So curious about the gold tooling on this one—looks like contemporary bookbindings! (This is just a random example, but many look so similar to this Lady’s Companion.) Wondering if the circles of bookbinders and the folks who made these had some intersection…
September 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
So curious about the gold tooling on this one—looks like contemporary bookbindings! (This is just a random example, but many look so similar to this Lady’s Companion.) Wondering if the circles of bookbinders and the folks who made these had some intersection…
A 17th-century bookbinding in full bloom!
While screening the collections for books to show during a hands-on workshop on historical bookbindings, we stumbled upon this devotional book bound in a beautiful embroidered binding featuring flowers, usually associated with female makers and/or owners.
While screening the collections for books to show during a hands-on workshop on historical bookbindings, we stumbled upon this devotional book bound in a beautiful embroidered binding featuring flowers, usually associated with female makers and/or owners.
September 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
A 17th-century bookbinding in full bloom!
While screening the collections for books to show during a hands-on workshop on historical bookbindings, we stumbled upon this devotional book bound in a beautiful embroidered binding featuring flowers, usually associated with female makers and/or owners.
While screening the collections for books to show during a hands-on workshop on historical bookbindings, we stumbled upon this devotional book bound in a beautiful embroidered binding featuring flowers, usually associated with female makers and/or owners.
Interested in bookbindings?
Learn all about Greek-style bindings in early modern Venice in this talk and book launch with author Anna Gialdini in conversation with Nicholas Pickwoad
warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/greek...
8 October 2025, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
#BookBindings #EarlyModern #BookHistory
Learn all about Greek-style bindings in early modern Venice in this talk and book launch with author Anna Gialdini in conversation with Nicholas Pickwoad
warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/greek...
8 October 2025, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
#BookBindings #EarlyModern #BookHistory
Greek-style bookbindings in early modern Venice and beyond
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September 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Interested in bookbindings?
Learn all about Greek-style bindings in early modern Venice in this talk and book launch with author Anna Gialdini in conversation with Nicholas Pickwoad
warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/greek...
8 October 2025, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
#BookBindings #EarlyModern #BookHistory
Learn all about Greek-style bindings in early modern Venice in this talk and book launch with author Anna Gialdini in conversation with Nicholas Pickwoad
warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/greek...
8 October 2025, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
#BookBindings #EarlyModern #BookHistory
Czech books with bindings designed by Toyen published 1933-1936 in the Edice Symposion series
#Toyen #bookbindings
JHU PQ2613.I57 R41 1933 catalyst.library.jhu.edu/discovery/se...
#Toyen #bookbindings
JHU PQ2613.I57 R41 1933 catalyst.library.jhu.edu/discovery/se...
November 21, 2024 at 7:18 PM
Czech books with bindings designed by Toyen published 1933-1936 in the Edice Symposion series
#Toyen #bookbindings
JHU PQ2613.I57 R41 1933 catalyst.library.jhu.edu/discovery/se...
#Toyen #bookbindings
JHU PQ2613.I57 R41 1933 catalyst.library.jhu.edu/discovery/se...
“Books Within Books: Hebrew Fragments in European Libraries” is a project that has identified several thousand fragments that were reused e.g. in bookbindings. Such reuse is attested across all pre- and early modern codex-based book cultures. 2/
www.hebrewmanuscript.com
www.hebrewmanuscript.com
Books Within Books
www.hebrewmanuscript.com
November 3, 2023 at 9:07 AM
“Books Within Books: Hebrew Fragments in European Libraries” is a project that has identified several thousand fragments that were reused e.g. in bookbindings. Such reuse is attested across all pre- and early modern codex-based book cultures. 2/
www.hebrewmanuscript.com
www.hebrewmanuscript.com
I’d guess quite a few! Scientists at the University of St Andrews developed a nifty gadget that scans and measures the reflectance spectrum of bookbindings and they use it to detect arsenical books (with thanks to the Higgs Halloween annual lecture!) www.st-andrews.ac.uk/physics-astr...
