Arielle's Bindery
@ariellesbindery.bsky.social
(She/her) Book Historian. Bookbinder. Teacher. Librarian. DHer.
Two cats named Jack and Soot. 😺
Two cats named Jack and Soot. 😺
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I love this interview and the parallels between what he discovered as a historian making a thing and realizing all the little decisions a weaver makes in the process, and all the many things DH staff know about doing projects that just don't get written into the record of scholarship. #DHmakes
An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment.
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
Cloth and Complicity: Seth Rockman on Plantations, Textiles, and the Art of Weaving - Public Books
“But I had found a set of instructions in the archives of one of New England's leading manufacturers of low-end woollen cloth for enslaved wearers.”
www.publicbooks.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I love this interview and the parallels between what he discovered as a historian making a thing and realizing all the little decisions a weaver makes in the process, and all the many things DH staff know about doing projects that just don't get written into the record of scholarship. #DHmakes
Storymaps and rare books! Here at #GISdays at @westernulibs.bsky.social showcasing student work from my LIS course.
November 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Storymaps and rare books! Here at #GISdays at @westernulibs.bsky.social showcasing student work from my LIS course.
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Save the date: the 2026 DH@Guelph Summer Workshops will take place May 19th-22nd!
We are looking for folks to run workshops on UX, DataVis, and Videogames, with an emphasis on equity and diversity. Pls see full call here: www.uoguelph.ca/arts/researc...
Applications due December 15th. #DH
We are looking for folks to run workshops on UX, DataVis, and Videogames, with an emphasis on equity and diversity. Pls see full call here: www.uoguelph.ca/arts/researc...
Applications due December 15th. #DH
Summer Workshops
DH@Guelph 2026 Summer Workshops DH@Guelph is thrilled to announce that our annual workshops will take place May 19th-22nd, 2026! Please save the date! Every May for the past decade, the digital humani...
www.uoguelph.ca
November 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Save the date: the 2026 DH@Guelph Summer Workshops will take place May 19th-22nd!
We are looking for folks to run workshops on UX, DataVis, and Videogames, with an emphasis on equity and diversity. Pls see full call here: www.uoguelph.ca/arts/researc...
Applications due December 15th. #DH
We are looking for folks to run workshops on UX, DataVis, and Videogames, with an emphasis on equity and diversity. Pls see full call here: www.uoguelph.ca/arts/researc...
Applications due December 15th. #DH
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My blog post reporting on testing the use of agentic AI (the Fellou.ai browser) to start a research project on gathering definitions of the humanities: “Humanities Definitions Research Project: An Experiment with Agentic AI” (liu.english.ucsb.edu/humanities-d...).
October 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM
My blog post reporting on testing the use of agentic AI (the Fellou.ai browser) to start a research project on gathering definitions of the humanities: “Humanities Definitions Research Project: An Experiment with Agentic AI” (liu.english.ucsb.edu/humanities-d...).
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Was introduced today to the work of Olia Fedorova, who makes striking embroidered textile maps (among other pieces) about Ukraine. Adding this to my list of examples for the Data Visualization with Textiles class. #DHmakes
Maps of the Disappearing — Olia Fedorova
www.oliafedorova.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Was introduced today to the work of Olia Fedorova, who makes striking embroidered textile maps (among other pieces) about Ukraine. Adding this to my list of examples for the Data Visualization with Textiles class. #DHmakes
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The dh+lib Review is back for the fall! We invite you to join us as a volunteer Editor-at-Large (EAL). Our welcome event, open to all prospective and current EALs, will take place Tuesday, Sept. 16 at 2pm ET / 11am PT / 6pm UTC. 💻
Sign up to get access to our Slack and the Zoom link to the event:
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dh+lib Editor-at-Large Sign Up
Hi! Thanks for your interest in being at EAL with us! Share your contact information below, and a human will contact you about next steps. Cheers! <- dh+lib Review
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September 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The dh+lib Review is back for the fall! We invite you to join us as a volunteer Editor-at-Large (EAL). Our welcome event, open to all prospective and current EALs, will take place Tuesday, Sept. 16 at 2pm ET / 11am PT / 6pm UTC. 💻
Sign up to get access to our Slack and the Zoom link to the event:
Sign up to get access to our Slack and the Zoom link to the event:
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Fantastic little article about reproductions
Some reflections on replicas, the internet's untethering of information from reproductions of works of art, and a lovely email I received from a stranger one year ago.
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/8/30/will-the-real-hildegard-von-bingen-please-stand-up-its-replicas-all-the-way-down
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/8/30/will-the-real-hildegard-von-bingen-please-stand-up-its-replicas-all-the-way-down
Will the Real Hildegard von Bingen Please Stand up? It's Replicas All the Way Down — Sonja Drimmer
A year ago, I received a fascinating email from a stranger. The stranger was a man who had recently traveled with his wife to visit family in Germany and had decided to visit Bingen with the expectati...
sonjadrimmer.com
August 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Fantastic little article about reproductions
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That's so cool! icymi I've been thinking about speculation, coming from a slightly different direction - speculating about manuscripts that don't exist. idk it's all such an interesting area to consider www.dotporterdigital.org/speculative-...
