Bookmark Collector

Here is another weeks worth of bookmark links collected from around the inter-tubes from March 29 through April 4.

Please let me know if you come across (or have) a bookmark related link or announcement that should be included in the next Bookmark roundup.

Bookmarks In the News

Articles:

Over at the Ephemera Collector, Marty Weil has collected a set of links to tools and materials of interest to collectors of paper items - Link

Contests :

The Plainsboro Library in New Jersey is sponsoring an arts festival and they are inviting mail artists from around the world to submit a bookmark with the theme Cultural Crossroads - Link

Make Your Own Bookmark

A link to literacy themed patterns for cross-stitched bookmarks and a tutorial on finishing the pieces - Link

A set of images that you can print to make you own bookmarks - Link

A nice stamped bookmark with the recipe for making it yourself - Link

On-Line Bookmark Collections

Mirage Bookmark:

A two piece puzzle bookmark that promoted the Bellegarde sur Valserine comic book festival in France - Link

Coleccionista Chilena de Marcapáginas:

Olga has a display of her bookmarks at La Biblioteca Viva del Mall Plaza La Serena in Chile - her pictures are over a set of blog entries - Link, link, link

BiblioBuffet: On Marking Books: Laine Farley:

Laine has a collection of six bookmarks with a hotel theme used to illustrate her article on bookarks used as hotel and travel promotions - Link

Marcapaginas: Natalia

Bookmarks commemorating the poet Federico Garcia Lorca - Link

Inside Books: Bookmark of the Week:

A very interesting, historic bookmark that appears to be a check-out record from a library in the London Underground - Link

Punto de Papel:

María Rosa has a post with three bookmark sets. Each set consists of illustrations based on the writings of a single author - Link

Here’s a second group of bookmark sets based on the writings of well known authors - Link

Mondopunt:

A set of bookmarks with a Solidarity theme - Link

Miscellaneous:

A beautiful, handmade paper bookmark made by Harvestorm for her husband - Link

An interesting, stitched bookmark made by Needlewoman as part of a challenge - Link

Yet another bookmark made as part of a challenge, made from paper and ribbon by Distinctly Daisy - Link

Lampwork artist Isinglas Design posted an image of the bookmark created as a promotional item - Link

A lovely, stitched bookmark with a lovely story behind it - Link