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Nicholas Yeager @NicholasYeager

Interests: Lettering, bookbinding, history of the book, conservation & vintage motorcycles.

Joined June 2011
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I just posted about #typedesign #spelling #alphabets and #relia motoscribendi.com/2024/03/11…

CODEX IX – 2024 Book Fair, etc.

A few weekends ago, CODEX IX was held at the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, in Oakland, CA. The weather transpired to be cold and rainy while offering up very high winds, just to add a little...

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21 Dec 2023
New from The Legacy Press - SUAVE MECHANICALS: ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY OF BOOKBINDING, VOLUME 8 edited by Julia Miller See this title and others from the Legacy Press here: oakknoll.com/advSearchResult… #oakknollbooks #oakknollpress #legacypress #bookbinding #bookarts #booksaboutbooks
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I’m positive that this is about #penmanship! motoscribendi.com/2023/11/24…

Negative pedagogy

I don't mean to suggest that teachers engaged in punishment to improve their student's penmanship; rather that some writing masters cut the letters into a wooden block. By doing so, the student could...

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R you serious?😳😵‍💫😋 Fully inked, and half inked capital Rs from Cresci’s 1566 Essemplare di piv Sorte Lettere… Bound into an 1850 scrapbook set of 52 manuals. They were cut apart and mounted onto large sheets. The Beaufoy collection is at the @ransomcenter. I’ll post more!
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The Guild of Bookworkers Standards conference in San Francisco was this past weekend. I got to hang out with Bettina Pauly and other talented bookbinders.
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Making paper from sheet formation to couching to drying in a spur on a horsehair rope. Seavy watermark paper. I’m showing Papermaker’s Tears Volume 2 at the @bookworkers #Standards conference in SF next week. Selling this paper there
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Making paper in the afternoon - with chicken supervision
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Papermaker’s Tears V. 2 just published My article on a 19th century #penmanship book where the exemplars are #watermarked #letters - over 1000 at 10mm tall. I made paper emulating the illustration shown twitch a dark sheet as was used in 1814.
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Early #printinghistory question: how was ink made in the incunable period? Where can I read more than a 2 sentence description of how the oil(s) are prepared and the carbon, etc added? And is “stand oil” made the same way?
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I’m surprised by the lack of information about early typographic ink preparation. The cyclotron research analyzes elements, not compounds of Gutenberg’s ink. The best general description comes from the NDL: tinyurl.com/3cf2kx4u and claims the oil was boiled, but was it?

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This week’s #handpapermaking output of 30 sheets spur-dried, then vat sized w/5% animal-size, and flattened and dried in an airbox drier
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Morning #papermaking before it’s too hot. And a shot of one of my chickens, Watermark roosting for the evening from yesterday
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Just finished putting the leather on the spine of this #bookbinding allowing the edge it the skin to dictate the shape of the #quarterleather
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This past weekend at Printmakers at the Tannery in Santa Cruz, #bookbinding ilwooden boards. Frank Trueba wanted to cover the spine with 2 pieces of leather! 😳😝😋
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The boards are attached, now to put on the leather spine.
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Shaping and channeling oak #boards for laced-on wooden boards #bookbinding class in Santa Cruz, CA August 5 & 6. This textblock is made up of my #handmadepaper - quarter leather with a brass #clasp - there’s still room if you want to attend
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Is it wrong to use a book on #parchment to help drain sized #handmadepaper?
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I made a batch of flax #handmadepaper at Magnolia Editions last week. To coat it with animal skin #size, I got a large cookie sheet, but it wasn’t wide enough. A little fiddling, and I accomplished the task.
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Wooden Boards Bookbinding class in Santa Cruz, CA. June 24 & 25. $335 supply’s included. meetup.com/hayward-book-arts…
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Reading this trio of books @bruceholsinger @sonic_hedgehog and @elainetreharne
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