and describes how was is to start making books only after his retirement from his day job. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzpqo1ABAps Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Richard Beadsmoore's projects: Website: https://www.beadybookbinder.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beadybookbinder/
Sat, 10 Jul 2021 - 33min - 53 - BASE - An Exhibition Space for a Single Book - Mark Cockram - Bookish Talk #17
Earlier this year, Mark Cockram created an unusual exhibition space for books at his studio that is only 76x34x18.5 cm in size. Since that moment he has had several exhibitions there. And that's exactly what we are going to discuss during this Bookish Talk! Watch this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2HWL0akkng Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Book Art SpacE BASE: https://www.facebook.com/groups/400132954397706 To follow Mark's projects, use the links below: https://www.instagram.com/markbookartist/ https://twitter.com/markbookartist https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbuiGvf4CuYNSV6LNL7nu5g https://www.facebook.com/mark.cockram.9 Studio 5 Book Arts http://studio5bookbindingandarts.blogspot.com/ https://www.facebook.com/Studio5Bookarts/ 00:00 - Beginning 01:34 - Introducing BASE - Book Arts SpacE 01:59 - Working with a 76x34x18.5 cm exhibition space 03:29 - The journey to the art 04:18 - What inspired Mark to create an exhibition space like that 07:56 - Guerilla exhibitions 09:55 - The first exhibition at BASE - Automatic #1 12:48 - The Second exhibition - Diptych: The book ends here 13:10 - Inviting other artists to exhibit at the BASE 14:39 - A tongue-in-cheek approach 16:59 - Miniature books 18:28 - Interactive exhibitions 20:06 - Kinetic book sculptures 23:53 - How were the books exhibited during the lockdowns? Online exhibitions 28:11 - How the interaction with the clients and collectors changed during these past months?
Sun, 27 Jun 2021 - 32min - 52 - iBB Podcast #21.2 - Lucía Farías Villarreal - Show & Tell / Workshop Tour
We return to Lucía Farías Villarreal to discuss different bookbinding styles and watch her show us some of her bindings. At the end of this podcast, Lucía takes us for a brief tour of her workshop. Please check the timestamps below to see all the styles of bindings Lucía showed us. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR1mimlbmUg Watch the first part of our talk with Lucía: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztu28HMSFRc Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Lucia's projects: - Website: https://www.ovejaverde.com.mx/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ovejaverdemx/ - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ovejaverde2008/ Master binder Rodrigo Ortega: https://ombligodellibro.mx/ 00:00 - Beginning 00:21 - Making fish skin leather and experimenting with other crafts during Covid 09:08 - Islamic bookbinding 14:23 - Vellum-covered book 15:38 - Examples of articulated bindings 20:29 - Homework for the American Academy of Bookbinding 23:13 - Hugo Peller's Pop-Up Box 24:41 - Scrolls and other historical objects made during Julia Miller's class at the AAB 29:41 - Making book boxes 33:22 - Bookbinding tutorials in Spanish 37:17 - Spanish-speaking bookbinders from all over the world 41:58 - A brief workshop tour
Thu, 24 Jun 2021 - 49min - 51 - Bookbinder's Year in Lockdown - Todd Davis - Bookish Talk #16
A bit more than a year ago, we recorded our second podcast video, and our guest was Todd Davis, a bookbinder from Boston, MA. We returned to Todd a year later to discuss how was it to survive the first lockdown and what new projects this past year have brought to him. This video is a bit longer than our average Bookish Talk. Still, we decided not to move it to our main podcast, as besides talking bookbinding, we discussed some other topics like public transit or the reliability of mail services. The last, however, may be important to some of our colleagues =) Watch this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChmuOe4Fr4Q Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Todd's work: - https://middlesexbindery.com/ - https://www.facebook.com/MiddlesexBindery/ - https://www.instagram.com/llysenw/ 00:00 - Beginning 01:44 - How it was a year ago, during the first Covid lockdown? 05:22 - Explosion in the number of orders after the first lockdown - Bibles and cookbooks 08:39 - Availability of supplies during the lockdowns - problems with shipping 12:33 - Does all that affect the orders? Do people bring them to the bindery or send them by mail? 18:02 - Wear of old books and their longevity after the repair 20:53 - Changes to book production and binderies of the precious centuries 27:55 - New types of orders that started to come after the first lockdown 29:47 - Is hiring an assistant an option? 30:57 - Vaccination and teaching classes again 33:40 - Book fairs and other events 37:30 - Paying rent during the lockdowns 40:42 - Tuning the work/life balance
Mon, 14 Jun 2021 - 51min - 50 - iBB Podcast #21.1 - Lucía Farías Villarreal - Being a Bookbinder in Mexico / Medieval Bookbinding
Today we share another episode of iBookBinding's podcast and it's quite special. Our guest is Lucía Farías Villarreal, a bookbinder from Mexico. We are going to talk about Lucia's projects, state of bookbinding in Mexico, and in the second part of the episode (next week), Lucia takes us for a workshop tour and shows some of her work. However, what's makes this episode stand apart is that Lucia decided to help us make the pilot episode of the Spanish version of iBookBinding's podcast. It is in editing now and will be published a bit later, in two weeks or so. As our first guest, we invited a famous Spanish bookbinder and author of books about bookbinding Josep Cambras. We also invited Rita Udina, a conservator from Barcelona, to be a co-host on this pilot episode. ------------------- Hoy compartimos un nuevo episodio del podcast iBoolBinding y es muy especial. Nuestra invitada es Lucía Farías Villarreal, una encuadernadora que vive y trabaja en Monterrey México. Hablaremos de sus proyectos y de la encuadernación en México. En la segunda parte la semana que entra Lucía nos lleva a un recorrido por su taller y nos mostrará alguns trabajos recientes. Lo que hace aún más especial este episodio es que Lucía nos apoyará con el primer podcast iBookBinding en Español, el cual se está editando y será publicado en un par de semanas. Nuestro primer invitado para iBookBinding en Español es el reconocido encuadernador Josep Cambras. Nos acompañará en el podcast la conservadora Rita Udina. Ambos ubicados en Barcelona. Manténganse al tanto!!!! ------------------- Watch this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztu28HMSFRc Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Lucia's projects: - Website: https://www.ovejaverde.com.mx/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ovejaverdemx/ - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ovejaverde2008/ 00:00 - Beginning 00:49 - Lucia's introduction to bookbinding 03:09 - Situation with bookbinding courses in Mexico 05:09 - From printmaking to bookbinding 06:31 - Studying at the American Academy of Bookbinding 09:44 - Making prints 10:20 - Keeping a wide range from straightforward commercial projects to design binding 12:32 - Historical binding 15:14 - Girdle books 23:33 - Miniature books 25:15 - Coptic stitch miniature with endbands 27:15 - A micro-miniature book 27:35 - The difference between standard bookbinding and miniature bookbinding 28:30 - Not using a sewing frame 30:41 - Bookbinding tools from Louët 32:23 - Mexican bookbinding tradition 37:16 - Leather binding with clasps 37:48 - Are local materials used by bookbinders in Mexico? 39:34 - Is there a guild of bookbinders in Mexico? 40:31 - Who are the customers of the Mexican bookbinders? 41:50 - Working during the Coronavirus lockdown 42:30 - Fishleather tanning
Thu, 03 Jun 2021 - 46min - 49 - BINDING re:DEFINED - Teaching Unusual Bookbinding with Lori Sauer - Bookish Talk #15
This time we return to Lori Sauer to discuss her project BINDING re:DEFINED and the importance of teaching and learning different bookbinding approaches and techniques. During this episode, Loris shows many unusual book structures including some structures created by other bookbinding teachers participating in the BINDING re:DEFINED project. These structures include: - Daniel Kelm's wire edge binding; - Kylin Lee Acherman's split spine book structure; - Nadine Werner's steckalbum. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xd-2bAADyw Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Lori Sauer on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lorisauer_beechingstoke/ BINDING re:DEFINED: https://www.bookbindingworkshops.com/ 00:00 - BINDING re:DEFINED 00:59 - How it all began 06:15 - Being open to different traditions and approaches 08:14 - The target audience of the BINDING re:DEFINED project 08:50 - A scroll display structure 11:18 - Creating innovative book structures 11:59 - The Pompidou structure 13:22 - The removable case structure 15:53 - Structures that solve a particular problem 16:57 - Doing lots of tests before the structure starts to work properly 17:23 - Sewn board binding with a rounded wooden spine 20:23 - On stab bindings vs. books that open flat 21:29 - BINDING re:DEFINED in the post-Covid era 23:24 - Online classes 25:33 - Daniel Kelm's wire edge binding 26:22 - Kylin Lee Acherman's split spine book structure 28:32 - Nadine Werner's steckalbum 29:10 - Networking in the bookbinders' world 31:48 - Book arts fairs and lockdowns
Sat, 29 May 2021 - 37min - 48 - iBB Podcast #20.2 - Daniel Kelm - Show & Tell and Workshop Tour
We continue our discussion of experimental bindings with book artist Daniel Kelm while he is showing some of his impressive works! Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF_tGjqaNwM Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Daniel's work: - http://www.danielkelm.com/ - https://www.facebook.com/wideawakegarage 00:00 - Beginning 00:20 - Workshop panorama 01:38 - Templum Elementorum 06:34 - Books with transparent pages 11:27 - A couple of words about traditional leather binding 12:24 - Making an unusual box 15:39 - Integrating the box into the binding's narrative 19:28 - Surplus Value Books by Rick Moody - A book box with a straightjacket 26:27 - Inviting the reader to modify the book 28:24 - Book models being priced higher than editions 29:50 - What's about other people modifying Daniel's bindings? 31:38 - The simplest form of the wire-edge binding 39:09 - Chemistry, alchemy, mathematics, architecture, etc. 42:48 - Secrecy vs. sharing 52:09 - Collaborating on the projects with the customers 54:17 - Legacy
Tue, 18 May 2021 - 1h 04min - 47 - Hannah Brown - Bookish Talk #14
In the first part of this talk, we discussed Hannah's architectural binding. But that wasn't all. We lingered a bit more to talk about Hannah's books in public collections, apprenticeships, and new workshop space that will allow Hannah to run more teaching programs at her studio. We hope to return to Hannah when her new workshop space is finished later this year! Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYNzyVSZsps Previous talk with Hannah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX3iCxs8zGI Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Hannah's projects: Website: https://han-made.net/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hannah.brown.7169709 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hannah_brown_bookbinding/ 00:00 - Beginning 00:21 - Hannah path to bookbinding 02:22 - Making books for yourself 03:50 - What's a board? 05:37 - Hannah's bindings in public collections 06:31 - How are bindings selected for library collections? 08:45 - Does Hannah have apprentices? 10:05 - New workshop space and new possibilities for teaching 11:06 - What are the projects that excite Hannah at the moment? 12:28 - Working during the lockdown 14:48 - Online courses
Thu, 13 May 2021 - 17min - 46 - iBB Podcast #20.1 - Daniel Kelm - Experimenting With Book Arts for Almost 45 Years
The 20th episode of iBookBinding's podcast will be published in three parts because we are talking to Daniel Kelm, an amazing bookbinder and book artist with almost 45 years of experience. Daniel is an amazing speaker and teacher and shares lots of amazing stories during this discussion. Among other things, Daniel experimented with book structures, invented the wire-edge binding, founded a school, and did many other amazing things. To learn more, watch this episode or listen to it (see the links below). Watch this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgKzGwdvv6w Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ 00:00 - Daniel Kelm 00:30 - Starting with chemistry 03:21 - Finding a connection with books 04:24 - Running away from words to library bindings 05:41 - Learning process, apprenticeship, and influences 07:15 - Using chemistry to figure out the guilding techniques 08:05 - Starting with the traditional approach and moving on to experimentation 08:58 - Importance of collaborations 11:24 - "If you put a scuplture on the front of the book, it stops being a book!" 12:54 - Asking questions, playing, and having fun 13:45 - Having this great chance for free creative collaborations in the Western World 15:35 - Freedom from strict traditions 18:13 - Inventing the wire-edge binding 19:46 - Looking for stress areas of bindings 25:19 - Learning as much as possible about different structures and materials 30:09 - When a book is not a book anymore? 36:30 - The difference between book market and art market 39:31 - Buried books of Mark Cockram 41:41 - Ways to transmit narrative to the reader 44:11 - Open mind vs. bookbinding conservatism 48:42 - Sharing the knowledge and not being protective with your own inventions 51:05 - Teaching, founding a school, and having apprentices 54:40 - Cancer experience and its influence on Daniels life 57:28 - Work/life balance 59:22 - Growing things 1:02:09 - Listening to the material vs. forcing your own will onto it. Alchemy and science 1:11:39 - A very traditional mix of philosophy, bookbinding, and alchemy 1:12:29 - Collaboration with Ben Elbel
Fri, 07 May 2021 - 1h 18min - 45 - Bookish Talk #13 - Anna Markova - iBB français
It's time for a big announcement! We are recording a pilot episode of the French version of our podcast soon! We invited Anna Markova, the host of the French version, to this Bookish Talk to talk about our plans and make all the proper introductions. Watch this podcast on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pT63wQVN2A Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Anna Markova: - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annamarkova_bookhist/ - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anna.markova1 - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx3PTChrWc1OI_HGJsJe2dA/
Sun, 25 Apr 2021 - 18min - 44 - iBB Podcast #19 - The Conservators - Angelina Bakalarou and Ashleigh Brown
This time we have two guests who work at the same conservation business - The Conservators, Ltd. in London. Ashleigh Brown works in paper and photograph conservation, while Angelina Bakalarou focuses more on paintings and paper conservation. We discuss many things in this episode. From proper procedures to what makes the conservators cringe. From the early careers of Angelina and Ashleigh to their future plans and goals. And, of course, mold, improper handling of objects, and gloves =) Watch the video on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIHpv-TJSis Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ The Conservators on the web: - Website: https://www.theconservators.org/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theconservators/ 00:00 - Beginning 00:51 - Do paper conservators work with books a lot? What else? 02:02 - Washing paper and doing projects from home 03:06 - The average age of materials Angelina and Ashleigh have to work with 04:48 - Georgian and Victorian ephemera 06:33 - Modern approach to conservation of paper and bordering with restoration 09:14 - Ethics of conservation. Changes to the intervention approach compared to the past decades 13:43 - The importance of dust, dirt, and rust 20:29 - Following the protocol and taking as many notes as possible 21:52 - Some examples of recent work 24:50 - Education and first steps to conservation for Angelina and Ashleigh 25:00 - Angelina 33:05 - Ashleigh 43:14 - What happens to the objects when they return after conservation works 45:53 - To use or not to use gloves? 49:40 - Is there any gender disparity and sexism in paper conservation? 55:11 - Having a chance to touch stuff when you are a conservator 57:37 - How the lockdown influence the amount and scope of work for Angelina and Ashleigh 59:39 - Can mold really be removed? (Spoiler: No!) 1:08:09 - Being lost in translation with the professional terminology 1:16:19 - Would there even be a conservation job for Angelina in Greece nowadays? 1:18:43 - Have ever Ashleigh thought about returning to the US? 1:22:41 - What's next for Angelina and Ashleigh in terms of their careers? 1:28:01 - Conservation of plastics 1:30:09 - Why don't people listen to conservators well enough?
