Neon catfish art. Found in the art building on the campus where I work
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Yup! Peter Verheyen and Donia Conn have written up some great instructions for how to make a German-style springback. Check them out on the Book Arts web! On that same site there’s also instructions for the English-style springback here. I’ve made both types of springbacks, but it’s been so long I don’t really remember which […]
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Disbinding a metal book
Today I dis-bound this book with a metal cover, so that it can go to the commercial bindery and get a new cover (the cover has gotten rather sharp and has been referred to as a ‘shiv’ by our cataloging department). Don’t worry, we have another pristine copy in special collections! This copy was our […]
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The Paper Project
The Paper Project This project chronicles handmade and mould made paper images produced by a scanning-laser confocal microscope. This type of microscopy is unsurpassed for producing sharp three-dimensional images and allows us to see not just surface features, but often all the way through the sheet. The microscope scans successively deeper layers of a specimen […]
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Superior, eh?
Well that sure is an awfully pretentious thing to call themselves.
Hi! A good rule of thumb for storage of paper items is that paper is the best way to store paper. Of course, you want to use very high quality paper filing supplies, so look for words like “buffered” or “acid-free” on the box. I highly recommend buffered paper folders to store the kind of […]
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Golden anteater
Check out this gold stamped anteater on the cover of this book! This is a 1914 edition of “Through the Brazilian wilderness” by Theodore Roosevelt, currently in our general collections. You can also read it online on the HathiTrust website, for free!
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The “uh oh” shelf
I think most archives have a shelf like this, for those things that make you go “Uh oh!”. In this case, it’s a couple of boxes of moldy/gross photographic negatives.
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This is an old-books-about-Egypt appreciation post. I love publisher’s bindings, and Egyptian art, so this was a fun excursion into our stacks. These are all circulating books, by the way, not part of our special collections. Also I can’t get over that typeface they used on “Redemption of Egypt”. SO pretty! Anybody know what it’s called, […]
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Oh my god I just made a protective plastic L-sleeve for a 5.5 feet (1.7 meters) long panoramic photograph and I just need to sit down for a bit now and catch my breath. It is longer than I am tall. That is a 15 inch ruler for scale, by the way. Did I mention […]