#Decorated Book Papers

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Decorative Sunday: Paste Paper Edition

In 1942, Harvard University Press printed 250 copies of Decorated Book Papers: Being an Account of the Designs and Fashions by the bookbinder, author, and creator and collector of decorative papers, Rosamond Bowditch Loring. Published by the Harvard College Library Department of Printing and Graphic Arts in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the 234 sale copies of the first edition sold out within months, despite the “then considerable price of ten dollars” and the economic stressors of the war. In addition to eight plates reproducing examples of 18th century decorative papers, the first edition includes twenty-five samples tipped in, many of which are from the author’s own extensive collection. 

While Loring collected a variety of a decorative papers, the examples shown here are from the chapter on paste papers, Loring’s area of creative specialization. The sample papers included in this chapter are all Loring’s own work, or that of her student, Veronica Ruzicka, who bound the first edition (it is worthy to note that Ruzicka is the daughter of illustrator, wood engraver, and type designer Rudolph Ruzicka, whose work we have highlighted several times). Ruzicka also contributed an essay when a second edition of the book was finally published by Harvard University Press in 1952, along with Dard Hunter and Walter Muir Whitehall. 

Rosamond Loring (May 2, 1889 – September 17, 1950) studied book binding under Mary Crease Sears at the Sears School of Bookbinding in Boston. Sears, about a decade older than Loring, had had to battle to learn the trade; women were barred from the Bookbinders Union but most commercial binderies were happy to hire women for particular tasks, such as sewing sheets, but maintained a strict separation of roles, preventing employees from learning the whole binding process from start to finish. Eventually, Ms. Sears secured an apprenticeship in France to complete her studies and opened her binding school in Boston shortly after, training several generations of women binders. While studying under Sears, Loring became frustrated with the lack of options for quality endpapers and became determined to make her own, which she sold to other binders at Ms. Sears’s studio. Her first major commercial commission was for the Houghton Mifflin publication of The Antigone of Sophocles, translated by John J. Chapman (Boston, 1930).

Our copy of Decorated Book Papers is a gift of Dick Schoen. 

-Olivia Hickner, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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🌺🌴 ACNH Paradise Planning Set: Part 1 🌴🌺

All the items you'll need to recreate The upstairs of the Paradise Planning office in your TS4 game. Most items came with only 1 swatch each. There are lots of items that I added extra swatches for. *See bottom of item list for links to the handful of items that have already been made in other sets. Set 2 coming very soon!

Sims 4, Base game compatible | 67 items

💡As always, turning the brightness down on my functional lamps will make them look better (not overly bright) due to my vertex paint issue in Blender. I am trying to figure the issue out.

Always suggested: bb.objects ON, it makes placing items much easier. For further placement tweaking, check out the TOOL mod.

Use the scale up & down feature on your keyboard to make the items larger or smaller to your liking. If you have a non-US keyboard, it may be different keys depending on which alphabet it uses.

I hope you enjoy! ☺️ Download below, all in a zip file or pick & choose!

Set contains: Buy: -Bongos | 3 swatches | 1192 poly -Books 1 & 2 | 3 swatches each | 236, & 274 poly -Bookshelf (long) | 3 swatches | 242 poly -Bowl Stack | 7 swatches | 558 poly  -Box 1 | 4 swatch | 78 poly -Box Stack | 1 swatch | 514 poly -Cactus | 3 swatches | 586 poly -Canisters | 5 swatches | 238 poly -Cart | 1 swatch | 1102 poly -Chips Bag | 1 swatch | 276 poly -Chips Bowl | 8 swatches | 866 poly -Coffee Table | 3 swatches | 434 poly -First Aid Kit | 1 swatch | 166 poly -Food Chocolates Plate | 4 swatches | 1982 poly -Large Wood Shelf | 3 swatches | 659 poly -Lei | 1 swatch | 1636 poly -Light Bulb Lamp (turn brightness down in game for best look) | 2 swatches (second swatch is whiter) | 544 poly -Locker 1 & 2 (2 items) | 3 swatches each | 954, & 1288 poly -Magazine Stack 1 & 2 | 3 swatches each | 581, & 421 poly -Mirror | 8 swatches | 986 poly -Notepad & Pen | 5 swatches | 44 poly -Open Magazine | 4 swatches | 140 poly -Paint & Brush | 5 swatches | 332 poly -Party Decoration (wall) | 6 swatches | 1252 poly -Pencil & Pad | 1 swatch | 594 poly -Pen Cup | 1 swatch | 432 poly -Picture Frame 1 | 3 frame colors, 10 images, 30 total swatches | 210 poly -Pillars (3 items, Small, Medium & Large) | 1 swatch each | 312 poly -Pillow Stack | 6 swatches | 1697 poly -Pizza | 2 swatches | 447 poly -Plant 1 | 5 swatches | 1101 poly -Polaroids & Postcard 1 & 2 (2 items) | 2 swatches each | 144, & 176 poly -Pottery | 1 swatch | 382 poly -Rug: Large & Small (2 items) | 2 swatches each (second swatch is brighter) | 480, & 10 poly -Seashell Bowl | 2 swatches | 2214 poly -Small Drawers (slotted) | 3 swatches | 81 poly -Soup Decor (2 items: Steam & No Steam versions) | 24 swatches each | 1270 poly -Spray Paint | 1 swatch | 182 poly -Starfish Bowl | 2 bowl colors, 4 starfish colors, 8 total swatches | 850 poly -Storage Cabinet (2 items: closed door & open door) | 7 swatches each | 222 poly -Storage Chest | 1 swatch | 2022 poly -Teacup (2 items: Steam & No Steam versions) | 11 swatches each | 188 poly -Teapot | 11 swatches | 746 poly -Tissue Box | 9 swatches | 606 poly -Toolbox | 1 swatch | 124 poly -Toolbox 2 | 2 swatches | 822 poly -Trophy | 3 swatches | 1040 poly -Wall Calendar | 1 swatch | 306 poly -Wall Clock | 3 swatches | 458 poly -Wall Flags | 3 swatches | 154 poly -Window Shade | 3 swatches | 124 poly -Wood Crate | 2 swatches | 730 poly -Wood Shelf | 2 swatches | 437 poly -Work Papers | 1 swatch | 83 poly -Wrench | 1 swatch | 124 poly

