Bookmark Collector

A much more respectable week as we saw the return of a couple of blog posters as well as a lot of new hand-crafters. So here are this week’s bookmark related links, from September 19 through September 25.
Enjoy!
Bookmarks In the News
Articles:
Dictionaries and bookmarks were given to every third grader in Washington County (Maryland) [...]

So here’s what I’ve been hinting at the last few weeks. February 20 and 21, 2010 there’s going to be a convention. A Virtual Convention, right here on the internet. And it’s for Bookmark Collectors.
I’ve been laying the groundwork and checking in with other bookmark bloggers and manufacturers, just making sure I wasn’t onto some [...]

The hectic days of summer have finally taken their toll on me and so I missed last week’s post. Between business travel, hobby conventions, and family visits I anticipate an occasional dropped post, but I promise to catch up on the next one. For instance, this post has two weeks worth of bookmark related links, [...]

This was a relatively quiet week for bookmark related links, but here are the ones that I found, from June 28 through July 4.
Enjoy!
Bookmarks In the News
Articles:
Frank X. Roberts at BiblioBuffet discusses his collection of bookmark allusions, a new wrikle on this hobby that has me completely intrigued – Link
A very unfortunate story about some [...]

I’m on the road again, and so this post is a couple of days late. Here are the bookmark related links that I found from June 14 through June 20.
Enjoy!
Bookmarks In the News
Articles:
One writer’s experience (Wilfred Bereswill) creating a bookmark to promote his book – Link
A Google search on the phrase “antique bookmark” provided Lauren [...]

I was out of town at my niece’s graduation this weekend, and my return was delayed due to a malfunctioning airplane. So now, just a couple of days late, here are the bookmark related links that I’ve found from May 17 through May 23.
Enjoy!
Bookmarks In the News
Articles:
Inspired by a lovely collection of antique advertising [...]

Bookmarks collected from 23 Feb. to 29 Feb. 2009 (Happy Leap Day!).
Bookmarks in the News
Articles:
Lauren at BiblioBuffet has an interview with the owner of Papilionaceous, a silk weaving company which manufactures a line of bookmarks – Link
Swaps:
Tammy (cupcake) at Crafter’s Community is sponsoring a book and bookmark swap – Link
Contests:
The Ransom Library in Michigan is [...]

Once again, the Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol is sponsoring their Bookmarks exhibition. This year it’s Bookmarks V. I posted about last year’s project and I’ll shamefully admit that I never got out to see any of the exhibit sites. This year I’m definitely getting [...]

I wish I had a photograph of this bookmark. It’s at the Royal Brunei Museum in their extensive Islamic Arts Gallery. Unfortunately, they don’t allow cameras.
This gallery at the museum has an amazing collection of pottery, bronzes, weavings, carvings, weaponry, and many other forms of Islamic art. The museum is also known for its illuminated [...]

Since May of 2004, the Centre for Fine Print Research has been periodically putting on an amazing exhibition series called Bookmarks. The current exhibition is Bookmarks IV and runs from September (now) until February 2007.
Participating artists contribute editions of 100 bookmarks to be collected into sets. The sets are sent to galleries, bookstores, and libraries [...]