Bookmark Collector

Another week’s worth of bookmark related links that I’ve found, from May 3 through May 9.
Enjoy!
Bookmarks In the News
Articles:
Over at BiblioBuffet, Lauren is writing about Carrie Chapman Catt, inspired by a silk bookmark with the suffragette’s image - Link
Kat Rocha has a guest blog entry at Needle and ThREAD reflecting on books and bookmarks - […]

Here are the links I’ve come across in the last week (March 1 through March 7). Enjoy!
Bookmarks In The News
Articles:
Lauren at BibliBuffet has a nice article about phonographs which was inspired by a lovely pair of bookmarks - Link
An article about how Jason Milam started selling his hand-crafted metal bookmarks online (his sales link is […]

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 […]

I had the opportunity to meet Amanda Crawford and acquire a couple of her beautiful bookmarks. She had a booth at the Santa Barbara Book and Author Festival in September 2007, and her complete line of products (as well as some under development) were available to see and buy.
All of her products are bookmarks, but […]

Here are some more bookmarks I’ve recently found for sale:
Beaded Bookmarks from South Africa
Marcia Francois makes a set of beaded bookmarks in the book-thong style. I’ve linked to her blog where she posts images of her recent creations. She has quite a few available for purchase from her site.
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Walnut Bookmark
This is a nice looking wrap-around […]

For those interested in another outlet for your swapping obsession, I want to let you know about Swap-bot. I’ve recently joined their swap-facilitating site, and have participated in several of their bookmark swaps.
Basically, once you join there are approximately 500 active swaps you may participate in. All of them are arranged by other Swap-bot members, […]

As a woodworker myself, this article caught my eye. Alan Bradstreet makes bookmarks from wood in impressive numbers: 45 000 every year. And he down this by himself and by hand! I’m lucky to get one or two out a month just to keep up with my bookmark swaps.
The article describes how he came to […]

Antioch Publishing has expanded their recall of bookmarks due to excessive lead in the paint. There are now approximately 200 000 bookmarks recalled. This site has has some images of the metal bookmarks being recalled, so please check them out to determine whether you have any of these in your collections.
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Here are a few more bookmarks for sale:
KathyysKrafts
Here’s the latest Guinness bookmark from KatthysKraft over at Etsy. Keep in mind that she has a variety of hand crafted bookmarks and other decorative items for sale over there.
Link
Bookmark Books
These are lovely bookmarks that open up to have several blank pages available for taking notes.That’s pretty handy […]

Continuing my collection of links focused on Bookmarks for Sale, here are the items I’ve come across this week.
Handmade Bookmarks: KathyysKrafts
KathyysKrafts has three different handmade bookmarks which came up for sale this week. The first is the Guinness bookmark which she made from a recycled Guinness carton.
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The second is the Blue Moon bookmark. There appear […]