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February 2010

Embroidered Book Covers

February 17, 2010

17th century embroidered satin book with floral motif.

While researching book bindings for a project, I've been coming across these gorgeous embroidered book covers and bindings from the 16th and 17th century. Thought I'd make a blog post out of these exquisite works of art.. The original scans for the books are scattered throughout The British Library Database of Bookbindings. I've just selected, ...

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Hidden Treasure

February 1, 2010

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Now this was a lot of fun to discover. I purchased an old leather sewing kit. It was in excellent shape and apparently had nothing inside it except a rusty threaded needle and brown paper padding at the bottom. However, there was something quite interesting and well hidden wrapped in that plain brown paper. The mysterious ...

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