UPDATE ARCHIVE for 2022
APRIL 23rd, 2022:
The beginnings of the ORIGAMI(paper folding) BIBLIOGRAPHY is going live - only 300 reviews. That is a paltry number compared to what has been published on the subject. Sorry. The page is barely a start, but all my bibliographies started out humbly. As we've seen with the soft toy and tatting bibliographies, they grow bigger and stronger over time.
I've gotten so much new material in - a whole magazine box of paper doll newsletters, and a box of books about paper dolls, so you know there's going to be a page dedicated to paper dolls showing up in the future. The box of doll newsletters is only the very tip of that gigantic iceberg, so it may be a while - but it's coming!
MARCH 26th, 2022:
I'm way behind on these updates. I've been so focused on getting the real work done, that I completely forget to crow about it. I've gotten a couple more bibliographies set up. They're small, comparitively, but have enthusiastic fan bases, QUILLING(paper filigree) and SCHERENSCHNITTE(paper silhouettes). They are sharing a page because I've often used Scherenschnitte patterns for quilling(I can't draw).
This led me to set up a page for DOVER PUBLISHING INC(Mineola, NY) because they have done a ton of clip-art books, needlework works and pictorial archives - I'm betting a whole lot more than you realize. This page needs a lot more work and filling in, but it's a start. I'll keep filling in as I run across resources to do so.
And then there's been some gobsmacking developments in STRING ART(Symmography). I'm still working on getting permission to put up a picture of some of the art that has been done relatively recently to fill out my slide show on this page. I've filled out what I can of the bibliography, and only have a couple dozen reviews, but if you are relatively young, you probably haven't encountered this artform before. It really needs to be seen in person. I never thought it would evolve past the "Sailing Ship done on Velvet" phase, but you would not believe the photograph string art done in black and white, or the complex geometric forms being done.
FEBRUARY 26th, 2022:
I ran across a box of my origami books. That may have been a mistake. Because my time with the scanner is so limited every day, I can only get so much done on Doretha's Tatting Knots & Notes at a time. I am going to finish them this year even if it kills me. I am really looking forward to this pandemic being over. And for my work schedule to go back to something sane. I'm seriously considering taking a week of vacation, just so I can sit in front of the computer at home and get all the scanning done. It's been over a decade since I've taken vacation time to do something as frivolous as actually take a vacation - usually I take the time off in order to help Rick at the shop a week before a sale or to catch up the filing(back issue comics don't file themselves).
So, Origami. I've practiced certain traditional models quite a lot over the years since I learned them when I was about nine years old. The Cup, the Waterballoon, the Butterfly(no candy wrapper is safe from me, particularly foil), and an envelope that I learned later. I happened to be born in the Chinese year of the Wood Dragon, so yes, every time I've run across an origami book with a dragon fold in it, I've bought it if I could. And I love butterflies, so I tend to snag interesting butterfly origami books(Michael LaFosse, you ROCK!). And whenever I'm in a used bookstore, the section I go to after the SF are the craft books, and because they're usually pretty cheap, I pick up anything origami-related I don't have because a) you can't have too large a library of models, and b) I really want to find the library book that launched my initial interest in origami - I know it had those first three models in it, but I can't remember the cover or the author's name(I haven't found it yet). So I have a very eclectic origami library, and reading through them, I discovered interesting tidbits that elicited various internet searches, which led me to buying More books, and bemoaning the fact I hadn't bought a membership from www.OrigamiUSA.org years ago. So that's fixed now. Oh, they have a newsletter! And I can't find the index for it, or the digital one either. Heeere we go again...
JANUARY 3rd, 2022:
HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE! Rick and I made it to the new year. With Rick losing five family members to this pandemic, I wasn't sure. But we got our vaccinations, got the booster when it was available(and the flu shot this year), and followed the CDC guidelines as best we could. We are thankful for our good health, and for all our friends and family who made it through with us. I am determined to get more work done this year on Craft Bibliography Project, though I did get a lot accomplished in 2021.
I'm starting the new year off with an eclectic page dedicated to the SHIRE ALBUM/LIBRARY. Anyone who knows me knows how much I love TIME-LIFE BOOKS, so it really shouldn't come as a surprise that this wonderful series of books captured my attention. Think of it as the world's most eclectic encyclopedia published in the form of 32-page chapbooks - and there's over a 1,000 of them. They are British-centric, with odd forays into Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. They began the series in 1973, originally titled the Shire Album, and changed later to the Shire Library and it is ongoing to this day! You can read more about it, and see what they've published, at the link above. The page is not complete, but it is the most complete catalog of the series available at the moment. I'm still trying to hunt down the OSPREY catalogs, both for the years they were responsible for the Shire Library, and for their line of military books that are so necessary for miniatures enthusiasts.
Now that I have those two pages squared away for the moment, I'm back to working my way through Tatting Knots & Notes by Doretha Albee, getting the issues digitized for you! It has been a very slow hard slog without the help of my guild, but I keep working on it.
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