| Building With Books - http://courses.csail.mit.edu/iap/bookbuild/ Offers an alternative for disposing of undesirable books; build them into furniture. This site documents the creation and exhibition of lamps, umbrella stands, picture frames, and related objects, along with photographs of the process, and publicity posters. The project was the result of a classroom and library collaboration at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). - [Read more] |
| Book Arts Web - http://www.philobiblon.com/ Detailed reference site for all book arts. Includes a quick reference guide, tutorials, publications, image galleries, exhibitions and archives. Home of the Book_Arts-L listserv. - [Read more] |
| Guild of Book Workers - http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byorg/gbw/ The Guild of Book Workers is a national non-profit organization for book arts. Sets standards for bookbinders and provides information on bookbinding and printing. Broadens public awareness of the hand book arts to stimulate commissions of fine bindings, and to stress the need for sound book conservation and restoration. - [Read more] |
| Japanese Bookbinding - http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~dawe5/bookbinding_pages/BB_welcome2.html The investigation and production of archaic Japanese book-forms including details of sewn and accordion books. The research which led to this site was undertaken in the Bookbinding department of the School of Arts and Communication in the Faculty of Arts and Architecture at the University of Brighton. - [Read more] |