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21:4823.08.26
Ornament as a Workshop's Signature
A binding is attributed to a specific workshop by its set of tools.
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Gold Adheres Only Where There Is Protein
Before tooling, the leather is wiped with egg white.
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The Tools Are Still Heated, for Demonstration
A cold tool leaves no mark: tooling needs heat.
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21:4823.08.26
A Tool Worn on One Side
The binder held it at an angle, and it shows a century later.
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Ornament as a Workshop's Signature

A binding is attributed to a specific workshop by its set of tools.

23.08.2026|21:48

Gold Adheres Only Where There Is Protein

Before tooling, the leather is wiped with egg white.

23.08.2026|21:48

The Tools Are Still Heated, for Demonstration

A cold tool leaves no mark: tooling needs heat.

23.08.2026|21:48

A Tool Worn on One Side

The binder held it at an angle, and it shows a century later.

23.08.2026|21:48

Gold on Leather: An Exhibition of Tools, Not Bindings

Forty brass tools, each for a single element of a pattern.

23.08.2026|21:48

The Technology That Made the Poster Possible

Lithography gave large format and colour before anything else.

23.08.2026|21:48

The Stone Weighs More Than the Press

A slab the size of a sheet weighs about sixty kilograms.

23.08.2026|21:48

Demonstrations Use Water, Despite the Risk

There is no dry way to demonstrate lithography.

23.08.2026|21:48

A Stone with the Drawing Still on It

A slab never prepared for the next job, so the image stayed.

23.08.2026|21:48

Grease and Water: Lithography as a Chemical Trick

Printing without relief: a flat stone on which ink adheres selectively.

23.08.2026|21:48

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Gold on Leather: The Tools of Tooling

Museum of Book and Printing of Ukraine

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A Reader from the Village: Letters That Were Not Meant to Be Written

Kharkiv Literature Museum

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The Slim Volume: Poetry in Publisher's Wrappers

Taras Honcharenko

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The Wax Seal and Trust

Olena Marchenko

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Grease and Water: Lithography as a Chemical Trick

Museum of Book and Printing of Ukraine

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Galley Proofs of Books That Never Were

Kharkiv Literature Museum

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The Living Book: Illustration of the Future

Sofiia Ivanenko

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The Unfading Hand: The Manuscript in the Digital Age

Olena Marchenko

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Ukrainian Book Festival

Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi

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The Watermark: How Paper Tells Its Own Story

Museum of Book and Printing of Ukraine

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What Remains of an Evening: A Playbill Instead of a Recording

Kharkiv Literature Museum

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The Censor's Mark

Taras Honcharenko

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The Letter That Took a Month

Olena Marchenko

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Days of Ukrainian prose at the bookstore

Vasyl Stefanyk

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Book club: Olha Kobylianska today

Olha Kobylianska

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The Type Case: A Language's Statistics as Furniture

Museum of Book and Printing of Ukraine

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Literaturnyi Yarmarok: Twelve Issues and a Whole School

Kharkiv Literature Museum

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The Colour Page: The Art of Book Illustration

Sofiia Ivanenko

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Hand and Ink: The World of the Manuscript

Olena Marchenko

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The Binding That Kept the Parchment Flat

Museum of Book and Printing of Ukraine

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