Seriously. It's made me want to investigate taking a bookbinding class. Just getting to gently page through books that have remained intact for 50, 100, 200+ years - and see others as old as five centuries ...
I learned a tiny bit about bookbinding during my calligraphy courses at university, and once had the privilege of visiting a nearby monastery library where some amazing old hand-written codices could be seen. The monk who showed them to us even turned some pages for us. I came to appreciate books as art, even while, a few years later, I went whole-hog into the digital age for my own reading and have never turned back.
The paper, the leathers and vellum or parchment, the inks and pens/quills/styli, the means of fixing colors to the illuminated page (egg tempera!), the gilding--it's an amazing and deeply engaging art, craft, and technology.
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Date: 2014-05-15 19:58 (UTC)The paper, the leathers and vellum or parchment, the inks and pens/quills/styli, the means of fixing colors to the illuminated page (egg tempera!), the gilding--it's an amazing and deeply engaging art, craft, and technology.