Holidays
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Twelve bindings of Christmas
Happy Holidays! This Christmas we’d like to offer you a selection of 12 seasonal bindings from the University of North Carolina Greensboro’s American Trade Bindings Collection. But before presenting them, we’d like to give a nod to our last holiday for Thanksgiving fans. It’s hard to believe that it was a month ago, and it’s… Continue reading
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Holiday greetings for 2019
We wish you a joyous holiday season! Illustrated by L.J. Bridgman. Boston: L.C. Page & Co., 1904. Illustrated by Harriet O’Brien. Boston: L.C. Page, 1912. From our little cousins, Boston: Little, Brown, 1906. Illustrations from drawings by Alice Barber Stephens. Janet, the Decorative Designers, and your friends, Paul and Callie, at American Trade Bindings and… Continue reading
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A Christmas Wish: Mammoth Cheese on the Hearthstone
Once again Christmas has crept up on us. We’re through the solstice turn and are in the final stretch of 2017. However, I’m devastated to say that I’ve never heard that Santa delivers binding images, even to the best behaved, which prompted this bitter image. Cover by Margaret Armstrong To celebrate the holiday season appropriately,… Continue reading
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Happy Holidays from the Decorative Designers
It’s only a few days until Christmas and, as always at this time of year, our thoughts are turning to seasonal and wintry topics: decorating the house, seeing family, vacation, finding the perfect gift for that strange uncle, being stranded on a train by a blizzard … To celebrate the season, our last post of… Continue reading
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Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Hope everyone has a safe and enjoyable long weekend. Here’s one of my favorite Thanksgiving themed bindings: Carving and serving by Mary J. Lincoln. Published by Roberts and Brothers in 1891. It’s amazing that the next time we post it’ll already be December and then only a hop, skip, and a jump… Continue reading
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