November 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I’d guess quite a few! Scientists at the University of St Andrews developed a nifty gadget that scans and measures the reflectance spectrum of bookbindings and they use it to detect arsenical books (with thanks to the Higgs Halloween annual lecture!) www.st-andrews.ac.uk/physics-astr...
Register now!
January 17 (15.00h CET): Bookbindings Academy 2025 session 1.
Alberto Campagnolo: Carolingian-Romanesque bookbinding practices
Melissa Moreton, Suzanne Conklin and Ian McCallum: beaverskin and birchbark book covers
Registration: boekbandengenootschap.nl/activiteiten...
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January 17 (15.00h CET): Bookbindings Academy 2025 session 1.
Alberto Campagnolo: Carolingian-Romanesque bookbinding practices
Melissa Moreton, Suzanne Conklin and Ian McCallum: beaverskin and birchbark book covers
Registration: boekbandengenootschap.nl/activiteiten...
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Bookbindings Academy 2025 | Belgisch-Nederlands Boekbandengenootschap
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January 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Register now!
January 17 (15.00h CET): Bookbindings Academy 2025 session 1.
Alberto Campagnolo: Carolingian-Romanesque bookbinding practices
Melissa Moreton, Suzanne Conklin and Ian McCallum: beaverskin and birchbark book covers
Registration: boekbandengenootschap.nl/activiteiten...
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January 17 (15.00h CET): Bookbindings Academy 2025 session 1.
Alberto Campagnolo: Carolingian-Romanesque bookbinding practices
Melissa Moreton, Suzanne Conklin and Ian McCallum: beaverskin and birchbark book covers
Registration: boekbandengenootschap.nl/activiteiten...
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just saw someone with custom bookbindings and now I wanna learn and have custom binds on my halo books >.>
March 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
just saw someone with custom bookbindings and now I wanna learn and have custom binds on my halo books >.>
I spend a lot of time looking at & teaching about parchment recycled in the early modern era, not just in bookbindings but any place where a piece of durable parchment might be of use, like this clothing pattern cut from a saga manuscript (Magnússon Institute 122 b fol.):
handrit.is/manuscript/v...
handrit.is/manuscript/v...
July 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I spend a lot of time looking at & teaching about parchment recycled in the early modern era, not just in bookbindings but any place where a piece of durable parchment might be of use, like this clothing pattern cut from a saga manuscript (Magnússon Institute 122 b fol.):
handrit.is/manuscript/v...
handrit.is/manuscript/v...
I suspect that, when making this, my enthusiasm for #bookbinding and #bookbindings triumphed over snappy post length...
We're not asking you to *judge* a book by its cover (this one has some lovely artwork inside), just that you don't look past it! #Bookbinding #SpecialBooks #NaturalHistoryMuseum #Bookbindings #Doublure #FineBinding
Alt text: A video on the terminology, relative cost, and practice of binding books.
Alt text: A video on the terminology, relative cost, and practice of binding books.
May 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I suspect that, when making this, my enthusiasm for #bookbinding and #bookbindings triumphed over snappy post length...
Many Medieval Manuscripts Found to Be Bound in Seal Skins from the Arctic
An interdisciplinary team of researchers has documented the widespread use of seal skins in Romanesque bookbindings of manuscripts produced between the 12th and 13th centuries in Cistercian monasteries in France, the United…
An interdisciplinary team of researchers has documented the widespread use of seal skins in Romanesque bookbindings of manuscripts produced between the 12th and 13th centuries in Cistercian monasteries in France, the United…
Many Medieval Manuscripts Found to Be Bound in Seal Skins from the Arctic
An interdisciplinary team of researchers has documented the widespread use of seal skins in Romanesque bookbindings of manuscripts produced between the 12th and 13th centuries in Cistercian monasteries in France, the United Kingdom, and Belgium. The study, led by Élodie Lévêque and published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, combines archaeology, protein analysis, and ancient DNA to uncover the biological and geographical origin of these unusual bibliographic materials, previously invisible to historians and codicologists.