Mon, 19 Apr 2021 - 1h 35min - 43 - Bookish Talk With Kate Holland - Bookish Talk #12
We return to Kate Holland to discuss many things related to modern bookbinding. Competitions, the possibility of revival of the craft in the post-covid world, drawing the young generation's attention to book arts, the gap between the traditional bookbinding and book arts, and much more! Watch the video on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfD-3aQKuIk Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Kate Holland: Website: https://katehollandbooks.co.uk/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katehollandbook/ 00:00 - Beginning 00:11 - There is a certain image of bookbinding propagated by the media 01:51 - Having household names in bookbinding would definitely help to change the perception 03:48 - Contemporary issues and bookbinding 05:57 - Kate has a very exciting project for this year, and diamonds are involved 08:29 - Participating in competitions 09:06 - Inviting the new generation of bookbinders to join the competitions 09:54 - Apprenticeship schemes 11:42 - Having a school of bookbinding in the UK 12:54 - Bookbinding being and not being a nearly extinct craft 13:39 - Professional organizations who work on drawing attention to bookbinding. Friction between the worlds of bookbinding and book arts 16:18 - Revival of bookbinding in the post-covid world 20:20 - Can people access and see design bindings in museums and libraries? 23:53 - Finding time for personal projects
Thu, 15 Apr 2021 - 28min - 42 - iBB Podcast #18 - Kaija Rantakari - Is there a Moment When a Book Isn't a Book Anymore?
This was intended as another episode of our shorter Bookish Talk podcast. But in the end, we talked for an hour and discussed much more than was initially planned. And we are so happy we had this opportunity! Kaija Rantakari is a poet, bookbinder, and book artist from Helsinki (Finland). In this episode of the iBookBinding's Podcast, we discuss her artist's books. And try to find that line when an object isn't a book anymore. Is there a line of that sort, anyway? Kaija shows us several of her bindings, and we discuss many other topics as well, from her studio in a writers' residence in Helsinki to the consequences of a year in lockdown. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j46HRG3A_o Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Kaija Rantakari: - Website: https://www.paperiaarre.com/ - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/paperiaarre/ 00:00 - Beginning 00:57 - What is and what isn't a book? 03:37 - States of a book / Book as a tactile object / Putting yourself into your book 06:11 - How did the global pandemic reflect on Kaija's art 07:27 - Artist's Book: The Tender Vessel 09:38 - #AreYouBookEnough challenge 11:08 - Does a book need text to be a book? 15:34 - Asking the reader to play along when a bookbinder tells them that's a book 17:31 - Being a Finnish poet and trying to reach out to a wider audience 19:15 - Binding your own poetry: Koko meren laajuus (The whole extent of the sea) 25:00 - Parting with the artist's books vs. selling the journals and sketchbooks 27:57 - Being trained as a traditional bookbinder. The divide between the traditional bookbinding and book arts 30:53 - Do you have any feedback on how people use the journals you make and sell online? 32:39 - The studio where Kaija works 35:10 - Kaija just published another book of poetry 38:04 - Artist's Book: Untitled Stockings 46:02 - How do you read a book like that? 53:39 - Artist's book: always not remembering 58:12 - Using mica in bookbinding 59:31 - The importance of a box as a continuation of a book 1:05:27 - When box becomes a book: fingerprints
Tue, 13 Apr 2021 - 1h 09min - 41 - iBB Podcast #17.3 - Dimitris Koutsipetsidis - Workshop Tour and Bookbinding Tools Dimitris Makes
We already shared two parts of our talk with Dimitris Koutsipetsidis, a bookbinder from Athens (Greece). Earlier, we discussed the things that brought him to making books and then Dimitris showed us some of his bindings. This time Dimitris takes us for a tour of his studio and shows us some of the tools he makes. To buy some of these tools, check the links below! Watch some more videos with Dimitris Koutsipetsidis: https://www.youtube.com/c/iBookBinding/search?query=Dimitris%20Koutsipetsidis Listen to this episode on: - Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ibookbinding - iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/ibookbinding-podcast/id1510257102 - Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaWJvb2tiaW5kaW5nLmNvbS9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Q Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Dimitris: Blog: https://koutsipetsidis.wordpress.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dimitris_bookbinding_corner/ Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheBookbindersBench Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Dimitrisbookbindingcorner/ Tools made by Dimitris: Blog Tool page: https://koutsipetsidis.wordpress.com/tools-for-bookbinding-εργαλεία-βιβλιοδεσίας Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheBookbindersBench 00:00 - Beginning 00:12 - Workshop tour 00:43 - The Tale of the Four Benches - Tolkien vibes 03:32 - How the previous Dimitris' workshops looked like? 07:09 - Tour: Storage rack for supplies 07:50 - Paring knives 08:13 - The type holder and stylus set Dimitris makes and sells 08:54 - Would Dimitris like to make all of his tools himself? 11:36 - If you had all the time in the world, which tools would you make for yourself right now? 13:42 - Paring knives, once again 15:29 - Backing hammer 15:54 - Tour: Cabinet with lead types 16:17 - Still using the first press Dimitris made for his projects 18:35 - Paper storage 19:11 - Smart storage for thin leather strips 19:39 - Post-It notes all over the place 22:30 - Tour: Collection of marbled paper 28:21 - Projects currently in work 31:26 - More about Tolkien 35:44 - Future project: Animal Farm 36:43 - Dimitris' approach to design bindings 39:19 - Being a part of a tradition 43:24 - Collaborating with your family and members of your creative community 46:52 - Tour: Machining corner of the bindery 48:38 - Wooden and metal dust created during the toolmaking process. Breathing safety 51:19 - A bit more about the tools Dimitris makes and Stepan's opinion on the tools 54:35 - Tour: Drill bits stand 55:41 - Finishing presses Dimitris made (not for sale, unfortunately) 57:37 - Board shear with a fence Dimitris made to improve the accessibility 1:00:00 - Are there plans to create any new tools? 1:02:03 - Special tools' projects 1:02:50 - Animalcula 1:03:52 - The importance of feedback and constant updating of the tools
Fri, 09 Apr 2021 - 1h 10min - 40 - Design Bindings of the Booker Prize 2020 - Lori Sauer - Bookish Talk #11
We return to the design bindings made for the shortlisted books of the Booker Prize in 2020. This time we talk to Lori Sauer about her work with the book Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste (Canongate Books, 2020). The structure is a version of the crossed structure binding modified by Lori Sauer. Binding covered with stone veneer. In the video, we discuss some technical aspects of this binding, as well as Lori's approach to working with Booker Prize bindings and book structures in general. To watch this episode on our YouTube channel, please use the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFWCj24PikI Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ 00:00 - Beginning 00:34 - Lori Sauer's method in working with Booker Prize bindings 02:43 - Introducing Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste (Canongate Books, 2020) 05:02 - What was Lori's process in selecting the theme for the binding 06:46 - Modified version of the crossed structure binding 07:52 - Using stone veneer 10:39 - The darkness in the book and stone of the cover 11:20 - Explaining the crossed structure binding 11:47 - Eel skin for the spine 12:37 - Is it hard to work with eel skin? 13:09 - Gold speckles on the cover 14:29 - Iterative design process 16:30 - Why book structures are so important to Lori (even if they are hidden) 18:03 - The most challenging Booker Prize binding Lori had to work on 19:41 - Peculiarities of Lori's style 21:39 - Who influenced Lori's style? 22:55 - Lori's background in art and architecture 25:18 - What is design binding? 27:09 - Not using assistants, Covid, and being not a well-disciplined creator 27:53 - Lori's studio 29:01 - Feedback from Maaza Mengiste (and other authors)
Thu, 25 Mar 2021 - 32min - 39 - iBB Podcast Special - iBookBinding is Moving to France!