Speculative Codicology - Dot Porter Digital
In March 2025, I presented a talk for the “Medievalia at the Lilly Library” annual event called “VCEditor as a Tool for Speculative Codicology.” I started the talk with a description of the VisColl Pr...
www.dotporterdigital.org
August 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
That's so cool! icymi I've been thinking about speculation, coming from a slightly different direction - speculating about manuscripts that don't exist. idk it's all such an interesting area to consider www.dotporterdigital.org/speculative-...
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over the summer I embroidered this giant tapestry about mill towns and textile strikes. now I’m working on another one about streetcar drivers and their militant labor struggle in the early 20th century!
November 19, 2024 at 3:20 PM
over the summer I embroidered this giant tapestry about mill towns and textile strikes. now I’m working on another one about streetcar drivers and their militant labor struggle in the early 20th century!
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Recently one of our manuscripts was rebound in modern conservation binding. Follow the progress, and an amazing discovery, as our Head of Conservation reveals the steps taken for this careful work
A deep dive in medieval manuscript binding 🕵️
www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/chr...
A deep dive in medieval manuscript binding 🕵️
www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/chr...
Chronicles of a Book Detective: The case of MS 328
A lost sewing structure. A trip to Winchester which turns up an unexpected clue. A conservator looking for answers. This is the case of MS 328.
www.corpus.cam.ac.uk
August 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Recently one of our manuscripts was rebound in modern conservation binding. Follow the progress, and an amazing discovery, as our Head of Conservation reveals the steps taken for this careful work
A deep dive in medieval manuscript binding 🕵️
www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/chr...
A deep dive in medieval manuscript binding 🕵️
www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/chr...
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Digital humanities folks: the #DataSittersClub really wants to hear your feelings about AI for our next book. We've got a short, easy survey with a box at the end where you can vent as much as you want. Please share around to DH-adjacent librarians, students, developers, all welcome!
DSC: Thoughts on AI and DH
We published what might turn into a controversial DSC book on AI, which will probably bring up a lot of thoughts and feelings from the DH community. We're already planning a follow-up book where were ...
forms.gle
August 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Digital humanities folks: the #DataSittersClub really wants to hear your feelings about AI for our next book. We've got a short, easy survey with a box at the end where you can vent as much as you want. Please share around to DH-adjacent librarians, students, developers, all welcome!
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The #DataSittersClub is back with @anasalter.bsky.social @lucidbard.bsky.social & @readywriting.bsky.social talking AI and pedagogy, with examples from the "DH Programming Pedagogy in the Age of AI" class. Even if you're anti-AI, please fill out the survey! datasittersclub.github.io/site/dsc23.h...
August 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The #DataSittersClub is back with @anasalter.bsky.social @lucidbard.bsky.social & @readywriting.bsky.social talking AI and pedagogy, with examples from the "DH Programming Pedagogy in the Age of AI" class. Even if you're anti-AI, please fill out the survey! datasittersclub.github.io/site/dsc23.h...
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Earlier this month I asked folks to let us know about the book labs at their institutions—You can still contribute info about yours here: forms.gle/HMZ8be5nmVnq...
As folks are contributing, this page will allow you get info about booklabs around the world: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
#dhmakes
As folks are contributing, this page will allow you get info about booklabs around the world: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
#dhmakes
August 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Earlier this month I asked folks to let us know about the book labs at their institutions—You can still contribute info about yours here: forms.gle/HMZ8be5nmVnq...
As folks are contributing, this page will allow you get info about booklabs around the world: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
#dhmakes
As folks are contributing, this page will allow you get info about booklabs around the world: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
#dhmakes
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The full LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography is here 🏳️🌈!!! 650+ items of LGBTQIA+ #BookHistory!!
Check out the intro to see how we made it, the primary bibliography, the article appendix, and the absolutely magnificent zine!!! From monographs to zines, you'll find it here!
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
Check out the intro to see how we made it, the primary bibliography, the article appendix, and the absolutely magnificent zine!!! From monographs to zines, you'll find it here!
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
August 23, 2025 at 3:28 AM
The full LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography is here 🏳️🌈!!! 650+ items of LGBTQIA+ #BookHistory!!
Check out the intro to see how we made it, the primary bibliography, the article appendix, and the absolutely magnificent zine!!! From monographs to zines, you'll find it here!
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
Check out the intro to see how we made it, the primary bibliography, the article appendix, and the absolutely magnificent zine!!! From monographs to zines, you'll find it here!
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
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@westernulibs.bsky.social #dhmakes illuminated letters for STEM camps
August 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
@westernulibs.bsky.social #dhmakes illuminated letters for STEM camps
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Lasercut blocks of some of this quote; thinking I'll surround them with the same text set in actual moveable type when I print them (cc @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social)
August 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Lasercut blocks of some of this quote; thinking I'll surround them with the same text set in actual moveable type when I print them (cc @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social)
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News you can use, BL manuscripts edition: Tl;dr you CAN download images detailed enough to teach from. Read on for a hack. #medievalsky #paleography 🧵
At the time of writing, links from www.bl.uk/research/dig... to the IIIF viewer are not working for me in Chrome but are in Firefox.
