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Saturday, January 25, 2020

Fish skin fashion: a dying craft by China's 'mermaid descendants'

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A small minority along China’s ‘Black Dragon’ river have a long history with the water. According to legend, the Hezhen people descend from ...
Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Square Back Bradel Binding Tutorial on the Pressbengel

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What a delight to discover during a random web search... Watch Queensland, Australia based Darryn Schneider of DAS Bookbinding demonstrat...
Sunday, January 5, 2020

Fish Parchment and Leather Swatches

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A sampler of all the fish I've made parchment from. From top: mackerel, sea bass, lane snapper, haddock, Arctic char, Atlantic salm...
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Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Fritz Otto Doing a Colored Edge and Endband

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↣ Happy New Year 2020! ↢ Here's hoping we don't go too full-on Weimar, but some bindery projects will help keep us sane, may...
Monday, December 30, 2019

Sushi and a Philosophy of Craft

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Saw Jiro Dreams of Sushi last night, amazing food porn that was filled with thoughts about how we learn and master a craft, apprenticeship,...
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Thursday, December 26, 2019

Holy Mackerel!

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Fritz Otto's latest adventure. As usual, he only gets to do the dirty, thankless tasks, never the whole thing. At least the eatin' w...
Wednesday, December 25, 2019

The Hard Life of a Pressbengel

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Translation of "Der Pressbengel," from  Der Buchbinderlehrling , vol, 13, nr, 11, 1940. By Schlaghammer (beating hammer), pseudon...
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