Time for the big news! On the 1st of April, Stepan and his wife Sofya are moving to France. And that's not some April Fool's Day thing =) This, of course, means that iBookBinding is also moving to France. The shop will have to be closed for a couple of weeks while all formalities are settled, but other activities at iBookBinding will proceed as usual. In this video, we discuss some technical issues related to iBookBinding and its move, talk about the aspects of living far away from your homeland and moving countries, and shed some light on some moments of iBookBinding's history. If you want to know more about how iBookBinding works, learn our approach to developing our Instagram account, or just learn something new about peculiarities of translation of Russian names, join us and listen to this special episode of iBookBinding's podcast! Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZZ9gpO8iL0 Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ 00:00 - Beginning 00:09 - Welcoming Stepan's wife Sofya to the show 01:03 - Sofya and Stepan (and iBookBinding) are moving to France 01:39 - Having an artisan and a person with a corporate job in our family 03:42 - Timeline of the move 04:20 - Temporary closing iBookBinding's shop for several weeks starting on the 23rd of March 05:03 - What happens to current orders at the iBookBinding's shop 05:48 - Moving your possessions to a different country for the second time in three years 07:22 - Another lockdown in Paris is happening right at the moment of our move. Temporary housing 10:24 - Where exactly do we plan to settle and all that temporary housing thing 12:05 - Moscow - Leiden - Versailles 15:16 - Finally getting a separate workshop for iBookBinding 16:47 - Filling our living room with iBookBinding's possessions 17:45 - How moving of our stuff to a different country will happen 23:20 - On reusing packaging at iBookBinding 25:48 - Learning the French language vs. Learning the Dutch language 35:20 - Dealing with a language block 45:26 - Even more on language barriers: how Russian names are translated to other languages in the works of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy 53:02 - Sofya's thoughts on Stepan being a bookbinder and following his hobby across the border lines 53:49 - Sofya explains how we bought iBookBinding in 2015 and what it meant to Stepan after the move to the Netherlands 01:01:18 - Sofya's work with iBookBinding's Instagram account 01:07:22 - Processing all requests and messages from the members of our community 01:11:03 - iBookBinding's logo 01:13:11 - Our plans for the nearest future and for the years to come 01:15:27 - Becoming more sustainable - recycling waste of 3d-printing into new tools 01:17:48 - 3d-printing paper packaging 01:18:35 - Lots of plans and not enough time. Having and assistant 01:19:45 - iBookBinding's future as an educational project 01:24:14 - Biggest dream: to start series of bookbinding and book arts workshops for kids in different countries 01:27:23 - French and Spanish versions of iBookBinding's podcast - we need your help! 01:28:31 - What changes are awaiting the shop after it returns 01:29:41 - Free worldwide shipping and Etsy's policies
Thu, 25 Mar 2021 - 1h 38min - 38 - iBB Podcast #17.2 - Dimitris Koutsipetsidis - Bindings with Riddles and Layered Narratives
In the first part of our talk with Dimitris Koutsipetsidis, a bookbinder from Athens (Greece), we discussed the things that brought him to making books. This time we take it one step further and Dimitris shows us some of his bindings and tells us the stories of the making of these books. To watch all parts of our talk with Dimitris please use the following link: https://www.youtube.com/c/iBookBinding/search?query=Dimitris%20Koutsipetsidis Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Dimitris: Blog: https://koutsipetsidis.wordpress.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dimitris_bookbinding_corner/ Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheBookbindersBench Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Dimitrisbookbindingcorner/ Tools made by Dimitris: Blog Tool page: https://koutsipetsidis.wordpress.com/tools-for-bookbinding-εργαλεία-βιβλιοδεσίας Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheBookbindersBench 00:00 - Show & Tell: Bindings 00:39 - Shakespeare - Titus Andronicus. A story of obsession 07:29 - How Dimitris feels about this binding now, several years later 10:19 - The second attempt in entering a bookbinding competition 12:44 - A fantasy binding with layers, riddles, and secrets 19:29 - Codex Seraphinianus, Voynich manuscript, unlocking the secrets of books 20:57 - Shakespeare - Hamlet. Using letters as a book cover design tool 27:02 - Dimitris' approach to boxmaking and the ugly box Dimitris made for Titus Andronicus 32:29 - A stage of making a book that Dimitris enjoys the most 35:55 - Traditional and experimental materials 37:40 - Understanding leather 39:02 - Brexit and bookbinding supplies 40:33 - Using eel and frog leather 43:12 - The South Sea Scheme. Finding all the smallest details
Fri, 19 Mar 2021 - 58min - 37 - Architecture, Bookbinding, and Embroidery - Bookish Talk with Hannah Brown
We invited a British bookbinder Hannah Brown to discuss two of her projects. The first one is a binding with architectural motifs she made several years ago. The other is a board she recently made for a Designer Bookbinders' project. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX3iCxs8zGI Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Hannah's projects: Website: https://han-made.net/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hannah.brown.7169709 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hannah_brown_bookbinding/ 00:00 - Beginning 00:30 - Architecture and Bookbinding. "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798." 03:15 - What's a board? 05:01 - From an image to the binding's design, to making a board for Designer Bookbinders 08:24 - The use of embroidery in design bindings 09:44 - What was first for Hannah, embroidery or bookbinding? 10:42 - Embroidery on leather 11:54 - Sewing machine for working with leather 13:47 - Embroidery in the Medieval bookbinding 14:19 - Other bookbinders who do embroidery on their bindings 15:33 - Making wooden boxes for bindings 17:45 - Are there any plans to continue the project in the future? 19:45 - Is it harder to bind a book in an embroidered leather? 23:14 - Using polymer threads 24:24 - Making books that last for centuries 24:58 - Where is the binding now?
Tue, 09 Mar 2021 - 26min - 36 - iBB Podcast #17.1 - Dimitris Koutsipetsidis - Coming to Bookbinding via Linguistics & Leatherworking
Our guest is Dimitris Koutsipetsidis, a bookbinder and toolmaker from Athens, Greece. In the first part of our talk, we discuss his early career and the chain of events that lead him to become a bookbinder. In the second and third parts, Dimitris will show us some of his bindings and take us for a tour of his workshop: https://www.youtube.com/c/iBookBinding/search?query=Dimitris%20Koutsipetsidis Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Dimitris: Blog: https://koutsipetsidis.wordpress.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dimitris_bookbinding_corner/ Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheBookbindersBench Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Dimitrisbookbindingcorner/ Tools made by Dimitris: Blog Tool page: https://koutsipetsidis.wordpress.com/tools-for-bookbinding-εργαλεία-βιβλιοδεσίας Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheBookbindersBench 00:00 - Beginning 00:53 - Early career and decision to start making books and bookbinding tools 02:58 - Starting with leatherworking 05:04 - The first bookbinding project 06:07 - How much time did pass before Dimitris felt he had a new profession? 09:40 - Making books while having a solid background in linguistics 11:34 - What about any background in arts? Family collaborations 14:38 - Exploring the Byzantine tradition of decorating bindings 17:11 - Incorporating metal elements in bindings 18:27 - Having or not having your personal style 21:48 - Let's talk about clients and interacting with them 25:27 - The most unusual request from a client 26:28 - The pressure of the Byzantine tradition 36:38 - Teaching bookbinding during Covid-19 pandemic 41:55 - Being overwhelmed with orders during the lockdowns 46:42 - Is there a bookbinders' guild in Greece? 49:26 - What is a typical bookbinding enterprise in Greece? 50:56 - Apprentices and guild members 55:28 - Large trade binderies 1:00:06 - Being an artisan in a global market and globalized world
Tue, 09 Mar 2021 - 1h 06min - 35 - Design Bindings of the Booker Prize 2020 - Kate Holland - Bookish Talk #9
Kate Holland is a bookbinder from the UK. She was one of the seven bookbinders who worked on the six bindings made for the books shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2020. And she was the second person who worked on this binding you saw in the preview (picking up from Derek Hood). In this video, we discuss the peculiarities of the project and some other things as well! Read more about the bindings on our website: https://www.ibookbinding.com/bookbinding-styles/design-bindings/six-design-bindings-made-for-the-six-titles-shortlisted-for-the-booker-prize/ Listen to this episode on: - Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ibookbinding - iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/ibookbinding-podcast/id1510257102 - Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaWJvb2tiaW5kaW5nLmNvbS9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Q Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Kate Holland: Website: https://katehollandbooks.co.uk/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katehollandbook/ 00:00 - Beginning 01:16 - About Kate Holland 01:49 - Peculiarity of this Booker Prize project: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart 04:45 - Becoming a different binder for a single project 07:05 - Inspiration for the binding design 08:15 - Themes of the book 09:49 - Creating the cover design 15:04 - How was the work process, considering the unusual circumstances? 17:13 - Balancing regular orders, extraordinary projects like the Booker Prize binding, and having a job as a mom 19:39 - Having 2021 fully booked 21:35 - The leap from having a one-person business to having a larger shop and an assistant
Thu, 04 Mar 2021 - 23min - 34 - iBB Podcast #16.2 - Peter Geraty - More Bindings! Workshop Tour
With this video, we conclude our talks with Peter Geraty, a bookbinder and bookbinding teacher from Easthampton, MA. Peter shows some more of his bindings and after that takes us for a tour of his bindery. To watch other episodes we recorded with Peter Geraty please use this link: https://www.youtube.com/c/iBookBinding/search?query=Peter%20Geraty Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Praxis Bindery: https://www.praxisbindery.com/ 00:00 - Beginning 00:17 - 21st Editions: photographs by Herman Leonard 03:58 - Smokey marbling on silk by Regina St John 06:19 - Not forgetting to have fun 07:00 - Eikoh Hosoe: The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire 08:15 - Book boxes 09:00 - More about Eikoh Hosoe: The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire 14:14 - More about boxes 16:10 - Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott - the first SciFi novel 22:12 - Perfect imperfections 26:41 - An unusual box for an unusual book 29:03 - Workshop tour 31:23 - This is by far the largest shop we've seen so far 32:02 - Board cutter 34:34 - Board storage #1 34:40 - Future project waiting for its time. Having a year's backlog 36:49 - Some more presses 37:48 - Red board cutter 39:02 - Named tools 39:42 - Samples and models 40:12 - Smart mod of rail weights 40:55 - Cloths and other rolled materials storage area 41:10 - Under-the-ceiling storage 41:28 - Leather room 46:54 - Conservation by Desing green board storage 48:33 - The office and book collection 49:25 - Finishing room 49:37 - Finishing tools 51:52 - Type cabinets 52:12 - Stamping presses
Thu, 25 Feb 2021 - 58min - 33 - iBB Podcast #16.1 - Peter Geraty - Show & Tell / Bindings & Techniques
This time we return to Praxis Bindery, the studio of Peter Geraty. He shows us some of his bindings, discusses techniques, and shares some memories of old projects. In the second part of this podcast, Peter will show even more bindings and take us for a tour of his workshop. Watch this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFQIkFQ3tDI Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Praxis Bindery: https://www.praxisbindery.com/ 00:00 - Beginning 00:59 - Troubles of working with velvet: Trevelyon Miscellany - Folger Shakespeare Library 75th Anniversary Facsimile Edition 11:35 - Impracticality of binding in velvet 14:00 - Current project: embedding mirrors in the front cover. Edition of albums of works by Joan Miró 18:56 - Sanding edges of the cover boards 23:26 - 21st Editions, Wynn Bullock album with an unusual box 31:53 - Centimeters vs. inches 35:30 - Atmospheric conditions and their influence on books 39:33 - 21st Editions, Mitch Dobrowner: Stormy covers
Tue, 16 Feb 2021 - 49min - 32 - iBB Podcast #15.2 - Kathy Abbott - Workshop Tour, Show & Tell, Tomorrow's Past
In the second part of our talk Kathy Abbott takes us for a tour of her workshop and shows some of her bindings. We also talk about conservation aspects of her creative projects and Tomorrow's Past -- a project she's been a part of for some years already. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anucNDIWbQk Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Kathy Abbott: - http://kathyabbott.biz/ - https://www.facebook.com/Kathy-Abbott-bookbinder-713209642051535/ - https://www.instagram.com/kathyabbotty/ 00:00 - Beginning 00:08 - Workshop tour 02:40 - Board chopper vs. board shear 05:19 - Show & tell: design bindings, conservation work, and the Tomorrow's Past project 06:02 - Unpublished early Poems by Alfred Tennyson 07:38 - Poems and Pieces by Frances Meynell 09:15 - The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare 11:10 - Winged Chariot by Walter de la Mare 12:14 - Making design bindings for yourself and participating in competitions 14:08 - Benito Cereno by Herman Melville 19:12 - Tomorrow's Past: mixing modern and antique in a conservation-friendly way
Fri, 22 Jan 2021 - 37min - 31 - iBB Podcast #15 - Kathy Abbott - Male-Dominated 1980s, Restoration & Book Dealers, Islamic Bindings