www.labrujulaverde.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Many Medieval Manuscripts Found to Be Bound in Seal Skins from the Arctic
An interdisciplinary team of researchers has documented the widespread use of seal skins in Romanesque bookbindings of manuscripts produced between the 12th and 13th centuries in Cistercian monasteries in France, the United…
An interdisciplinary team of researchers has documented the widespread use of seal skins in Romanesque bookbindings of manuscripts produced between the 12th and 13th centuries in Cistercian monasteries in France, the United…
I'm excited to be hosting Arthur Green of Green's Books next summer at Hereford Cathedral for his workshop on understanding bookbindings! Looking forward to learning lots & sharing our rather special collection.
October 26, 2023 at 9:51 AM
I'm excited to be hosting Arthur Green of Green's Books next summer at Hereford Cathedral for his workshop on understanding bookbindings! Looking forward to learning lots & sharing our rather special collection.
🔴The Daily Heller: Bookbinding Gems
Feat.: Judging a Book By Its Cover: Bookbindings From the Collections of The Grolier Club, 1470s–2020 at @GrolierClub
By Steven Heller @thedailyheller at @printmag
#bookbinding #exhibition #TheGrolierClub
www.printmag.com/daily-heller...
Feat.: Judging a Book By Its Cover: Bookbindings From the Collections of The Grolier Club, 1470s–2020 at @GrolierClub
By Steven Heller @thedailyheller at @printmag
#bookbinding #exhibition #TheGrolierClub
www.printmag.com/daily-heller...
January 19, 2024 at 10:51 PM
🔴The Daily Heller: Bookbinding Gems
Feat.: Judging a Book By Its Cover: Bookbindings From the Collections of The Grolier Club, 1470s–2020 at @GrolierClub
By Steven Heller @thedailyheller at @printmag
#bookbinding #exhibition #TheGrolierClub
www.printmag.com/daily-heller...
Feat.: Judging a Book By Its Cover: Bookbindings From the Collections of The Grolier Club, 1470s–2020 at @GrolierClub
By Steven Heller @thedailyheller at @printmag
#bookbinding #exhibition #TheGrolierClub
www.printmag.com/daily-heller...
Some beautifully #decorated #bookbindings from 1880 to 1910. I love them all [3]
January 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Some beautifully #decorated #bookbindings from 1880 to 1910. I love them all [3]
Beautiful AND informative. That's how we like 'em here @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social (London: Penguin, 1943 & 1945) #Bookbindings #Fungi #NaturalHistoryMuseum
June 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Beautiful AND informative. That's how we like 'em here @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social (London: Penguin, 1943 & 1945) #Bookbindings #Fungi #NaturalHistoryMuseum
A day of looking at bookbindings at the Royal Library of Belgium, hosted by July Van Malderen! Showing here some of the oldest bindings in the KBR, including the oldest binding from the Low Countries.
📜 📚💙 💎 #BookHistory
📜 📚💙 💎 #BookHistory
April 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
A day of looking at bookbindings at the Royal Library of Belgium, hosted by July Van Malderen! Showing here some of the oldest bindings in the KBR, including the oldest binding from the Low Countries.
📜 📚💙 💎 #BookHistory
📜 📚💙 💎 #BookHistory
Since it's #MAR10day, I'm gonna share the bookbindings I commissioned for @skyisagirl.bsky.social's Mario fics! If you want some fun noir-style stories, be sure to check them all out here!
Cover arts by @frayed-symphony.bsky.social and @jrpgdog.bsky.social.
✨: archiveofourown.org/series/1330814
Cover arts by @frayed-symphony.bsky.social and @jrpgdog.bsky.social.
✨: archiveofourown.org/series/1330814
March 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Since it's #MAR10day, I'm gonna share the bookbindings I commissioned for @skyisagirl.bsky.social's Mario fics! If you want some fun noir-style stories, be sure to check them all out here!
Cover arts by @frayed-symphony.bsky.social and @jrpgdog.bsky.social.
✨: archiveofourown.org/series/1330814
Cover arts by @frayed-symphony.bsky.social and @jrpgdog.bsky.social.
