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Conservation Workshops In Djenné, Mali, 2015 And 2017, Michaelle L. Biddle Dec 2016

Conservation Workshops In Djenné, Mali, 2015 And 2017, Michaelle L. Biddle

Michaelle Biddle

A report on two conservation workshops Michaelle Biddle conducted in Djenne, Mali. The workshop in 2015 was about making lightweight all-in-one conservation boxes. The one in 2017 was a course on how to separate stuck manuscript pages using various humidification techniques. A syllabus for the latter workshop is included.


La Conservation Des Manuscrits De L’Afrique Sub-Saharienne.Pdf, Michaelle L. Biddle Dec 2015

La Conservation Des Manuscrits De L’Afrique Sub-Saharienne.Pdf, Michaelle L. Biddle

Michaelle Biddle

Traduction "Conservation of sub-Saharan African Manuscripts", The Annual Review of Islam in Africa 2013-2014, 12/2, 61-68


Bookbinding & Conservation: A Sixty-Year Odyssey Of Art And Craft By Don Etherington, Peter D. Verheyen Jan 2010

Bookbinding & Conservation: A Sixty-Year Odyssey Of Art And Craft By Don Etherington, Peter D. Verheyen

Peter D Verheyen

For those involved with bookbinding, book conservation, or with the Guild of Book Workers, Don Etherington needs no introduction – he has served as a teacher, mentor, and friend. Now, with Bookbinding & Conservation: A Sixty-year Odyssey of Art and Craft we can read about how he came to enter this field, was influenced by his teachers and mentors, and how he helped shape the world of bookbinding and conservation.

"Bookbinding & Conservation: A Sixty-year Odyssey of Art and Craft" contains a forward by Bernard Middleton, another leader in the field, and one who needs little introduction himself. It is …


The Changing Book: Transitions In Design, Production, And Preservation, Peter D. Verheyen Dec 2008

The Changing Book: Transitions In Design, Production, And Preservation, Peter D. Verheyen

Peter D Verheyen

This book review was originally published in the Guild of Book Workers' Newsletter, Vol 181, December, 2008.

"The Changing Book: Transitions in Design Production, and Preservation publishes the proceedings of the conference of the same name organized by and held at the University of Iowa July 22-25,2005. This conference tied together many threads, from an exhibition honoring the life's work of William (Bill) Anthony, the first conservator at the University of Iowa and teacher to some of today's best, to a "tent show" which gave the public the opportunity to learn about the book arts hands-on, to 19 formal presentations …


Bringing Us Together / Getting Us Out, Peter D. Verheyen Nov 1998

Bringing Us Together / Getting Us Out, Peter D. Verheyen

Peter D Verheyen

The past five years have seen an explosion in the use of the Internet by book artists both as a tool for communication and as a means of publicizing their work. Not quite as rapidly, but steadily nevertheless some formerly traditional book artists have left the confines and limitations of hot type on damp paper to explore the creation of "books" which can only exist in digital form. In this presentation, I will explore how both book artists and the book arts represent themselves using digital media and what I see as some of the implications for the ways in …