Swiss Bally shoes. I want those wooden sandals with rope laces now! —a remake waiting to happen. Browse through hundreds (maybe thousands) of posters via Swiss Posters Collection care of the Swiss National Library in Bern. discovered via Eye Blog Thanks be to Matt C!

Oh yeah, I am leaving for Switzerland today. Pictures of IRL archives & mountains coming soon. Farewell!

Enjoy Florida beaches & The Wolfsonian’s Modern Dutch Collection at the State University Libraries of Flordia. This goes out to my old boss/friend Arjen & who is moving back to Holland this summer with his wife Christie. They will be missed and hopefully visited by me in Holland soon!

1. Ons thuis : geïllustreerd maandschrift voor kinderen van 7-10 jaar. (Book Cover)
2. Industrieschool : uitnoodiging tot een bezoek aan de tentoonstelling. (Invitation)
3. Borduur-Patronen voor klein en groot (Book Cover) / door G.W.D. & W.D
4. Sconce in the Amsterdam School-style manufactured by Winkelman & van der Bijl, ca. 1920
5. Number plates, ca. 1920

Delaware & its postcards & its postcards of beaches. It’s hot!

via University of Delaware

Learn from the Universal School of Weaving Draft sample cards. It’s not just the beautiful colors and textures of the samples but it’s the so seventies hand lettering and woodcut Universal School of Handicraft seal that makes me love these oak tag sample cards.

Weavers in the Appalachian area worked on their own and often made the tools that they needed from regional materials. During the Craft Revival years, teachers like Clementine Douglas put them in touch with companies and outside resources to encourage weavers to try new methods. These cards published by the Universal School of Handicrafts, Inc in New York City promoted new patterns and weaving information.

via Hunter Library

Thanks to Walter for sharing his find with me!

Calligraphy, gradients, marbling, photo-montage—it’s all so contemporary!
Displayed here are dust jackets from the 1940s collected by anonymous librarians.

Despite the fact that dust jackets often include useful information about a book and its author, including biographical notes and often a portrait, it has long been Research Libraries practice to remove the jackets from new books during processing for their permanent place in the stacks. However, from 1926 to 1947, anonymous librarians selected and saved interesting jackets from books of all sorts.

via NYPL Digital Gallery – Dust Jackets from American and European Books, 1926-1947

Federal Art Project posters, 1930-1950.
Some of the posters I have no idea what they are talking about. Doctor, Lawyer, Merchant, Chief...???
Do you?
via Library of Congress

PS: Please excuse the lack of posts.
I’ve been busy weaving baskets, touring the NYPL, watching movies & hiking.
Offline livin’!