Our guest today is Kathy Abbott, a bookbinder, bookbinding teacher, and book restorer (with a conservation lilt). We talk about Kathy's early days as an apprentice bookbinder in a male-dominated bindery, her experience in restoration while working at a rare books dealer, her shift to Islamic bindings, and her teaching experience. In the second part of our talk, Kathy will show us her studio and talk about some of her works. Stay tuned! Watch the episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkIeZbG5_yo Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Kathy Abbott: - http://kathyabbott.biz/ - https://www.facebook.com/Kathy-Abbott-bookbinder-713209642051535/ - https://www.instagram.com/kathyabbotty/ 00:00 - Beginning 01:00 - Being a female apprentice bookbinder in the UK in the 1980s 02:52 - "They didn't want me to work there. They thought they were offering me a job in the women's sewing shop." 04:43 - So what's the situation in the bookbinding industry now? 06:00 - At college with only one other female apprentice 06:37 - Trainees vs. apprentices 07:36 - New apprenticeship program at the Queen's bindery 10:46 - The current state of the Bindery where Kathy had her apprenticeship 11:24 - Changes that happened over the past three decades 12:53 - The moment when you realize "Now I'm a bookbinding master" and losing fear 14:45 - The disconnect between book dealers and book restorers/conservators 15:54 - And what about the ethics? 16:50 - Where do you draw the line? 18:40 - Detectability of restoration 20:43 - Reversibility 21:13 - PVA vs. EVA 23:53 - Rapid changes in the conservation field that happen every year 25:46 - Not hesitating to share work with other specialists 27:13 - Mold, fungal, and pest infestation 28:28 - Are book worms still a thing? :) 28:59 - Working with Islamic bindings 30:38 - Respecting the traditions and styles 31:23 - Minimalism in Kathy's design bindings 33:32 - Not limiting yourself with your own style 35:36 - Simplicity is often very deceptive 36:00 - Variety of Islamic bindings and styles 37:50 - Is there enough literature dedicated to the Islamic bindings? What other sources are there? 40:40 - Are the old bindings held in the collections of British libraries accessible? 42:18 - Kathy's teaching experience; Creating a book about bookbinding
Sat, 16 Jan 2021 - 52min - 30 - iBB Podcast #14 - Holiday Special - Rita Udina, Mark Cockram, and Ingeir Djuvik
We have something special for you! This time we invited three of our previous guests to talk about this past year and have some laughs. Hope we can cheer you up just a bit =) Watch this episode on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOa4EhdqKxY Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ 00:00 - iBookBinding Holiday Special begins! 00:52 - Latest updates from Rita Udina 01:46 - 17th-century book with a hidden cover 05:14 - Talking to Mark Cockram about the archaeology of the book 05:49 - From a 17th-century plague to our modern pandemic 06:44 - 'Christmas decoration' in Mark's studio and his classes in recent days 09:14 - Lockdown limitations in Catalonia and their influence on Rita's work 11:37 - Recent Mark's projects and how this year influenced the processes 12:44 - More buried books 13:29 - Ingeir Djuvik joins the talk 14:14 - Recent Ingeir's projects 16:22 - Three guests and three absolutely different workshops - new tools and gadgets 24:27 - Using the Little Giant for back paring 29:51 - Mark's experience with the Booker Prize bindings 34:45 - What design binding is? 37:32 - Binding a book on such a short schedule 41:24 - Making books for the Designer Bookbinders UK competition 44:41 - Unique designs for copies of the same book 48:39 - The process of creating a design binding 51:26 - Design binding as the alchemy of bookbinding. Unique style vs. repetitive style 55:18 - Using traditional elements in experimental bindings 58:16 - Books that tell more than the story that's written on the pages. Things we find in old books 1:00:09 - Binders bringing their life experiences to their bindings 1:03:20 - The importance of errors 1:12:56 - You can never finish your education 1:18:11 - Cultural appropriation and seeing yourself in others and other cultures 1:24:28 - Mark's experiments with the traditional Asian formats of books
Wed, 23 Dec 2020 - 1h 31min - 29 - iBB Podcast #13.2 - Peter Geraty - American Academy of Bookbinding / Show & Tell of Bindings
In this second part of our talk with Peter Geraty, we discuss the American Academy of Bookbinding and his role as the Director of the Integrated Studies Program. Stay until the second half of the video to watch Peter talk about some of the bindings he and his team made in his bindery over the years. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bef_mJFSqCE Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Praxis Bindery: https://www.praxisbindery.com/ American Academy of Bookbinding: https://www.bookbindingacademy.org/ 00:00 - Beginning 00:28 - Introducing the American Academy of Bookbinding (Telluride, CO) 04:55 - Integrated Studies Program launched by Peter at the AAB 08:28 - AAB Diploma vs. taking separate courses 12:53 - AAB facilities and vibe 14:47 - How much time Peter has to spend in Telluride? 16:41 - Combining the management of his own bindery with work at the Academy 18:55 - Three semesters at the AAB. Rotation of courses 22:43 - Price of accommodation in Telluride 24:10 - Sizes of classes 26:09 - Favorite students and favorite types of students 29:22 - AAB in 2020 and plans for 2021 and online courses 33:03 - Show & Tell of bindings at Peter's bindery 34:19 - Binding with a cover made of etched copper plate 39:06 - A texturized double goat-skin cover reminiscent of the Earth's surface topography 43:21 - Gilding 3 edges on 42 copies of a book 44:03 - Misery by Stephen King with typewriter keys embedded into the cover
Thu, 17 Dec 2020 - 49min - 28 - Introducing the Pianel Binding by Ben Elbel - Bookish Talk #8
This time we invited Ben Elbel to make a follow after his recent presentation of a new tutorial for one of the book structures created by him. Pianel Binding is a variation of the piano hinge binding and we discuss the structure itself, the history of the piano hinge binding, and the process of creation of these tutorials. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKCewZ-X1zQ Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Ben's projects: Elbel Libro - https://www.elbel-libro.com/ Bookbinding Out of the Box - https://bookbindingoutofthebox.com/ https://www.instagram.com/bookbindingoutofthebox/ 00:00 - Beginning 01:11 - Shifting to an online presentation of the new tutorial because of Covid 04:15 - There are 6 tutorials already! 04:38 - Introducing the Pianel Binding 05:43 - A brief history of the piano hinge binding 07:31 - Opening the book flat was one of the goals in improving the traditional piano hinge binding 08:48 - Other examples of piano hinge bindings 10:14 - How long does it take to make a Pianel Binding? 11:07 - Why is it possible for this binding to open flat? 11:49 - Cover separated from the book block 12:46 - The level of difficulty of the Pianel Binding 14:07 - Why Ben's bindings have slightly curved covers? 17:09 - Challenges of making a tutorial for the Pianel Binding 20:11 - How this and other binding structures were envisioned in the first place 24:48 - Is the creation process similar to other structures Ben created? 26:15 - Is there a chance for experimentation and variations with Ben's bindings and tutorials? 29:03 - Plans to introduce a French version of iBookBinding's podcast
Tue, 15 Dec 2020 - 32min - 27 - iBB Podcast #13.1 - Peter Geraty - Bookbinder's Apprentice in the 1970s / Studying Throughout Life
Our guest has been making books since the 1970s. He's a bookbinding teacher and owner of a bookbinding shop not far from Boston, Massachusetts. Meet Peter Geraty, head of Praxis Bindery and Director of Integrated Studies at the American Academy of Bookbinding in Telluride, Colorado. This time we talk about his early career, teaching and sharing knowledge, and always looking for new techniques and bookbinding tricks. In the second part of this video, we'll spend more time discussing the American Academy of Bookbinding. Peter will also show some of his bindings. Watch the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnh_74nyptM Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ 00:00 - Beginning 00:47 - Peter's first steps as a bookbinder 08:03 - Apprentice's path 09:58 - Why there is no place for apprentices in the modern US 11:40 - Consequences of having employees in your shop 14:02 - Looking for work in the before-the-internet era 16:13 - Bookbinding isn't a craft that brings you a lot of income 17:31 - Working with collectors 19:20 - Artistic freedom and customers' requests 21:39 - On fine binding and design binding 24:40 - Options for studying bookbinding in the 1970s and 1980s vs the modern time 28:07 - Sharing knowledge with peers and students 31:28 - French tradition of bookbinding vs British and American Jack-of-all-trades approach 35:32 - Is Peter working on all steps of the bookbinding process nowadays or he passes some work to his employees? 38:07 - Constantly learning new techniques and tricks 41:12 - Improving efficiency while doing large batches of similar books and boxes 45:26 - Errors and learning from them 50:24 - Using new materials 53:43 - Are there any national bookbinding traditions remaining in our global world? 58:15 - Learning new and different techniques with every available opportunity
Fri, 11 Dec 2020 - 1h 02min - 26 - iBB Podcast #12.2 - Ivan Gulkov - Workshop Tour and Show & Tell
The second part of our talk with Ivan is suddenly much shorter compared to our standard episodes. But I'm sure it will be interesting to watch anyway! Our guest shows his tabletop press here and shows many of his prints. Along the way, we discuss the technology and history of printing and even an illegal underground communist publishing house from 1905! Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFksazcTiMU Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Ivan: Portfolio: https://www.behance.net/oprion Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oprionus/ Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/27982742@N03/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk0q0mG3v6GP_24ex7davKQ 00:00 - Beginning 00:16 - Temples Series: samples of printed patterns made print printer's ornaments 01:18 - Printing on handmade paper 02:54 - Printing ink 05:11 - Tabletop press 05:51 - Aprons 06:29 - Some sample prints 09:06 - What do you do when you have used all of your Cyrillic letters? 09:31 - Comments on the underground printing press from our recent Bookish Talk 13:16 - Ornamental prints designed by Ivan and printed in Moscow 14:03 - Suitcase museum and Dime Museum tickets printed by Ivan 15:12 - A sample wood engraving 15:50 - Tetris-inspired print 16:23 - More samples of printed patterns 17:21 - The original "lorem ipsum" 18:19 - More ornaments! 19:45 - Journeyman printer's mobile printing setup
Thu, 03 Dec 2020 - 21min - 25 - Design Bindings of the Booker Prize 2020 - Rachel Ward-Sale - Bookish Talk #7
This episode of our Bookish Talk is a bit unusual because we have a guest. Rachel Ward-Sale is an award-winning bookbinder with many years of experience and the current president of the Designer Bookbinders. However, this podcast is dedicated to her design binding made for one of the six books included in the Short List of the Booker Prize this year. Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BkH5o20i9k Listen to this episode on: - Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ibookbinding - iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/ibookbinding-podcast/id1510257102 - Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaWJvb2tiaW5kaW5nLmNvbS9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Q Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ 00:00 - Beginning 01:05 - On the definition of design binding 03:04 - The process of creating the design binding for This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga 03:40 - Finding the imagery for the cover 04:10 - Tests with different designs 05:11 - First leather test 05:43 - Paper mockup of the cover 07:09 - Leather sample cover 07:21 - Endpapers 07:33 - Colors for the edges 07:37 - Elements of the book's box 08:34 - Connection with the Arts and Crafts tradition 10:04 - What happens to the design binding made for the Booker Prize after it's made? 11:52 - How much time did it take to create the binding? 12:28 - Isn't it sad to part with the book? 12:57 - Playing around with designs 15:15 - Referencing earlier works 16:30 - Layers and layers of patterns and leather
Fri, 27 Nov 2020 - 19min - 24 - iBB Podcast #12.1 - Ivan Gulkov - Being a Hobbyist Printer Today and in the 19th Century
In the previous episodes, we only had one guest not with a bookish profession but with a bookish hobby. Ivan Gulkov will be the second of our guests of that type. He's a hobbyist printer and in the first part of our talk with him, we discussed the history of printing and what it is to be a hobbyist printer in the modern world and how it all started in the late 19th century. Next week we'll post the second part of this episode. Among other things, Ivan invites us to a workshop tour there and shows some of his prints. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWTUJdzm10s Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Ivan: Portfolio: https://www.behance.net/oprion Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/oprionus/ Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/27982742@N03/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk0q0mG3v6GP_24ex7davKQ 00:00 - Beginning 00:47 - Becoming and hobbyist printer 01:56 - Moving from old computers to printing presses 03:51 - What is it to be a hobbyist printer 06:00 - Appearance of small printing presses in the late 19th century 06:50 - Ivan's tabletop press 08:33 - Small wooden printing press from Stepan's collection 09:12 - Linoprinter by Mattel 09:41 - Is there a society of hobby printers? 12:23 - Printer's starter kit and its value 15:54 - Hobby and professional type casters 21:03 - Gutenberg and his bankruptcy 27:11 - Fonts and copyrights 30:36 - Ivan's project to replicate fonts of Francysk Skaryna 35:19 - Printers' fingerprints on old proof copies of books 36:08 - A portrait of a modern hobbyist printer and the printers of the olden times 41:26 - Learning and making your first prints 43:53 - Journeyman printers 47:34 - Printer's fairs 50:35 - Modern printers in Russia 55:26 - Bookish people of the modern maker movement
Wed, 25 Nov 2020 - 1h 05min - 23 - Basel Paper Mill Museum - Bookish Talk #6
