Paperology RAG

STILL SHOWING: ‘Art on paper since 1960: the Hamish Parker collection’ at the @britishmuseum (until 5 March 2023), featuring life drawings, portraits & large minimalist prints. Photo: #TiffanyChung, 'UNHCR Red Dot Series tracking the Syrian Humanitarian Crisis April-Dec 2012'

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There is not much AI on this feed, but this project does it! Interactive AI-powered typewriter 😍

Of paper-connected interest! penguinrandomhouse.com/books/669669/p…

For lovers of card indexes and medieval manuscripts, this one's for you! >> Virtual talk on Dec 9th. library.upenn.edu/event/card-ind…

@czeltsman Congratulations!!

if you are interested in finding and participating in an analog community, consider contributing to Ephemerata, a collaborative letterzine edited by @plaguelibrarian with contributions by book historians, archivists, librarians, booksellers & others. dm Joe for details.

Just a heads up that the hybrid (Zoom-Mtl) event "Fabricating Reams with Papeterie Saint Armand" is happening on Dec 13 -- organized by @McGill_ROAAr >> mcgill.ca/library/channe…

Inscription 3 on folds is incoming! A few copies remaining at inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy/

Brilliant!

Dans les rues de Rome au 16e siècle on pouvait acheter de quoi manger, prier, se chauffer, ressemeler ses chaussures, mais aussi des roses, des clefs, des tortues... Et de quoi lire et écrire. Petit 🧶 à dérouler sur la place du papier dans la rue à la Renaissance ⤵️ 1/

Twelve playing cards that an English privateer seized from French ships that were smuggling brandy in 1744. Sets of cards like these are common in the Prize Papers, but we never have a full deck. Why should this be the case? It turns out that they were not used for gaming /1

Fave thing about the Small Publishers’ Book Fair this weekend was hearing about Ximena Perez Grobet’s knitted edition of Finnegans Wake!

Papermaking image via @ArtsetMetiers

🧻 « Paperoles » : un ajout rédigé sur papier et collé à un manuscrit. Les manuscrits de Marcel Proust, au cœur de l’#ExpoProustBnF c.bnf.fr/Qqn, sont truffés de « paperoles » - la plus longue mesure près de deux mètres ! Pour en savoir plus : essentiels.bnf.fr/fr/article/0cc…

@GrovePressUK @AtlanticBooks @vintagebooks The Library: Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen A wonderfully absorbing and wide-ranging account of the rise and fall, creation, and dispersal of libraries from Greek and Roman times to the present day #HWACrowns22

World premiere! As part of our exhibition "Captured" & in collaboration with @letterlocking & @ghilondon, we are hosting an online event on 28 Oct. at 3pm on the Sjælland Letters, a letter collection @UkNatArchives showing unique letterlocking techniques eventbrite.com/e/the-sjlland-…

Beautiful snowflake watermarks! Anyone have any more information about these?