Build: -Floors Wood | 1 swatches | Wood -Walls Plaster | 2 swatches | Paint

Type “ACNH paradise planning 1” into the search query in build mode to find  quickly. You can always find items like this, just begin typing the title and it will appear.

As always, please let me know if you have any issues!

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*Veranka's Bakery Window: MediumDouble: This window is recommended if you are recreating this building in TS4.

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The rest of my CC

[wheeirts]

mini haul (i want more sticker ngl)

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[celinamarniss]

Working on a little project this weekend

[demonicbasterd]

My gravity falls fixation is back after I don't know many years ago and it's all bills cipher fault

[hdslibrary]

Refulgent Summer Blooms

August has slipped into September, but these are always blooming. Enjoy these shining bright flowers of the Dutch gilt paper end papers in an 18th century work by Christian mystic, Jakob Böhme. (For more on the contents of the book, see this recent post.)

Böhme, Jakob. Theosophia revelata. Das ist: Alle göttliche Schriften des gottseligen und hocherleuchteten deutschen Theosophi... [Amsterdam, 1730-1731].

[love-3-crimes]

"college is serious and professional." nope! all my essays have at least 10 exclamation points and a silly joke in each paragraph. get fucked.

[napping-sapphic]

I’m not cut out for even slightly more intense health issues than my usual stuff yall so here’s my will for when i die of feel too bad disorder: i’d like to dedicate my few life achievements to all the sapphics out there and also they can have all my stuff i guess

[othmeralia]

The pretty books have it so easy. This decorative paper covers a 1750 French book on mineral waters.

Essai analitique sur les eaux de Bussang, 1750.

[muspeccoll]

Happy Friday! We're #BoundForTheWeekend with this swirly blue paste paper from the cover of a 1977 edition of Ourika by Claire de Durfort.

RARE PQ2235.D65 O8 1977

[jekao-blog]

Army angels. This one daid "I'm ready to give luck someone!"

[msnogood]

Book Ghosts Bookmarks!

Haunt your books with some DIY ghosts. This is so fun to make. It fulfilled my childhood obsession over laminators that only teachers had access to.

Things you need: Hot laminator, laminator sheets, tracing paper or thin wrapping paper, pencil, pencil sharpener, eraser, scissors.

1) Draw the outline of ghost on tracing paper.

2) Cut out ghost shape.

3) Draw the ghost face. Ghastly hands are also nice.

4) Turn over the paper and draw the same design on that side. This is a great time to fix any asymmetry. Skipping this step will make the bookmark one side darker than the other.

5) Input pouch with ghosts in the laminator that’s warmed up. Witness the ghostly transformation as the machine output the heated laminate sheet turning the ghosts even more transparent from the melted glue inside the laminate sheet.

6) Carefully cut the ghosts out. Leave about 2mm boarder.

7) You have a fraid of book ghosts good enough to haunt your books.

༼ つ ❍_❍ ༽つ

Tips:

5mil or 7mil has a much smoother finish than 3mil laminate sheets

Always put the fused edge of the laminate sheet in the machine first

Thin paper works better

Use paper towels to shield your fingertips from leaving oily smudges on tracing paper

Sharp pencil helps with drawing details like tiny fingers

Dull pencil helps drawing shading like the soft dark eye circles.

Keep pencil graphite bits off your fingers and working area. They smudge easily on tracing paper.

Only use good quality erasers for the rest of your life. Otherwise, scotch tape with some skills still works better than those pink erasers from heck.

[area51-escapee]

I tend to get really judgmental in bookstores or in the book section at like target or whatever to the point I realized it’s probably off putting and possibly even a little offensive because it’s where I start to lose my filter so I’ve thought about making little bookmarks to just slip into these books I despise because I swear I’m not just here to hate on whatever YA book is popular with the young girls lately, I’m hating on this book because the author is a fucking Zionist

[gmanmedias]

I’LL NEVER GO BACK TO GEORGIA, NOT AT LEAST TIL I HAVE TO

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[lucky-draws]

arts and crafts sunday: finished making my journal 👍