During this Bookish Talk, we discuss the Basler Papiermühle -- a late medieval papermill turned paper, printing, and bookbinding museum. Stepan visited this museum a couple of years ago, so that's not a very recent experience. Still, it should give a good sense of what it looks and feels like. Watch the video on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/S5yzLo4whVA Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ https://www.papiermuseum.ch/ 00:00 - Beginning 00:28 - Basler Papiermühle 01:06 - Importance of Basel's location to the development of book production 02:16 - Entering the museum 02:42 - A couple of words about the process of papermaking 08:01 - Collection of papermaking molds 08:22 - A mold for 3d-watermarks 09:50 - The difference between laid and wove paper 14:39 - Making paper in the museum 16:02 - Toilet paper 17:50 - Preparing paper pulp with fermentation and decomposition 18:56 - Papermaking mold made with a thread mesh instead of wire 19:09 - History of writing 19:30 - Calligraphy 21:30 - Paper marbling 22:11 - Early printing 24:07 - Modern printing 25:39 - Printing illustrations with blocks 28:55 - Offset printing 29:35 - Typewriters 31:38 - Bookbinder's workshop
Sun, 22 Nov 2020 - 37min - 22 - iBB Podcast #11.2 - Brenda Gallagher - Bindings' Show & Tell and Workshop Tour
This is the second part of our talk with Brenda Gallagher, a graphic designer and bookbinder from Boulder, Colorado. In this video, she shows some of her bindings and invites us to see her bookbinding workshop and printing studio. Please check the timestamps below. Watch the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW8KLHEiYoQ (and it's definitely worth watching!) Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Brenda: - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bgallagher4/ - Website: http://www.brendagallagher.com/ Read more about lacunose: https://www.ibookbinding.com/tutorials/lacunose-painting-with-leather-and-making-clouds/ Fish skin leather supplier in the US: https://www.fiskurleather.com/ Atlantic Wolffish photo credit: fisheries.noaa.gov/species/atlantic-wolffish Jeff Osgood, Brenda's husband on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clay.of.the.dead/ 00:00 - Beginning 00:32 - Workshop tour 00:46 - Bookbinder's plough 01:14 - Storage of materials 02:27 - Stuff on the workbench 02:43 - Bindings show & tell 02:48 - Uppercase Encyclopedia 08:08 - Song of Myself (Walt Whitman) illustrated by Allen Crawford 10:45 - Happy Abstract — A letter from William Blake to Thomas Butts, dated 11 September 1801 17:41 - A notebook with lacunose elements on the cover 20:19 - A word about book boxes 21:27 - The Girl from the Sea: A Play for Voices by George Mackay Brown and Michael Onken 24:38 - Discussion of the fish skin leather 29:29 - Homework binding for the American Academy of Bookbinding - graphite edge and edge painting 32:41 - Brenda's workbook with preliminary design tests and experiments 33:05 - Using computer software for designing bindings 34:38 - Bread bag tie binding 37:30 - Printing workshop tour 37:35 - Printing block with the engraved picture by Allen Crawford for the Song of Myself 38:13 - Backing press 38:42 - Guillotine 38:48 - Chandler & Price 8x10 printing press 40:07 - Brenda's family and her bookbinding
Thu, 19 Nov 2020 - 48min - 21 - Cryptic History of Some Objects from My Collection - Bookish Talk #5
We discuss two objects from my collection. A book and... something else. Both of them have something in common: after I got them, I searched the internet and found them being sold on auctions in the previous years. And, yes, I'm 99% sure these are the same objects I have now. Why am I so sure? What was their story? Should one use online price on old books as a benchmark? We answer all of these questions and more in this episode of the Bookish Talk! Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOUq_tHBJAQ Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ The Illuminator. Containing all the parts of The Illuminators Magazine & completing the subject - 1862 Old auction: https://www.catawiki.nl/l/36281941-barnard-sons-the-illuminator-containing-all-the-parts-of-the-illuminators-magazine-completing-the-subject-1862 About the book on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/illuminator-and-43385830 The book on Issuu: https://issuu.com/stepanchizhov/docs/the_20illuminator._20containing_20all_20the_20part Some illustrations shared on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CHBmojQJNas/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CHJMEwRpZPn/ Cliches for newspaper comics by Loek van Delden (1918-2004) - Smidje Verholen (nr. 1-35, 1958) Old auction: https://www.lotsearch.net/lot/loek-van-delden-1918-2004-smidje-verholen-46159074 About the artist: https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/delden_van.htm https://www.lambiek.net/aanvang/delden_avan.htm 00:00 - Beginning 00:56 - Introducing the objects we are going to discuss today 01:57 - Auction's page for the first object 02:25 - The Illuminator. Containing all the parts of The Illuminators Magazine (1862) 03:11 - A sidenote on facsimile reproductions 04:00 - Why am I sure that's the same book I got from a bookseller in the Hague? 05:14 - The difference between the estimate, the final selling price, and the price I got the book at the book market 05:49 - Should one use online price on old books as a benchmark? 08:06 - Moving to the second object 08:42 - Cliches of a series of newspaper comic strips by Loek van Delden 12:07 - Finding stories about vintage objects and their previous owners 12:48 - Should I do anything with these cliches? And a bit about copyright.
Sat, 14 Nov 2020 - 17min - 20 - iBB Podcast #11.1 - Brenda Gallagher - Graphic Design & Bookbinding / Study at the AAB & Teaching
I first met Brenda at the American Academy of Bookbinding in 2015. At that moment, she already had some 20 years of experience in bookbinding. If you add a strong background in graphic design, it's not hard to imagine that the result can be pretty impressive. And Brenda's work lives up to the promise and even exceeds it! Check the timestamps below, and stay tuned for the second part of this episode. There Brenda shows her bindings and invites us to see her printing studio. Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sCqeE9-Tn4 Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Brenda: - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bgallagher4/ - Website: http://www.brendagallagher.com/ 00:00 - Beginning 01:14 - Brenda's approach to bookbinding 02:49 - Dealing with virtual work vs. making real objects 03:46 - From the first bookbinding class to study at the American Academy of Bookbinding 07:57 - Other schools in the US that offer education in bookbinding 10:45 - Telluride is beautiful, but it's not very easy to get there! 13:55 - What is a beautiful book? 18:05 - On creation, protection, and destruction 22:09 - Being a bookbinding teacher 26:11 - Miracle of making a book from scratch 28:07 - Volunteering at the American Academy of Bookbinding 30:50 - Open-Set traveling exhibition
Tue, 10 Nov 2020 - 37min - 19 - 1.5-Square-Meter Undercover Communist Printing House from 1905 - Bookish Talk #4
Pavel takes us to what is probably one of the smallest printing houses that produced thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of copies of Communist newspapers in 1905 and 1906. It was a very successful illegal operation ran by Russian communists in the very center of Moscow. Watch the video to learn the full story and see some photos from the museum! You will see a lot of photos from the museum if you watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQv_llB8NfM Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/
Sat, 07 Nov 2020 - 26min - 18 - iBB Podcast #10 - Stopan - The New Bulgarian Bookbinding Tradition, Show & Tell, Workshop Tour
We talk to Kalin Daskalov - Stopan - a bookbinder from Bulgaria who tries to create the modern style of Bulgarian bindings from scratch. His works are heavily influenced by the folk art of the country but you can also see his personal style. Stopan speaks about his path to bookbinding and collaboration with his father, a silversmith. Then we have a show & tell and a tour of his workshop. Please check the links and timestamps below! Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl0iyS7zvZs Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Folow Stopan: - Website: https://www.iostopan.com - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iostopan - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iostopan Follow Stopan's father: - Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/i.daskalov.silversmith - Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/atelie.daskalov Follow Anna Markova: https://www.instagram.com/annamarkova_bookhist/ Podcast with Eliane Gomes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu-81ulWb8o Chelopek - the Bulgarian Bookvillage: http://knigini.com/en/home/ 00:00 - Beginning 00:22 - Musings on peculiarities of the Balcaniс languages 03:44 - Introduction of the guest 05:06 - The meaning of the pseudonym Stopan 07:07 - Was there a market for bindings in Bulgaria when Stopan started to practice bookbinding? 08:34 - Being the only licensed craftsman-bookbinder in Bulgaria's capital 09:18 - Reinventing the lost tradition of bookbinding in Bulgaria 12:33 - Chelopek - the Bulgarian Bookvillage 14:13 - What can a bookbinder teach their students 15:45 - A profile of an average Stopan's student 16:44 - "Knigovezets" is the word for "bookbinder" in Bulgarian 17:22 - When did Stopan start making books? The synergy of knowledge and skill after all these years 19:26 - Which techniques and approaches excite Stopan at the moment? 21:19 - One of the current projects - a book for which Stopan made all elements himself, including paper and calligraphy 22:56 - Shifting from design bindings to artist's books 23:13 - Stopan's father is a silversmith 26:17 - Artisans working as a family is a very traditional thing 27:11 - Traditional motifs in Stopan's work 31:09 - On Glagolitic script and calligraphy 37:13 - Did Stopan have any experience with arts prior to becoming a bookbinder? How a programmer's experience helps Stopan now? 39:49 - Designing patterns for the bindings. Drawing. Handwriting 43:06 - How Stopan's experiments with calligraphy began? 46:46 - Pen's made by Stopan's father 47:33 - Some more examples of Stopan's recent works / Show & Tell 48:36 - Diptych book 56:36 - Scroll in a silver encasement 58:15 - Market for unique book objects 1:00:00 - Isn't it a bit sad to pass your prize-winning book to a collector? 1:03:23 - Workshop tour 1:12:51 - You don't really need lots of space to start making books
Wed, 04 Nov 2020 - 1h 17min - 17 - Bookish Talk #3 - Looking for Bargains on Book Markets
Is it wrong to buy a book at a low price when you know its real (high) value? How do the street book sales in Bucharest and Sofia look like? What's special about the book market in the Hague? These are some of the things we discuss in this episode of the Bookish Talk! Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mrW9UgEld0 Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ 00:00 - Beginning 00:10 - Searching for a bargain on a book market / Checking prices online 01:47 - The book market in the Hague is one of the cheapest in Europe 03:02 - Good prices on books in foreign and obscure languages 05:17 - Book market in the Hague as a source for books in different languages 06:48 - Isn't it bad to buy a book for cheap when you know its real value? 08:21 - Where booksellers get their books from? previous owners of the books/collections 10:09 - Some ideas for future talks 10:39 - Books by Nicholas A. Basbanes 11:29 - There's no one true way to build your collection 12:03 - One of the special parts of Stepan's collection are the books that tell stories about their previous owners 12:52 - Street booksellers of Bucharest and Sofia 14:52 - Neighbourhood book clubs of sorts built around these sellers 17:18 - Pavel's experience with book markets 18:33 - Why antique books are so expensive in Russia? 19:13 - Pavel talks about book markets in Spain
Thu, 29 Oct 2020 - 23min - 16 - iBB Podcast #9.2 - Stepan Chizhov - 3d-Printing, How iBookBinding Works, and Workshop Tour
The second part of the episode with Stepan Chizhov acting as a guest is dedicated to more technical aspects of how iBookBinding works. We talk some nerdy stuff about 3d-printing in general and about making money with 3d-printing. You will also find a workshop tour here! Watch the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh-0ty4RZio Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ 00:00 - Beginning 00:19 - Making money with 3d-printing. Routine and time consumed on production 02:25 - Time spent packing the orders 03:57 - Increasing production efficiency with better/more expensive equipment. "Cheap" 3d-printers 05:47 - I want to try 3d-printing; where to begin? 08:08 - The models of 3d-printers I like the most (to date) 09:50 - Difference between the cheaper and more expensive printers 11:43 - Printing large objects 14:50 - Competition on the market of 3d-printed bookbinding tools / 3d-printed papermaking molds 17:33 - Improving the designs and following the requests of customers 19:47 - Examples of incremental improvements 24:32 - Book scanning frame for smartphones - show & tell 29:31 - 3d-printing workshop tour 30:59 - Some of the 3d-printers 32:45 - My first 3d-printer 33:24 - The largest printer I have - Creality CR-10 S4 34:19 - 37x37 cm papermaking mold / Printing large items in parts 35:17 - Calculations and 3d-designs that need relly powerful processors 39:51 - Workbench with woodworking and bookbinding tools 43:54 - My way of storing clamps 44:53 - Some of the weights I use for my projects 46:11 - I love buying things for storage and tools in thrift stores and on flea markets 46:48 - Book presses and sewing frames / Woodworking projects 48:10 - Cutting time-consuming processes / Troubles with stock and delivery because of the lockdowns 49:30 - Keeping work/life balance as a freelancer
Tue, 27 Oct 2020 - 51min - 15 - Bookish Talk #2 - Buying Books on Book Markets / Moscow and The Hague
This is the beginning of several talks we dedicated to antique book markets in different European countries and cities. We start with some book markets in Moscow and the Netherlands (mainly the market in The Hague). What's your experience with book markets? What else you'd like us to talk about? Watch the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sSPUyu3_qg See the timestamps below. Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ 00:00 - Beginning 01:25 - My personal preference: book market in The Hague 01:50 - Different book markets of Moscow 03:09 - Antique book markets in Moscow 05:00 - Books on Moscow's flea markets 05:43 - Unauthorized street sellers 06:32 - A seller next to the Red Square we remember since our childhood 07:34 - What makes an antique book market the best book market? My experience with the market in The Hague 09:43 - A bit about the history and organization of the book market in The Hague 10:33 - Book markets are much smaller these days (with photos) 13:57 - Are people buying books to read or for collections? 15:42 - Who's the main audience of the book markets and what about tourists? 17:37 - Go online and buy some used books! Support the sellers!
