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I want some alum-tawed thongs for a bookbinding project. Does a search on the internet help? It does not (unless I want a whole animal skin for £££). But I DO have a sheep skin that I salted from last year. So I’m going to make my own #teachingmanuscripts 
I cut off some strips from the bottom of the skin and give it a bit of a haircut
I need to rinse all the salt out first in water. I got this skin last October and salted it straight away. It’s been stored all winter in an airtight container, and it looks pretty good 👍
What an intriguing #earlymodern #bookbinding to come across with. A calfskin binding decorated with monks, bees and fleur-de-lis by blind-tooling. Moreover, it contains flyleaves of #medieval #manuscriptwaste: a beautifully #illuminated Latin manuscript @libservice BIB.JUR.001422
Because he incorporated his initials in the binding, we can identify the bookbinder: 16th-century Jan Van Ryckaert of Ghent, who made this binding for the St Peter’s Abbey in Ghent, as indicated by the handwritten provenance mark /2
#bookhistory #rarebooks
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