Paste Paper: The Common Knowledge Craft
What do these two images have in common? They may share neither a color palette nor a design, but both depict paste papers found in …
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What do these two images have in common? They may share neither a color palette nor a design, but both depict paste papers found in …
In Our Journey Around the World: An Illustrated Record of a Year’s Travel of Forty Thousand Miles Through India, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Egypt, …
Women’s History Month seems an apt time to explore the myriad ways in which women are represented — as authors, artists, subjects, printers, binders, and former …
Many a book could be clothed in style with the papers produced by participants in our February 11th marbling workshop. Among the workshop’s eight attendees were …
Last Valentine’s Day, Americans spent a staggering $52.2 million on flowers. Why is it that we’re willing to pay so much for a commodity that, when …
If you missed Rare Books’ Marbling Pop-Up Station during finals week, here’s your chance to learn trough marbling and to create vibrant, Valentine-worthy decorated papers! …
For me, “conduct book” conjures up a stuffy, pedantic tract preaching morality and social restraint to young ladies, but even the briefest exploration of our …
SLU’s rare book collections contain a number of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Christmas works, from copies of Charles Dickens’ The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of …
Were pickled oysters missing from your Thanksgiving spread? Was your turkey in need of matrimony sauce? Perhaps your guests craved suet pudding and superior bread? If any …
It’s finals week, and everyone’s working hard. Pius XII Memorial Library is the place to be if you want to meet with your subject librarian, …