Sat, 24 Oct 2020 - 19min - 14 - iBB Podcast #9.1 - Stepan Chizhov - Origins, Studying at AAB, Making & Selling Tools to Bookbinders
This time Pavel decided to snatch the role of the main host from Stepan and made Stepan the guest of the episode. We talk about how Stepan's interest in books and bookbinding began, his studying at the American Academy of Bookbinding, and the process of making and selling tools for bookbinders. (find the timestamps below) The second part of the episode will feature the workshop tour and more! Watch the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVZmJ5p4F-o Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ 00:00 - Introduction to the second season of the podcast 01:00 - A word about the second podcast we started - Bookish Talk 01:53 - Beginning of episode #9 - Pavel is the main host now! 02:11 - The start of Stepan's bookbinding career 06:21 - The first bookbinding tutorial I ever used 07:00 - Interest in books as objects 10:19 - Making money from bookbinding 12:08 - Fast-paced bookmaking 14:15 - Beginning to learn the craft with rebacking vs full immersion with sewing signatures, etc. 18:53 - Studying at the American Academy of Bookbinding 26:56 - Some of Stepan's projects 30:58 - Implementing unusual materials in your bindings - including electronics! 32:20 - Following traditions vs experimentation 36:12 - Tools and toolmaking 43:11 - 3d-printing 45:13 - Busy time during the lockdown - lots of work, lots of pressure, and some delays
Tue, 20 Oct 2020 - 52min - 13 - iBB Podcast #8.2 - Mark Cockram. Workshop Tour and Bindings' Show & Tell
Our guest is Mark Cockram, a book artist, teacher, and bookbinder from London, UK. Mark is the owner of the Studio 5 Book Arts. See the timestamps below if you want to skip to some particular part of our talk. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzPreEm6GQo Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ To follow Mark's projects, use the links below: https://www.instagram.com/markbookartist/ https://twitter.com/markbookartist https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbuiGvf4CuYNSV6LNL7nu5g https://www.facebook.com/mark.cockram.9 Studio 5 Book Arts http://studio5bookbindingandarts.blogspot.com/ https://www.facebook.com/Studio5Bookarts/ 00:00 - Beginning of Part 2 00:27 - Adhesives - a hot topic! 01:44 - On collaborations with students 05:30 - Education, students, and empowerment 09:30 - A dyslexic bookbinder 11:30 - Beginning of the workshop tour. Why Studio 5? 12:07 - Equipment and the general layout 13:00 - Bookbinding ploughs, etc. 16:48 - Show and tell - Old and new bindings 17:56 - On the size of the studio 19:28 - The oldest tool in the workshop 21:13 - Finding a place for a board shear in a small studio 22:46 - Accumulating stuff for 17 years 24:03 - Buried Books project 28:58 - When damaged book loses its function (if ever)? 30:37 - What's a book? 32:29 - Ceramics and bookbinding 37:56 - Smaller books and strange shapes 39:52 - Hommage to Joseph Cornell 46:08 - Kinetic sculptures and bookbinding 47:40 - Box as an extension of the binding 54:37 - Book worms
Mon, 19 Oct 2020 - 1h 05min - 12 - iBB Podcast #8.1 - Mark Cockram. Beginning, Experiments, and Teaching
Our guest is Mark Cockram, a book artist, teacher, and bookbinder from London, UK. Mark is the owner of the Studio 5 Book Arts. See the timestamps below if you want to skip to some particular part of our talk. Watch the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUnFyGOVuYo Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ To follow Mark's projects, use the links below: https://www.instagram.com/markbookartist/ https://twitter.com/markbookartist https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbuiGvf4CuYNSV6LNL7nu5g https://www.facebook.com/mark.cockram.9 Studio 5 Book Arts http://studio5bookbindingandarts.blogspot.com/ https://www.facebook.com/Studio5Bookarts/ 00:00 - Introducing Mark Cockram 00:26 - Reinstalling Art Deco toilets to old buildings 02:47 - College: art and conservation 03:54 - Opening the studio and teaching 05:43 - Bookbinder vs. Book Artist 09:09 - Book as a universally recognizable object 10:37 - Breaking the rules 14:18 - Damaging books for art and teaching 15:21 - Books and microwaves 16:38 - Experimenting with materials 22:11 - Relation of materials to the theme of the book 23:57 - Clay from Singapore 27:10 - Public perception of a traditional book as an 18th-century binding 28:08 - Education and paying the bills 31:00 - Collections of modern bindings 34:38 - When a client asks to do something wrong 39:46 - Where Mark finds his inspiration 41:47 - Mark's collage work 47:27 - How the approaches change over the years 48:51 - Mark's current classes 52:47 - Setting students on a path 56:32 - Educational videos Mark shares on Facebook
Sun, 18 Oct 2020 - 59min - 11 - Bookish Talk #1 - Worm-Eaten Manuscripts
Pavel and I decided to try a different format. In this podcast series, we are not inviting any guests and just talk about some bookish topics. This time Pavel went to the Russian State Library to see some worm-eaten books. Well, the book he saw wasn't eaten by warms, but it has evidence of worm damage. How is that even possible? Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FD4LRa64nE Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/
Sat, 17 Oct 2020 - 15min - 10 - iBB Podcast #7 - Sophia Siobhan Wolohan Bogle - Save Your Books
Our seventh guest is Sophia Siobhan Wolohan Bogle, a bookbinder and book restorer from Ashland, Oregon. With her project Save Your Books, Sophia is also teaching at book restoration courses. both in real life and online. Our next guest is Mark Cockram, a book artist and bookbinder from London, UK. You can post your questions to Mark in the comments below, or send them through our social accounts and email. See the timestamps below if you want to skip to some particular part of our talk. Listen to this episode on: - Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ibookbinding - iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast... - Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR... Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ To follow Sophia's projects use the links below: For Book Repair Courses, Supplies, and Student Forum http://saveyourbooks.com/ For Photos, News, and Live Events https://www.instagram.com/saveyourbooks/ https://www.facebook.com/saveyourbooks/ For Book Repair Videos https://www.youtube.com/user/DIYbookr... === Table of Contents === 00:00 - Introduction 00:56 - On the difference between restoration and conservation 05:23 - On ordering the supplies during the lockdowns 06:26 - Sophia's workload during the lockdown 07:18 - Who are the clients of the Save Your Books project? How Sophia began her career in book repair? 08:31 - On importance of finding a niche 10:23 - Sophia's teaching experience 11:21 - Working in a used books store and the value of that experience 13:31 - Collecting books doesn't necessarily mean spending a lot of money on books 17:41 - Talking about Sophia's book Book Restoration Unveiled 25:28 - Courses Sophia offers on her website 28:42 - Paperbacks and their quality (or lack of the quality) 30:41 - On the difference between bookbinding and book repair courses 32:26 - Facebook groups dedicated to rare books 35:09 - The process of writing the book 37:16 - The difference in conservation and restoration approach for books and ephemera / Ethical aspects of book restoration 43:21 - Undoing previous repairs 45:07 - Is there any future for bookbinding and paper books? 49:28 - Sophia's introduction to books and book repair 51:32 - The first project Sophia was proud of as a professional 56:41 - Workshop tour
Wed, 08 Jul 2020 - 1h 03min - 9 - iBB Podcast #6 - Ingeir Djuvik - Award-Winning Hobbyist Bookbinder from Norway
Our guest today is Ingeir Djuivik, a graphic design teacher, and an award-winning hobbyist bookbinder from Norway. We have already talked to Ingeir not once on our website, but this is the first video interview we made with him. During the podcast, Ingeir shows and discusses several of his design bindings, including some of his old works. We also talk about his teaching experience, his tools, and his workspace arrangements (he makes books at his kitchen table!) Watch the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1TOaIs75Sg Our next guest is Luise Blackbird, a graphic designer, letterpress worker, and owner of the Trigger Press, a smart and sarcastic print shop in Scotland. You can post your questions to Luise in the comments below, or send them through our social accounts and email. See the timestamps below if you want to skip to some particular part of our talk. Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Ingeir is happy to answer your questions on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ingeir.djuvik === Table of Contents === 00:00 - Introducing Ingeir 02:00 - Ingeir's experience of being a bookbinding teacher 02:35 - Finding the mood of the book and its design binding 03:19 - Amateur bookbinder as in "not earning money from selling bindings" 04:41 - Ingeir's ambition for the future 05:29 - Polishing the skills vs. trying something new 07:00 - Experimental book structures vs. traditional bookbinding 08:34 - Does the design binding improve the experience of the reader? Ingeir's favorite books to make design bindings for. === Show and Tell === 09:12 - Vinterfugler (Winter Birds) by Lars Jonsson - two versions 11:47 - Leather inlays and onlays 12:19 - Preparing sketches and final designs for the bindings 14:57 - Where Ingeir gets inspiration for his bindings? 16:46 - Ingeir first bookbinding tutorial he's got when he was 12 years old 21:57 - One of the early design bindings Ingeir made - a book with illustration by the Russian painter Ivan Bilibin. This book has panels made with an ancient bog oak embedded in its cover 23:53 - Another of Ingeir's first bindings - The White Nile by Alan Moorehead. A book with papyrus embedded in its cover 25:22 - How Ingeir decorates book edges 26:21 - When and how Ingeir started doing bookbinding as an adult 20:10 - Being a bookbinding teacher 30:27 - Ingeir's favorite bindings 30:54 - Walden – livet i skogene by Henry D. Thoreau - three copies Ingeir made for his children 33:10 - Which parts of the bookbinding process demand the most from Ingeir? 34:24 - Current Ingeir's projects and participation in competitions 35:20 - Ørret by Lars Nilssen - a story of a trout from the egg to a frying pan 36:16 - Making a design binding for a book about flowers 37:25 - Importance of making boxes for design bindings 38:00 - Have any of Ingeir's books ended up in collections? === Tools and Workspace === 39:11 - Plans to teach online 40:08 - Ingeir's tools 41:19 - Ingeir's workshop
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 - 47min - 8 - iBB Podcast #5.2 - Katy Savelyeva @KatyEbru - Q&A
For the fifth episode of our podcast, we invited a marbler from Saint Petersburg, Russia. Katy Ebru showed us several marbling patterns right during the recording - you can see them in the first part of the video. This part is dedicated to Q&A. Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGdaewcqk08 See the timestamps below if you want to skip to some particular part of our talk. Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): http://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — http://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — http://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — http://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Katy's projects: http://www.ebruartspb.ru/ https://www.facebook.com/KatyEbru/ https://www.instagram.com/katyebru/ https://www.etsy.com/shop/katyebru === Q&A === 00:18 - Working with major Russian libraries 01:28 - Recreating existing patterns 03:17 - Question from Karen @indigo_craftroom: Katy's favorite paper to work with 04:33 - On the thickness of the paper 07:35 - Question from Eva and John Baines: Do you ever do tiger eye or sunspot patterns? What recipe do you use to get it? 10:53 - Question from Eva: Do you use oil or turpentine for certain patterns? How does that work? 11:16 - Question from Shannon O'Blenes: I would like to know what type and brand of paint the professionals use to get such bright colours. 11:44 - Making tiger eye pattern with acrylics 13:26 - Some differences between Turkish and Western marbling 14:16 - Marbling objects different from paper / Marbling fabrics 15:14 - Books covered with marbled cloth 16:03 - Question from Itzmalli Coca: How to fix color once printed? 18:21 - Question from Susan Burrows @susie_kitchens: Have pretty much tried every size and type of paint and just can't get a satisfactory result. Really wish I could get it right! 19:07 - Video tutorials and other videos from Katy 20:10 - Question from Janet Mente: Some days when I am marbling, things just do not work. I know there is a German book by a 19th-century marble entitled in translation "My struggle with Oxgall" so I know these things happen. So my question is: what do you do on those days? Do you give up? Start from scratch? Or try to fix the mix and, if so, how?
