Bibliocraft: A Modern Crafter's Guide to Using Library Resources to Jumpstart Creative Projects: The Modern Crafter's Guide to Using Library Resources to Jumpstart Creative Projects - Hardcover

Pigza, Jessica

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ISBN 10: 1617690961 ISBN 13: 9781617690969

Verlag: Abrams & Chronicle Books, 2014

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Uncover a treasure-trove of crafting tips and inspiration with help from a rare book librarian and examples from Natalie Chanin, Liesl Gibson, and more.

A Library Journal Best Book of the Year

Deep in the stacks of any library is a wealth of inspiration waiting to be uncovered, and a plethora of projects ready to be tackled. In BiblioCraft, crafting aficionado and rare book librarian Jessica Pigza shares her secrets to scouring those musty collections—both in person and online—for everything from vintage needlepoint magazines to historic watermarks and Japanese family crests. As a host of the New York Public Library's Handmade Crafternoon series, Pigza has helped creative people of all types take advantage of these hidden riches.

BiblioCraft also presents more than twenty projects inspired by library resources from a stellar cast of designers, including Alabama Chanin founder Natalie Chanin, Liesl + Co. founder Liesl Gibson, Charm Patterns founder Gretchen Hirsch, illustrator and fabric designer Heather Ross, Design*Sponge founder Grace Bonney, and others.

Whether your passion is pillows or coasters, fascinators or fabrics, Pigza will show you how to turn your local library into a global crafting goldmine.

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Jessica Pigza is a rare book librarian at the New York Public Library. The host of the library’s monthly DIY event series, she has been featured in Martha Stewart Living magazine, has guest-blogged on Design*Sponge, and has lectured at library conferences on design and craft inspiration. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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In BiblioCraft, Jessica Pigza shares her hunting and gathering skills so that creative's of all types can access the most inspiring resources, in person and online. Whatever the quest--historic watermarks, traditional Japanese family crests, historic millinery instructions--with Pigza's help everyone is able to find the inspiration they're looking for to bring their vision to life. In Part One of BiblioCraft, Pigza showcases the work of more than a dozen artisans who collaborated with her to explore an area of interest using library resources and then developed a project for the book accordingly. In Part Two, Pigza shares her best research know-how; explaining the roles of different types of libraries and how to make the best use of them, guiding users to the best online collections and how to access them and sharing search tips for using library catalogs.

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BiblioCraft

A Modern Crafter's Guide to Using Library Resources to Jumpstart Creative Projects

By Jessica Pigza, Melanie Falick, Johnny Miller

Abrams Books

Copyright © 2018 Jessica Pigza
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-61769-096-9

Contents

FOREWORD, 
ANN THORNTON, Andrew W. Mellon Director, New York Public Library, 
INTRODUCTION, 
PART ONE: FINDING INSPIRATION AT THE LIBRARY, 
DIFFERENT KINDS OF LIBRARY COLLECTIONS, 
FINDING THE RIGHT LIBRARY FOR YOU, 
PLANNING YOUR LIBRARY VISIT, 
FINDING WHAT YOU WANT AT THE LIBRARY, 
THE WORLD OF DIGITAL LIBRARIES, 
RECOMMENDED LIBRARY COLLECTIONS, 
A COPYRIGHT PRIMER, 
PART TWO: PROJECTS INSPIRED BY THE LIBRARY, 
MARBLED FABRIC POUCH:, 
WATERMARK PILLOWS:, 
ORNAMENTAL PENMANSHIP EMBROIDERY:, 
SECRET MESSAGE SNOWFLAKES PATTERNED STATIONERY SET:, 
QUILLED WILLOW PENDANT:, 
ARTS AND CRAFTS EX LIBRIS SET:, 
CROSS-STITCH WALL PANEL:, 
KITTEN POCKETS DRESS-AND KITTENS!:, 
CYANOTYPE THROW:, 
ANTIQUARIAN ANIMAL VOTIVE HOLDERS:, 
SOIL PROFILE GROWTH CHART:, 
WOOL ROSE FASCINATOR:, 
FELT DOGWOOD BLOSSOMS:, 
CARTOUCHE EMBROIDERY:, 
RHUMB LINES WALL HANGING:, 
JAPANESE HERALDRY COASTERS:, 
PATCHWORK PYRAMIDS:, 
PAPER TOWNS:, 
CUTS OF MEAT TABLE RUNNER:, 
RADISH LOVE TOTE:, 
PART THREE: APPENDIX, 
STITCH GUIDE, 
SOURCES FOR SUPPLIES, 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, 
CREDITS, 
INDEX OF SEARCHABLE TERMS, 
ABOUT THE AUTHOR, 

