What is "ex libris," you ask? Per Wikipedia:
Ex Libris is a Latin phrase, meaning literally, "from the books". It is often used to indicate ownership of a book, as in "from the books of..." or from the library of...
I collect lots of old books, so I've had the good fortune to stumble across some of these antiqued name-bearing bookplates. Further journeying around the web turned up these beauties:
So of course, the next step was to get my own ex libris on. Lacking the graphic design panache needed to properly do the job, I found Stacey's shop, Asspocket Productions, on Etsy and knew she was just the woman to help me.
Update (01/ 16/12): Stacey sent me a quick email describing her process for creating the custom stamps you can find in her shop!
"It's actually a really cool photo process where I make a negative on my computer and then expose special photoreactive polymer gel to a strong light through the negative and it hardens when it develops. I then wash away the unexposed polymer, and cut apart the individual stamps and mount them."
After a careful search, I found exactly what I was yearning for, and when the package arrived I couldn't have been more pleased with the end result. Ta daaaa!
Now for the fun of tackling my personal library, one book at a time, and a-fixing this eerily lovely little tag. This feels like such a great way to get my reading life a little bit closer to organized. (One step closer to checking off that New Year's resolution, and it's only January 13!)
Update (01/ 16/12): Stacey sent me a quick email describing her process for creating the custom stamps you can find in her shop!
"It's actually a really cool photo process where I make a negative on my computer and then expose special photoreactive polymer gel to a strong light through the negative and it hardens when it develops. I then wash away the unexposed polymer, and cut apart the individual stamps and mount them."
After a careful search, I found exactly what I was yearning for, and when the package arrived I couldn't have been more pleased with the end result. Ta daaaa!
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5 comments:
This is such a neat idea!
These are so cool! I absolutely love the one you came up with.
♥ LW
must you be so damn fresh all the time? you're making the rest of us look bad...and now i badly want to do this to my books too.
what was the overall cost of getting something like this done?
Oh, that is so cool!
What a cool idea! And I loved learning about the history too.
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