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 - 24min - 7 - iBB Podcast #5.1 - Katy Savelyeva @KatyEbru. Becoming a Marbler / Marbling Demonstration
For the fifth episode of our podcast, we invited a marbler from Saint Petersburg, Russia. Katy Ebru talks with us about her path to becoming a marbler and shows several marbling patterns right during the recording! See the timestamps below if you want to skip to some particular part of our talk. Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neGhdx4uRr4 Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): http://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — http://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — http://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — http://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Katy's projects: http://www.ebruartspb.ru/ https://www.facebook.com/KatyEbru/ https://www.instagram.com/katyebru/ https://www.etsy.com/shop/katyebru === Table of Contents === 01:09 - Katy's path to paper marbling 02:31 - Ebru vs. marbling 03:43 - Ebru courses at the Turkish Cultural Center in Saint Petersburg 06:58 - Transitioning from being a hobbyist marbler to being a professional === Marbling Demonstration === 08:43 - Stone marbling 15:21 - Chevron marbling and its variations 18:53 - Using a comb 22:31 - Better ways to remove the sheets of marbled paper from a basin 23:44 - Drying marbled paper 24:36 - Spanish wave pattern 25:25 - How long it takes to make a sheet of marbled paper on average? 30:30 - Ebru tulip 31:18 - On concentration of pigments 35:45 - The oldest marbling patterns 37:31 - Aesthetics of stone marbling 39:18 - Ebru rose 46:37 - Natural pigments
Mon, 25 May 2020 - 51min - 6 - iBB Podcast #4 - Rita Udina. Paper and Book Conservation, Studio Tour, and Q&A
Our podcast's guest is Rita Udina, a book and paper conservator from Barcelona, Spain. Rita shows her fantastic studio, we talk about her projects, and answer questions that were sent by our followers! See the timestamps below if you want to skip to some particular part of our talk. Watch the video: https://youtu.be/nhO9M8T7WRw Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): http://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — http://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — http://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — http://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Rita's projects: https://ritaudina.com/ https://www.instagram.com/ritaudina_conservation/ https://www.facebook.com/RitaUdinaTaller https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP4TxRLHICbqyaJO0ZDWfVg === Studio Tour and Current Projects === 03:12 - Beginning of the tour 06:01 - It's good to have lower and higher tables for sitting and standing work 06:49 - Lying presses and a plough 07:35 - Folded map in repair 09:30 - Pencil drawing after restoration 10:21 - Wet area 12:13 - Dry area 12:20 - Ledgers in restoration 14:14 - Book with a folded map that was restored 16:18 - Working on vintage and antique books with cheap paper covers 18:37 - Older spine found under a newer spine 19:39 - A way to reattach fragile paper covers to that type of books with Japanese tissue 20:56 - Covers waiting for paper pulp filling 21:49 - Vellum cover book with sever insect damage after restoration 24:56 - Making a book accessible for future use and research 26:01 - New cover with a cat's paw pattern inspired by an old cover and ethical issues that come with that project 30:47 - Question from Janet L. Mente: Do private clients ever ask you to "restore" a rare book in a way that is against the modern philosophy of restoration? 33:38 - Question from Tzvi J. Liberman: How do you restore gaps in pages using paper pulp? 41:40 - Balancing conservation, restoration, and introduction of new elements 44:04 - Routine and repetitive aspects of conservator's work 46:39 - Maintaining ritaudina.com in three languages 48:34 - On English words replacing terms and professional language in local languages 51:27 - Question from Piotr Wieteska: What are the proper ways of paper mending in restoration of torn pages? 53:37 - Question from Hans Christoph Ruber: I'm pretty allergic to it (breathing) & I often run into books that are slightly mouldy at the spine, just barely noticeable from a slight smell. Reading them at home is impossible, I have to go to a park. Is there anything I can do? 56:37 - Question from Hans Christoph Ruber: Our National Library in Vienna uses a recent technology, non-invasive, with vacuum bags with humidity indicator, wherein the book is placed for a few weeks. Unfortunately, they refused to tell me about the system, respectively, where to get the bags from. Is this already a known technique? 1:00:32 - Question from Ivan Gulkov: I have a relatively new book (about 5 years old) that has started developing some serious molding, that sticks pages together and shows as multiple yellowish spots. Is there anything that can be done to stop the spread? 1:04:07 - Question from Boris Horemans: Often with old books on history or geography, you find elaborate maps that are bound with the rest of the signatures, often resulting in torn and damaged maps. When rebinding these books, how would you incorporate these maps? 1:06:01 - Keeping and storing books that are not going to be repaired 1:07:52 - Cancelled courses and events and plans for the future
Sat, 23 May 2020 - 1h 12min - 5 - iBB Podcast #3.2 - Eliane Gomes / Nautilus Boekbinderij. Leasure, Study, and Q&A
The second part of this episode is mostly dedicated to the Q&A. However, we dedicate some time to discussing leisure, work-life balance, and keeping up-to-date with current restoration and conservation trends. The video version of this recording is available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDLQbKawlXQ See the timestamps below if you want to skip to some particular part of our talk. Our next guest is Rita Udina, a paper & book conservator. From 1999 she runs a private conservation lab based in Barcelona (Spain). Rita organizes conservation workshops at her studio as well as in other countries and enjoys very much sharing conservation topics, either teaching, attending conferences, or through her blog (in Catalan, Spanish, and English). Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): http://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — http://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — http://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — http://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Eliane's projects: Website: http://www.nautilus-boekbinderij.nl/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nautilus_books_and_projects/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NautilusBoekbinderij2015/ === Moving On from the Workshop Tour === 03:14 - Importance of staying up-to-date and continuing your education 05:54 - There no better time to learn something than now! 17:01 - Extra time is for extraordinary things === News === 19:30 - Sotheby's offering a full collection of ВС comics from 1934 to 2014 20:18 - Collecting ephemera vs collecting books 21:14 - Value and fragility of old comic books 22:15 - The craft is connected to the trade. The balance between the price of materials and the price of work. Dr. Nicholas Pickwoad - Language of Bookbinding course 23:32 - Paper clinic in NL, Marchelma van Breugel: https://snipper.eu/ === Q&A === 27:45 - Question from paperetceteras: Working with glues and paper, is it tricky? 30:36 - Using dry or liquified glues and paste depending on materials and other conditions 33:24 - Question from Elin Dalstål: What is the most unusual/unexpected material or tool you like to use for bookbinding or book restoration? 33:38 - Using the airbrush for book restoration projects 34:25 - Tacking iron 34:36 - Using all sorts of unusual leathers 37:31 - Experimenting with different materials in bookbinding: metal, plastic, wood, etc. 38:03 - Gluing and attaching translucent plastic materials to book covers 40:07 - Sharing experience with other bookbinders and book professionals 42:14 - Question from Lynne: What exactly is a waste sheet used for in binding, either in a new book or a repair? 46:31 - Unfinished projects 47:30 - Question from Vinícius Rennó: How can I study book restoration coming from Brazil? If not here, where is the most affordable place to study abroad? 51:32 - The difference between a book restorer and conservator 53:16 - Question from Peter Triska: A question is about headbands. How do you get the ends to hide, so you don’t see them when you open a book? 55:04 - Perfection in bookbinding is relatively new 55:47 - Question from Janet Mente: What is the most satisfying part of your job as a binder/restorer? 57:46 - Question from Janet Mente: How do you or would you use the 3D-Printed Spine Rounding Tool? 1:02:33 - Question from Tzvi J. Liberman: What methods are used for restoring the physical page of a book if a piece is missing? Is there any way to mix up the new matching paper pulp and fill in the gaps? 1:03:18 - "Cutting" Japanese paper with a watercolor pencil 1:06:11 - Using a paper casting machine and working without it 1:05:51 - Question from Tzvi J. Liberman: How do you prevent the endpaper wrinkling when gluing in the text block? The books I have bound all end up with a crease in the endpaper on the cover side, usually near the fold?