CHAPTER 1

FINDING INSPIRATION AT THE LIBRARY

Whether you 're looking for a quiet spot to read or a humming atmosphere among other seekers, a library reading room might offer just the environment you seek. At some libraries, the architectural details themselves can even offer inspiration. The decorative elements shown here — all part of the New York Public Library's historic Stephen A. Schwarzman Building — might lead you to create Beaux Arts-inspired stencils, repeating patterns, paper cuts, or other original designs. As you explore BiblioCraft, you'll see occasional glimpses of this landmark building and its books and collections (like those on the rolling cart at left), since the photographs were taken at this library.

DIFFERENT KINDS OF LIBRARY COLLECTIONS

Do you need the newest issue of a home design magazine, or one from a hundred years ago? Are you on the hunt for vintage maps, or is it historical handwriting samples that you seek? Do you want to attend a craft social, or meet a children's book illustrator? Different kinds of libraries offer different kinds of materials, services, and programs. And when you're on the hunt for design inspiration, you'll find library collections near, far, and at your fingertips, too. From your local neighborhood libraries offering the newest craft books and stitching circles to internationally known research centers that are home to rare early editions, the right library for your next creative project is waiting to give you the inspiration you need.

BRANCH LIBRARIES IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD

The libraries you are probably most familiar with are those in your own neighborhoods. These are often called branch libraries because they are part of a network of similar neighborhood libraries spread across a town or region. Each branch library focuses its offerings — books, magazines, and events — on what those who live nearby need and want.

Branch libraries work hard to strengthen community connections through programs, and your local branch might offer knitting nights, sewing circles, and other arts and crafts events for adults, children, and families. Through these events you can make new connections, share ideas with fellow enthusiasts, and dedicate a few hours to fostering your creativity by working on your own projects or exploring the books around you. If your branch library doesn't offer any crafting nights and you think there's an audience, ask your librarian about adding one to their calendar to give it a try. A "bring-your-own-craft" night is an easy option to start with, because it requires just a meeting space for attendees who bring along their own works-in-progress.

Branch libraries are set up to encourage browsing, with open shelves of materials organized according to subject categories. And when you've found just the right sources, you can use your library card to borrow them and take them home. A branch library usually offers selections of recent books and magazines on craft, literature, history, and art. Because these libraries have very limited space to shelve and display collections for browsing, branch libraries don't tend to keep older materials that have fallen out of high demand. When it comes to periodicals — magazines, journals, and newspapers — a branch library will often have the most recent issues of these at hand but won't often have decades-old issues on the shelf.

Your local branch library may, however, be able to access many resources beyond its own walls, if it belongs to a network of related libraries that shares collections. If you need a source that's held in a different library, ask a librarian at your local branch if she or he can help you to borrow it through an interlibrary loan program.

RESEARCH LIBRARIES

What if you want to look through cookbooks from a century ago, or see what knitting books in the nineteenth century looked like, or read millinery magazines from the 1940s? In these cases, it's a research library that you need, because that's where you'll find older books and magazines, unique collections, and rare materials. Although some research libraries are not open to the public, many are, so if a library intrigues you, find out about the possibility of visiting. (See Planning Your Library Visit on this page for more tips).

Research libraries may be part of a university. For example, when embroidery artist Mary Corbet began her research into ornamental penmanship designs, she worked with digitized portions of the Zaner-Bloser Penmanship Collection held at the Weinberg Memorial Library at the University of Scranton (Scranton, Pennsylvania). My own interest in turning the geometric patterns of early hand-drawn nautical maps called portolan charts into stitched wall art led me to the digital collections of Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in New Haven, Connecticut.

Research libraries are often tied to museums, historical societies, or other organizations. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, for example, boasts a dozen different libraries and study centers in New York City, including the Thomas J. Watson Library, which is its central research center, as well as the Antonio Ratti Textile Center and Reference Library. And the American Antiquarian Society, based in Worcester, Massachusetts, is a scholarly center with a major research collection devoted to early Americana, including type specimen books like those artist Julie Schneider turned to in her search for paper cut inspiration.

Some research libraries are associated with federal or state governments or agencies. The Library of Congress (www.loc.gov) is the nation's largest and most complex government-associated research library. Located in Washington, DC, it's also the largest library in the world. It opens its doors to researchers worldwide in its mission to "support the Congress in fulfilling its constitutional duties and to further the progress of knowledge and creativity for the benefit of the American...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Abrams & Chronicle Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1617690961
• ISBN 13: 9781617690969
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
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