At the time of writing, links from www.bl.uk/research/dig... to the IIIF viewer are not working for me in Chrome but are in Firefox.
Digitised manuscripts - The British Library
Access 1,000 of our digitised manuscripts from the British Library archive, available to view in high definition
www.bl.uk
May 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
News you can use, BL manuscripts edition: Tl;dr you CAN download images detailed enough to teach from. Read on for a hack. #medievalsky #paleography 🧵
At the time of writing, links from www.bl.uk/research/dig... to the IIIF viewer are not working for me in Chrome but are in Firefox.
At the time of writing, links from www.bl.uk/research/dig... to the IIIF viewer are not working for me in Chrome but are in Firefox.
My indigo results with fabrics! Soot approved.
July 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
My indigo results with fabrics! Soot approved.
Spent today learning how to create a vat of indigo and dying Usu Kuchi paper! Tomorrow, we will play with dying fabric.
July 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Spent today learning how to create a vat of indigo and dying Usu Kuchi paper! Tomorrow, we will play with dying fabric.
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It's a two-blog-post-day! This one is "A Franken-Book-of-Hours: From Physical to Digital and Back Again," which I presented at Leeds in a session in memory of Johanna Green <3 Find out all about the weird book of hours I've been making since 2022!
www.dotporterdigital.org/a-franken-bo...
www.dotporterdigital.org/a-franken-bo...
A Franken-Book-of-Hours: From Physical to Digital and Back Again - Dot Porter Digital
This paper was originally presented at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, UK, in July 2025. It was part of the session In Memoriam Johanna Green, III: Digital Medievalisms and owes a huge d...
www.dotporterdigital.org
July 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
It's a two-blog-post-day! This one is "A Franken-Book-of-Hours: From Physical to Digital and Back Again," which I presented at Leeds in a session in memory of Johanna Green <3 Find out all about the weird book of hours I've been making since 2022!
www.dotporterdigital.org/a-franken-bo...
www.dotporterdigital.org/a-franken-bo...
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Studying #earlymodern #bookhistory, #rarebooks, or print culture? Antwerp’s Museum Plantin-Moretus & the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library offer unmatched treasures.
Apply for the Nottebohm Fellowship by October 1: museumplantinmoretus.be/en/page/fell...! 💙📚📜
Apply for the Nottebohm Fellowship by October 1: museumplantinmoretus.be/en/page/fell...! 💙📚📜
Fellowship Programme | Museum Plantin-Moretus
The Plantin-Moretus Museum and the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library (Antwerp) are pleased to launch a new call for applications for our fellowship programme. We will award two travel grants for res...
museumplantinmoretus.be
July 15, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Studying #earlymodern #bookhistory, #rarebooks, or print culture? Antwerp’s Museum Plantin-Moretus & the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library offer unmatched treasures.
Apply for the Nottebohm Fellowship by October 1: museumplantinmoretus.be/en/page/fell...! 💙📚📜
Apply for the Nottebohm Fellowship by October 1: museumplantinmoretus.be/en/page/fell...! 💙📚📜
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🚨 CATS IN MANUSCRIPTS, repeat CATS IN MANUSCRIPTS 🚨 exhibit opening at the Walters in August!
thewalters.org/exhibitions/... #medievalsky #baltimore
thewalters.org/exhibitions/... #medievalsky #baltimore
Paws on Parchment
This paws-itively adorable exhibition explores how medieval people thought about, engaged with, and admired cats in books from the period.
thewalters.org
July 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🚨 CATS IN MANUSCRIPTS, repeat CATS IN MANUSCRIPTS 🚨 exhibit opening at the Walters in August!
thewalters.org/exhibitions/... #medievalsky #baltimore
thewalters.org/exhibitions/... #medievalsky #baltimore
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While you were writing, engineers and product people were building. :) Bluesky doesn't really believe in user docs. Fortunately, Amanda Visconti has been an angel building and maintaining this guide.
A CTRL/CMD-F for "starter pack" and you'll be on your way. :)
A CTRL/CMD-F for "starter pack" and you'll be on your way. :)
July 14, 2025 at 4:18 AM
While you were writing, engineers and product people were building. :) Bluesky doesn't really believe in user docs. Fortunately, Amanda Visconti has been an angel building and maintaining this guide.
A CTRL/CMD-F for "starter pack" and you'll be on your way. :)
A CTRL/CMD-F for "starter pack" and you'll be on your way. :)
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I'm attending #DH2025 virtually*, but I designed my conference poster on my ZineBakery.com research to be as Visually Extra as possible (🎵rainbow leopard print🎶) to give me (& hopefully you?) joy, so please enjoy! (*bc of fascism vs. trans passports, & recently getting sick from people not masking)
July 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I'm attending #DH2025 virtually*, but I designed my conference poster on my ZineBakery.com research to be as Visually Extra as possible (🎵rainbow leopard print🎶) to give me (& hopefully you?) joy, so please enjoy! (*bc of fascism vs. trans passports, & recently getting sick from people not masking)