✨: archiveofourown.org/series/1330814
Bonus detail: this copy of Museum Plantin-Moretus is bound in a stunning #earlymodern binding with a blind tooled decoration: a presentation copy from Christophe Plantin to Abraham Ortelius, as noted in a handwritten title page inscription!
![Detail of the inscription that reads: 'Integeri[ssi]mo Abrahamo Ortelio Cosmographo Regio, Christophorus Plantinus gratitudinus ergo D. D.'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hoi7rsxw4y2k74pdmuqwxfhp/bafkreihmsaanhxqjgwcjc22afq32sbmdzvkjffnj4y3rhwemglqad5ga3m@jpeg)
July 31, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Are you interested in my bookbindings as well?
November 17, 2024 at 9:56 AM
Are you interested in my bookbindings as well?
New lobby display featuring select new acquisitions made by my colleagues and I just installed.
June 6, 2024 at 12:30 PM
New lobby display featuring select new acquisitions made by my colleagues and I just installed.
Don't lubricate your leather bookbindings. You'll get fat spew.
February 5, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Don't lubricate your leather bookbindings. You'll get fat spew.
The @bookbindings.bsky.social conference was a succes. Lovely to be there, talking about reused bookbindings with my colleague @daniel-ermens.bsky.social
November 24, 2024 at 3:30 PM
The @bookbindings.bsky.social conference was a succes. Lovely to be there, talking about reused bookbindings with my colleague @daniel-ermens.bsky.social
Obviously the profiteering douchebags selling them are a massive issue but you know what, if people didn't buy their overpriced illegal and stolen fanfic bookbindings, they wouldn't keep making them. Where there is a demand there will be a supply and this demand is actively ruining fandom.
March 13, 2024 at 4:04 AM
Obviously the profiteering douchebags selling them are a massive issue but you know what, if people didn't buy their overpriced illegal and stolen fanfic bookbindings, they wouldn't keep making them. Where there is a demand there will be a supply and this demand is actively ruining fandom.
Just listened to this on my way back to Hull from Maynooth. Such a great overview. From now on I'll be sure to check old bookbindings for a lost tract about cats.
In our new ep. Prof. Liam Breatnach @diasdublin.bsky.social explains what the medieval Irish legal material, esp. the Senchas Már ('great tradition'), can tell us about society. We chat cats, polygamy, legal disputes, lost texts, inequality, what people ate & more! open.spotify.com/episode/10nf...
Law and Society with Prof. Liam Breatnach
open.spotify.com
December 20, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Just listened to this on my way back to Hull from Maynooth. Such a great overview. From now on I'll be sure to check old bookbindings for a lost tract about cats.
@fordham.edu Talk in person and Zoom
From Catalonia to Yemen: Hebrew Manuscript Fragments and Jewish Bookbindings in the NYPL and around the World with LeorJacobi
Thur. Mar. 6, 5:30pm ET
Rose Hill Campus (Bronx, NY)
Or Via Zoom Webinar
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From Catalonia to Yemen: Hebrew Manuscript Fragments and Jewish Bookbindings in the NYPL and around the World with LeorJacobi
Thur. Mar. 6, 5:30pm ET
Rose Hill Campus (Bronx, NY)
Or Via Zoom Webinar
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From Catalonia to Yemen
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February 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
@fordham.edu Talk in person and Zoom
From Catalonia to Yemen: Hebrew Manuscript Fragments and Jewish Bookbindings in the NYPL and around the World with LeorJacobi
Thur. Mar. 6, 5:30pm ET
Rose Hill Campus (Bronx, NY)
Or Via Zoom Webinar
securelb.imodules.com/s/1362/18/in...
From Catalonia to Yemen: Hebrew Manuscript Fragments and Jewish Bookbindings in the NYPL and around the World with LeorJacobi
Thur. Mar. 6, 5:30pm ET
Rose Hill Campus (Bronx, NY)
Or Via Zoom Webinar
securelb.imodules.com/s/1362/18/in...