A compilation of guest workshops in Book Arts from the London College of Communication. Papermaking, bookbinding and a view inside the bindery! Book Arts Workshop Series from Marta Beltowska on Vimeo ..read more

Artist Nancy Gifford assembled 2000 plus book covers to create LAMENT, a bookish installation for the Requiem for the Bibliophile Exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara. Nancy Gifford says, "Lament is a poem of mourning. In the center of this melange is a restful place which represents the beginning of it all - The Word, as a stain upon the silence. Lament is a final bow to the book as a referential object. I ponder what books represent; knowledge, and how knowledge expands by a form of accretion, on fact upon another, till it becomes a body of knowledge. Lament is an accre ..read more

Image: Wen Zeng The companies that manufacture film - actual camera film - announced growth in the analog film category at CES this year. “We’re seeing film growth of 5% year-on-year globally,” says Giles Branthwaite, the sales and marketing director at Harman. “Our professional film sales have been increasing over the last two or three years,” confirms Dennis Olbrich, president of Kodak Alaris’ imaging, paper, photo chemicals and film division. According to Time Magazine professional photographers are primarily fueling this growth, thanks to a new generation of practitioners who grew up wi ..read more

a film on a working-class poet struggling to open his letterpress in 1970s Kolkata, India. chhapa trailer from Abhijeet Paul on Vimeo ..read more

Image: Chad Moore Digital photography has features to excite the average iphone owner: ease of use being the most obvious. But jpg files fall short when analog photography offers more than point-and-shoot's simplicity and swipe-left filters. Some of today's up and coming photographers are discovering (note, I didn't say re-discovering) the finicky art of analog photography. Film camera's can be picked up on the cheap through ebay and are gaining in popularity just like letterpress did not so long ago. For me, photography falls into three categories: Digital, Analog and Printed. Each has it's ..read more

Interested in book arts? Bookbinding? All things paper? Join the fine folks at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts (Minneapolis, MN) on Tuesday, February 28th from 6-9 for an evening of Letterpress, Screenprinting, Bookbinding and Papermaking: Letterpress: $35 ($30 members) Screenprinting: $25 ($20 members) Binding: $20 ($15 members) Paper Beater: $20 ($15 members) Papermaking (B.Y.O. Fibers): $20 ($15 members) More at http://www.mnbookarts.org ..read more

MASTER OF CAMERA from David Drills on Vimeo. "Gian Luigi Carminati is a passionate and poetic 76 years old man who spent his entire life repairing cameras. In his small workshop in Milan he takes care of old cameras with just a set of screwdrivers and a lot of patience ..read more

"For decades, elegant card catalogs occupied a central spot in the Library of Congress Main Reading Room. Before computerization, they were as central to the research process as a search engine in the present day. The last old card catalog was deemed obsolete the 1980s and pushed down into the basement, where it remains to this day." The history of the card catalog begins in Paris during the time of the French Revolution and ends in Dublin, Ohio in the 1970s. The purpose of the card in bibliographic cataloging has not changed during the years as much as the format of the card. The most beaut ..read more

Huzzah! Welcome to the new Rag & Bone Bindery website! We've been working for quite a while to get the site up and running and we're super happy with the results. In addition to a smoother checkout process, you'll also find more product photos, simpler personalization options and new product reviews! We're excited to get the site up and running before the busy holiday season. Look for additional features coming soon: buy more, save more; product videos; wedding registry; and more! From the technical back-end, our new platform, Shopify, is SOOOO much more elegant and simple to use than o ..read more

If you're like me, your first thought on seeing these chained books was the restricted section of Hogwarts library. Especially the scene when Hermione helps Harry prepare for the Triwizard Tournament and notes the only reason Cho is interested in him is because Cho thinks Harry is the chosen one. "But I am," Harry replies. I was curious about the filming location and here is what I found: "Hogwarts library and infirmary: Oxford University's famous Bodleian Library starred in 3 of the Harry Potter films. The medieval Duke Humfrey's Library was used as the Hogwarts library and the elaborate fan ..read more