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Newsletter #24 sent 3 October 2023 Contact us if you didn't receive it. |
Printable bookmark designs: see examples from previous years in the gallery. (go to Woboda page to download). Submit yours any time for 2024.
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Member Debrah Gai Lewis has created a section on Bookmark Quotes and Bookmark Allusions on her Mark My Place web site. The allusions were inspired by member Frank X. Roberts' chapter on "Is There a Bookmark in This Text" from his book St. Augustine’s Finger: Medieval Bookmarks and Related Topics. 7 April 2021
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A History of Collecting Bookmarks - by Allison C. Meier, in Fine Books and Collections, Autumn 2023
Meier summarizes a brief history of bookmarks and quotes several collectors on their interests and reasons for collecting, including several IFOB members. She concludes: "A bookmark may last longer than the read itself, moving into other books, roving to new libraries, and hiding within the pages until maybe decades later it falls out again into the hand of a new reader, offering a trace of who held this book before." 20 September 2023 |
Japanese Antique Bookmarks
Toshio Toyoshima has published a book on antique or vintage Japanese bookmarks from the Meiji period to around the 1950s. Japanese antique bookmarks, which have been little known until now, have a unique view of the world that is quite different from that of the West. 26 Jun 2023 |
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Member Profile 7 July 2023: Asim Maner Award Winner 2023 - Vilija Jocienė
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The Countries Gallery has seven handmade bookmarks from Uganda contributed by Helga Moghaddam 5 May 2023. She sent seven hand painted leather bookmarks from Uganda and two from Kenya. 27 July 2023
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The Bookmarks on Bookmarks Gallery has 4 new examples of humorous bookmarks featuring a stack of books with bookmarks peeking out, presided over by bookworms, a mouse and a turtle, all by Antioch Publishing from Laine Farley 27 February 2023
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