Sat, 16 May 2020 - 1h 18min - 4 - iBB Podcast #3.1 - Eliane Gomes / Nautilus Boekbinderij. What Is Book Restoration? 3x4m Studio Tour
Our podcast's guest is Eliane Gomes, a Brazilian/Dutch book restorer and bookbinder, owner of the Nautilus Boekbinderij in Haarlem, Netherlands. I already had several collaborations with her and posted a studio tour on iBookBinding.com: https://wp.me/p7VeMV-5qf This is the first part of the episode we recorded last week. We discuss how Eliane became a book restorer after a long corporate career and how her work is organized now. We talk about the differences between book repair, restoration, and conservation. And then Eliane shows around her small but very efficient studio! The video version of this recording is available on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/bu-81ulWb8o See the timestamps below if you want to skip to some particular part of our talk. The second part of this episode is dedicated to Q&A and will be uploaded in a couple of days. Our next guest is Rita Udina, a paper & book conservator. From 1999 she runs a private conservation lab based in Barcelona (Spain). Rita organizes conservation workshops at her studio as well as in other countries and enjoys very much sharing conservation topics, either teaching, attending conferences, or through her blog (in Catalan, Spanish, and English). You can ask Rita questions either by posting a comment below, by writing to us through any of our social accounts, or via email. Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding You can ask our future guests questions on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/TJY5FeS Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ 01:55 - Eliane's path to bookbinding 05:02 - Choosing between conservation and restoration 06:31 - Genesis of conservation as a profession after the 1966 flood in Florence 08:08 - Having a "restoration buddy"/mentor 08:40 - Importance of knowing your limits 10:03 - Book repair is not book restoration 10:29 - One of Eliane's restoration exam's projects 11:09 - Using reversible materials 12:59 - Eliane's clientele and the regional distribution 15:18 - What are the boring and routine parts of being a book restorer? 16:33 - Preparing a report and having a plan 18:38 - Fixing a mistake 19:02 - Importance of not underevaluating your work 19:26 - Keeping spreadsheets for calculating your prices 22:29 - Including all expenses into the final price of your work 25:29 - Recording and photographing your projects === Workshop Tour === 30:38 - Workshop Tour 30:48 - 3x4-meter atelier 32:00 - Skylight 32:13 - Drawers and cabinets 33:17 - Boxes and stuff under the workbench 34:25 - Having everything within arm's reach in a small studio 35:18 - Swivel jointed finishing stand by Geert van Daal 36:04 - Using a whiteboard for thoughts and drawings 36:19 - Humidity control, sterilization, and fire safety === Some of the Projects === 37:28 - 16th-century book with doodles and cut-out decorated initials in restoration 39:05 - Company archive / several volumes of corporate scrapbooks 40:02 - Punching cradle from iBookBinding and its place on the wall 41:31 - Large format Dutch limp binding - cash register book === Additional Links === 1966 Flood of Florence conservation measures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_flood_of_the_Arno#Conservation_measures Swivel jointed finishing stand: http://geertvandaal.nl/images/VerguldklemFolderdef.pdf http://geertvandaal.nl/
Mon, 11 May 2020 - 48min - 3 - iBB Podcast #2. Todd Davis / Middlesex Bindery - Bookbinding as a Third Career, Lockdown, Q&A
Our guest is Todd Davis, a bookbinder and book repair master from Boston. Todd has chosen bookbinding as his third career some six years ago and has been working in his studio in Lowell, MA, for the past four years. We talk about his path to bookbinding, his study at the North Bennet Street School in Boston. As well as the current state of affairs during the lockdown, and reply to several questions that were sent by the members of our community for the Q&A section of the podcast. You'll find the table of contents with timestamps below. Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Our podcast's next guest is Eliane Gomes (@nautilus_books_and_projects), a Brazilian/Dutch book restorer and bookbinder from Haarlem, Netherlands. I already had several collaborations with her and posted a studio tour on iBookBinding.com. We plan to talk about her past and current projects, important aspects of book restoration, and there will be a workshop tour as well. If you'd like to ask Eliane some questions, just reply to this email. There will be a giveaway, and this time I'm offering a set of magnetic corner clamps for boxmaking. The person who asks a question that Eliane will like the most will get that set (worldwide shipping covered.) Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Join us on: Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/cxMw7x5 Pinterest — https://ru.pinterest.com/iBookBinding/ 00:26 - Beginning of Todd's career in history and software engineering 04:20 - Making a decision to get a real job 06:00 - North Bennet Street School in Boston 06:41 - Getting all bookbindery equipment in one lot 08:45 - Four years in the studio doing bookbinding 09:11 - Sliding into being a full-time bookbinder / Being a student-worker at the North Bennet 10:25 - Having a second source of income as a cushion while shifting to becoming a full-time bookbinder 11:15 - Getting the first large orders for the bindery 11:55 - The lockdown 17:57 - Doing bindery at least some business from home 20:07 - How do the clients react to the delays due to the lockdown 24:16 - Todd's plans on moving forward after the lockdown is lifted === A Bit of Show & Tell === 31:09 - Making round wooden spines for boxes using basswood - tips & tricks 36:26 - 3d-printing round spines with plastic - iBookBinding experience 41:15 - My everlasting internal battle because of producing more plastic tools with 3d-printing 41:43 - 3d-printed papermaking molds from iBookBinding 42:10 - How is the shop doing during the lockdown? 44:00 - Tools for boxmaking and prices on the brass tools 47:46 - Having beer and pizza video chats with co-workers and fellow artisans === Q&A === 50:07 - Q&A begins! 50:56 - Question from Sofia: Which was the hardest restoration Todd has made, and why? 51:16 - Wedding album with laminated pages and masking tape repairs 53:44 - Duct tape Bible 55:44 - Books that Todd wasn't able to repair 57:12 - Question from Sofia: Which materials Todd likes to work with? 57:21 - Back pared onlays 1:01:31 - Question from Justine about the irreversible mistakes 1:06:29 - Book repair, restoration, and conservation 1:08:29 - Being a bookbinder in Lowell vs being bookbinder in Boston 1:10:00 - Safety measures and super-sharp bookbinding tools 1:16:25 - Who would Tood like to see as future guests of the podcast
Mon, 04 May 2020 - 1h 21min - 2 - iBB Podcast #1. Ben Elbel from Elbel Libro. Part 2 - Tutorials, New Book Structures and Q&A
This is the second part of our talk with Ben Elbel. Here we discuss tutorials created as a part of the Bookbinding Out of the Box project, new book structures, and have a Q&A! Check below to find the table of contents with timestamps. You'll find the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE7TzQHxK38 In the first part of the podcast, we talked about Ben's path to bookbinding, and he showed his studio. Our next guest is Todd Davis from the Middlesex Bindery in Massachusetts, United States. You can post your questions to Todd in the comments below. The next Instagram live stream will be dedicated to trimming book blocks without any expensive equipment. Tune in next Tuesday, 5th of May 2020! Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Join us on: Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/cxMw7x5 Pinterest — https://ru.pinterest.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Ben's projects: Elbel Libro - https://www.elbel-libro.com/ Bookbinding Out of the Box - https://bookbindingoutofthebox.com/ https://www.instagram.com/bookbindingoutofthebox/ 00:08 - Building Bookbinding Out of the Box as a platform for innovative bookbinding for other bookbinders as well 00:48 - Ben's interest in bookbinding structures and innovation 01:07 - On bookbinding being presented by mass media as a medieval craft 02:25 - Moving to Ben's inventions: Pianel binding 03:06 - Question from Sylvie Camia about the Pianel binding tutorial 03:56 - The process of selecting photos for tutorials: they should tell the story on their own even without a text 06:27 - Difficulty of different Ben's tutorials 07:20 - Pianel and piano hinge binding in general 09:43 - Book Arts Fair in Leiden, Netherlands (Boekkunstbeurs,) and Bookbinding Fair in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, this November === Q&A === 10:45 - Question from Karim Shehimi about the Pixel binding structure 13:35 - Question from Hillel about case binding perfect-bound books 14:21 - One of Stepan's first projects: 7 volumes of Harry Potter bound in green leather 18:46 - Double-fan adhesive binding: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=double+fan+adhesive+binding 20:00 - Backing a book block made of single leaves 21:00 - Question from Alan Crawford about finding texts that line the spines of old books 23:47 - How the relationship between materials and labor changed over the centuries 27:07 - Question from Lydia Smith about cheap tools and materials for beginner bookbinders 27:45 - One of the first Ben's leather-bound journals and using jackets and other clothes from thrift stores for bookbinding projects 30:38 - Buying tools on flea markets and making your own cheap tools 33:52 - Being creative when you work without proper tools 35:10 - Using unconventional weights instead of presses: bricks, irons, etc. 38:28 - Question from Lydia Smith about glue for endpapers 39:00 - Using rollers for PVA 40:15 - Dilluting PVA and paste depending on humidity and elevation 41:14 - Question from Helen Wells about using decorative paper for covering books 46:50 - Returning to the question of making books on a low budget - using second-hand cloth Links and mentions: Erik Kwakkel - X-RAYS EXPOSE A HIDDEN MEDIEVAL LIBRARY: https://medievalbooks.nl/2015/12/18/x-rays-expose-a-hidden-medieval-library/ Paperbacking silk for binding books by Sage Reynolds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6SgeLid-rg Ben's video we discussed at the end of the podcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/B-UyBuipgI2/
Sat, 02 May 2020 - 53min - 1 - iBB Podcast #1. Ben Elbel From Elbel Libro. Part 1 - Path To Bookbinding And Workshop Tour
This is the first part of our talk with Ben Elbel from Elbel Libro bindery and Bookbinding Out of the Box project. We discuss Ben's path to becoming a bookbinder, and then he shows around his studio in Haarlem, Netherlands. Check below to find the table of contents with timestamps. The video is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1vdPIDR-Iw We announce our new giveaway on this podcast! Listen to it to find out how to get a set of our corner cutting jigs for free (with free worldwide shipping)! In the second part of the podcast, we will talk about Ben's project and will answer several questions that we received from our community. Our next guest is Todd Davis from the Middlesex Bindery in Massachusetts, United States. You can post your questions to Todd in the comments below. The next Instagram live stream will be dedicated to making a basic sewing frame with only the simples tools and materials. Tune in this Tuesday, 28th of April 2020! Brought to you by iBookBinding. Bookbinding resources and tutorials: http://www.iBookBinding.com Become a patron (and get more content): https://www.patreon.com/ibookbinding Join us on: Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/iBookBinding/ Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/ibookbinding/ Discord — https://discord.gg/cxMw7x5 Pinterest — https://ru.pinterest.com/iBookBinding/ Follow Ben's projects: Elbel Libro - https://www.elbel-libro.com/ Bookbinding Out of the Box - https://bookbindingoutofthebox.com/ https://www.instagram.com/bookbindingoutofthebox/ 00:35 - How to pronounce Ben Elbel's name properly 02:10 - Our first meeting in 2015 04:18 - Ben's Path to bookbinding 07:03 - Father's suggestion to study bookbinding and a year at Centro del bel libro Ascona === Apprenticeship === 13:33 - Looking for an apprenticeship 14:56 - Apprenticeship in Germany at Die Buchmanufaktur 15:38 - Learning to make things fast 16:03 - Usage of PVA 18:09 - Moving to London 19:20 - German traveling apprentices 22:20 - On taking apprentices at Elbel Libro 23:48 - Starting a career in bookbinding with or without education 26:00 - On the importance of learning French binding === Workshop Tour === 29:02 - Workshop tour at Elbel Libro 31:03 - Showroom / Visitor area 35:00 - Ground floor / Workroom / Storage 36:33 - Leather splitting machine in action 40:40 - Storage corner: leather, cloth, cardboard, etc. 44:34 - All the sorts of cardboard Ben has in his studio 45:50 - Superior board: Presspahn and Green Millboard by Conservation By Design (see the links below) 48:05 - Workbench 49:26 - Different heights of mine and Ben's workbenches Ben Elbel's shop: Presspahn: https://bookbindingoutofthebox.com/collections/products/products/presspan Own tutorials: https://bookbindingoutofthebox.com/collections/bookbinding-tutorials Crisscross binding book: https://bookbindingoutofthebox.com/collections/books-from-others/products/book-crisscross-binding-anne-goy Edgard Claes's piano hinge binding: https://bookbindingoutofthebox.com/collections/books-from-others/products/book-neue-bucheinbandtechnik-scharnierband-in-pergament-edgard-claes Links and mentions: Ben's first teacher at the city archive in Strasbourg: Bernard Santoni Centro del bel libro Ascona - https://www.cbl-ascona.ch/en/programm/ Regular teachers Ben studied from in Ascona: Edwin Heim (bookbinding), Henrik Roerig (conservation) Guest teachers Ben had in Ascona: Hedi Kyle, Cor Aerssens American Academy of Bookbinding - https://www.bookbindingacademy.org/ Die Buchmanufaktur, at the time in Göttingen (Germany), now in Wädenswil (Switzerland) Shepherds Bookbinders in London, UK - http://www.bookbinding.co.uk/ Book Works in London, UK - https://www.bookworks.org.uk/studio/ Boekkunstbeurs - https://boekkunstbeurs.nl/opening-en/ Green Millboard by Conservation By Design: https://www.cxdinternational.com/boards/bookbinder-board/ https://www.talasonline.com/Conservation-by-Design-Millboard
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