Once again I’m off traveling this week (with new bookmarks to post, soon), but I was able to gather another week’s worth of bookmark related links, from January 3 through January 9.
Enjoy!
Bookmarks In the News
Articles:
Over at BiblioBuffet, there’s another one of Frank X. Roberts’ articles on the history of bookmarks, this time discussing the sordid practice of using whatever is at hand to mark one’s place in a book – Link
The Ephemera blog has an interview with Chuck Whiting, who collects book related ephemera (including bookmarks) which he calls “Bibliophemera” – Link
Here’s an interesting art project: NamelessleTTer encourages people to leave personalized bookmarks in books that other people can discover. Check it out at NamelessleTTer - Link
Contests :
The Friends of the Johnson County Library (Kansas) is holding a bookmark design contest – Link
Make Your Own Bookmark
A tutorial for making mini-bookmarks from fabric, at Meridian Ariel – Link
Bookmarks For Sale
Thanks to the Ephemera Blog, I found the Amazon list of top 10 books in the paper ephemera category, which included this Twelve Old-Time Cat Bookmarks book, which has links to the books in a very large series, each of which contain 12 bookmarks on a theme – Link
A. Nieman has her bookmarks on sale at her Etsy store – Link
Tiffany and Co. is selling a silver hookmark at a Tiffany price – Link
Here’s an interesting design the tests the limits of what’s called a “bookmark”: a lamp with a flat plate that can be used to save your place in a book – Link
Melody Leah Lamb’s latest bookmark design is a fund raiser for a dog rescue group – Link
The Flexlite Bookmark is another bookmark/booklight combo. There are so many of these I’m beginning to think that this should be another bookmark category – Link
Etsy:
Another Gorjuss bookmark – Link
On-Line Bookmark Collections
Marcapaginas: Natalia
Two puzzle sets of bookmarks featuring the actor Matthew Macfayden – Link
Punto de Papel:
For the 89th anniversary of the death of Benito Pérez Galdós, here are two bookmarks collected from the House Museum – Link
Mirage Bookmarks:
Several bookmarks showing Sisi, the Empress of Bavaria – Link
Mondopunt:
To celebrate 2009, the Year of the Gorilla – here are 11 gorilla themed bookmarks – Link
In this third installment of two part puzzle bookmark sets (doubles), there are 10 sets from countries other than Spain – Link
Hand Made Bookmarks:
A lovely tatted bookmark, at Needle Dreams – Link
A hardanger bookmark, by Aimetu (okay, I’d never heard of hardanger before: it’s a type of embroidery) – Link
Miscellaneous:
David shows off his copper bookmark from the De Young Museum in San Francisco (California) – Link
1 response so far ↓
Bookmarks // Jan 12th 2009 at 2:30 pm
I think if I got a really nice bookmark I wouldn’t be able to use it for fear of damaging it. That’s why I just end up using whatever is at hand, like that article talks about.
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