Are you a craft grad/new maker? Win a career-kickstarter session with our Talent Development experts PLUS a year’s sub to Crafts! Enter online by 10 July bit.ly/NewMakersComp & share the best of the shows using #Newmakers & #CraftGrads - we'll repost our top picks!

MAMMA MIA!! Holy Moly....what’s all this about??! Who’s that we spot wearing a JUST A CARD pin??!! We ‘may’ just have enlisted some help to celebrate JUST A CARD DAY on Monday 17th JUNE...... What’s going on?! Watch THIS SPACE....Eeeek Funding Circle UK 👌💪🤔👇

Here’s the Bob&Roberta Smith work in #RASummer that describes the moment he realised his four-year-old son was smarter than him.

Sorry we couldn't invite you all to come and have first pick of the works at the preview party – but we did put the works online so you can see them and shop there! Here’s our pick of works under £500: ow.ly/hDjY50uESDl

Have you had a look at the #FolioSummerSale yet? All of these beautiful books are HALF PRICE 😱- and this is just a small selection. Titles are selling out, so don't miss them! Sale ends Friday 12 July. foliosociety.com/sale

Linen thread is a strong and durable thread made from flax most commonly used in bookbinding. The weight we typically use in our workshop is 18/3 and we stock a wide range of colours 🌈 londonbookarts.org/product-catego…

Our campaign is growing each day... but as we grow so do the campaign costs UGH! So many of you are INCREDIBLY generous with your time & others say they'd prefer to help by making a financial donation - here's how... #supportthecampaign #spreadtheword justacard.org/donate

Over 50 writing systems are represented in our #MakingYourMark exhibition. Can you #GuessTheScript here? Not that you need it but here's a clue: there are 85 characters in this system.

We put up two more beautiful little libraries on the Hawksworth estate yesterday, kindly funded by Leeds City Council Inner West Community Committee. The Bike box was painted by @DoodleDuck13 and the Pea Pods by Jacky Fleming

Hothouse - Crafts Council craftscouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/hot… via Crafts Council UK Applications for #Hothouse2020 go live at the end of June 2019!

Autumn 2019 events details are online now!! Book quickly as places go fast!!@societyofbookbinders instagram.com/p/BzHHf5THUPw/…

What can we say, we're suckers for block printing, especially for the example on this 18th cent. music manuscript! 😍 #weloveendpapers #nottechnicalyendpapersbutwhatever #decoratedpaper #blockprinting #floral #music #manuscript

**Second session just added 26–30 August** Come join us at the London Centre for Book Arts for Making Books Summer School, a week-long series of bookbinding workshops taught by experts in an active bindery in east London eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-books…

Do you recognise this script? If you think it's traditional Chinese calligraphy, look again. These are English words with their letters reorganised by artist Xu Bing into forms that look like Chinese characters. See more of his work in our #MakingYourMark exhibition.

Did you know that we run fantastic #workshops in #letterpress #bookbinding and #woodengraving? See what takes your fancy by visiting sbf.org.uk/whats-on/categ…

we are seeking associate professors, early & mid-career researchers, artist & designer makers + administrative, management & technical people in fine art, print, product design, robotics, electronics, software, materials science, nanotechnology... jobs.ac.uk/enhanced/linki…

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You can read more than 6,000 historical children's books online at the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature. Their digitised collection contains thousands of mid- to late 19th century titles. openculture.com/2016/08/enter-… Open Culture