Was introduced today to the work of Olia Fedorova, who makes striking embroidered textile maps (among other pieces) about Ukraine. Adding this to my list of examples for the Data Visualization with Textiles class. #DHmakes

The dh+lib Review is back for the fall! We invite you to join us as a volunteer Editor-at-Large (EAL). Our welcome event, open to all prospective and current EALs, will take place Tuesday, Sept. 16 at 2pm ET / 11am PT / 6pm UTC. 💻 Sign up to get access to our Slack and the Zoom link to the event:

Fantastic little article about reproductions

That's so cool! icymi I've been thinking about speculation, coming from a slightly different direction - speculating about manuscripts that don't exist. idk it's all such an interesting area to consider www.dotporterdigital.org/speculative-...

over the summer I embroidered this giant tapestry about mill towns and textile strikes. now I’m working on another one about streetcar drivers and their militant labor struggle in the early 20th century!

Recently one of our manuscripts was rebound in modern conservation binding. Follow the progress, and an amazing discovery, as our Head of Conservation reveals the steps taken for this careful work A deep dive in medieval manuscript binding 🕵️ www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/chr...

"Interesting digital humanities data sources": I blogged about 18 datasets for DHy teaching, research, & tool-learning I've bookmarked, & why they might be useful—plus some relevant tools, events, & resources re:data at risk:

Digital humanities folks: the #DataSittersClub really wants to hear your feelings about AI for our next book. We've got a short, easy survey with a box at the end where you can vent as much as you want. Please share around to DH-adjacent librarians, students, developers, all welcome!

The #DataSittersClub is back with @anasalter.bsky.social @lucidbard.bsky.social & @readywriting.bsky.social talking AI and pedagogy, with examples from the "DH Programming Pedagogy in the Age of AI" class. Even if you're anti-AI, please fill out the survey! datasittersclub.github.io/site/dsc23.h...

Earlier this month I asked folks to let us know about the book labs at their institutions—You can still contribute info about yours here: forms.gle/HMZ8be5nmVnq... As folks are contributing, this page will allow you get info about booklabs around the world: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #dhmakes

The full LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography is here 🏳️‍🌈!!! 650+ items of LGBTQIA+ #BookHistory!! Check out the intro to see how we made it, the primary bibliography, the article appendix, and the absolutely magnificent zine!!! From monographs to zines, you'll find it here! sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

@westernulibs.bsky.social #dhmakes illuminated letters for STEM camps

Lasercut blocks of some of this quote; thinking I'll surround them with the same text set in actual moveable type when I print them (cc @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social)

News you can use, BL manuscripts edition: Tl;dr you CAN download images detailed enough to teach from. Read on for a hack. #medievalsky #paleography 🧵 At the time of writing, links from www.bl.uk/research/dig... to the IIIF viewer are not working for me in Chrome but are in Firefox.

My indigo results with fabrics! Soot approved.

Spent today learning how to create a vat of indigo and dying Usu Kuchi paper! Tomorrow, we will play with dying fabric.

It's a two-blog-post-day! This one is "A Franken-Book-of-Hours: From Physical to Digital and Back Again," which I presented at Leeds in a session in memory of Johanna Green <3 Find out all about the weird book of hours I've been making since 2022! www.dotporterdigital.org/a-franken-bo...

Studying #earlymodern #bookhistory, #rarebooks, or print culture? Antwerp’s Museum Plantin-Moretus & the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library offer unmatched treasures. Apply for the Nottebohm Fellowship by October 1: museumplantinmoretus.be/en/page/fell...! 💙📚📜

🚨 CATS IN MANUSCRIPTS, repeat CATS IN MANUSCRIPTS 🚨 exhibit opening at the Walters in August! thewalters.org/exhibitions/... #medievalsky #baltimore

While you were writing, engineers and product people were building. :) Bluesky doesn't really believe in user docs. Fortunately, Amanda Visconti has been an angel building and maintaining this guide. A CTRL/CMD-F for "starter pack" and you'll be on your way. :)

I'm attending #DH2025 virtually*, but I designed my conference poster on my ZineBakery.com research to be as Visually Extra as possible (🎵rainbow leopard print🎶) to give me (& hopefully you?) joy, so please enjoy! (*bc of fascism vs. trans passports, & recently getting sick from people not masking)

Did everyone leave heavily dusted in gold? Yes. Did they have fun? 💯 Our STEAM camp workshop was a success! The kids asked lots of questions during the manuscript show & tell portion and had fun creating their own illuminated initials! @westernulibs.bsky.social #DHmakes #booklabbers

Prepping an activity for a STEAM camp workshop this Thursday. 😄 Students grade 4-6 will get to see illuminated manuscripts from the collection at @westernu.ca and then make their own! Thanks to @leoba.bsky.social for the inspiration earlier this year at #buildingabooklab25! #DHmakes

#DHmakes loves a good curated database

Hey #buildingbooklabs2025, another journal that publishes work on humanities making is @dhandlib.bsky.social (especially 2 recent special issues on craft+humanities data, which include some bookish work):

We are PLEASED to announce the publication of our latest special issue: ✨Crafting Encounters with Humanities Data✨ It is a follow up to our 2024 special issue "Making Research Tactile: Critical Making and Data Physicalization in Digital Humanities" #DHmakes dhandlib.org/category/202...

Electric Zine Maker unicornycopia.com/ezm/

After a busy teaching term, it's time to pick up my attempt at binding a model of St. Cuthbert's. I will try to remember Bluesky and share updates here as well. 🙂 So far, I've made a model on book board and I am starting work on the wooden boards.

Back home after an amazing time at #BuildingBookLabs25! Everyone there was so nice and inspiring, I am eager to apply what I've learned in my classroom and at work. But for now I'm resting and buried under cats who missed me. 😄

My colleague replaced my organs for me! 😆 Orange is an appendix and purple is a gallbladder. 🥰

Slowly getting back into the groove and finishing up the books from Bookbinding Level 3! This is the 4th week post-surgery after surgery #2. Hopefully that the winter break will be very restful as next term I am teaching for the MLIS program (I'm looking forward to it!) 😀

To support CBBAG's Kindred Spirits Exhibition I've created a textblock of Anne of Green Gables and made it available for download on my blog (with printing instructions)! ariellesbindery.com/2023/11/15/k...

Come join my guild! New memberships now until Dec. 31st get a credit to take a free online workshop! Student membership is only 25$, regular member is $60. CBBAG is where I learned to bind my first book; I'm actively involved at the local and national level so ask me anything!

My good friend and colleague tried to test ChatGPT 4 and how it would do on automated text recognition of old texts Read the surprising(?) results here: greflinger.hypotheses.org/739