MovableBookSociety

The Movable Book Society is a forum for collectors, artists, fans, book sellers, and others to share enthusiasm and information about pop-up and movable books.

[MovableBookSociety @MovableBookSoc]

The More the Merrier! 🛞🛞
#volvelles

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Poposition Press AND Peter Dahmen?!
https://t.co/oesx4Uykyc

[MovableBookSociety @MovableBookSoc]

Medieval volvelle!

[Prof Claire Jowitt - @clairejowitt.bsky.social @clairejowitt]

Oh my word ... a unique late Medieval/early Renaissance volvelle astronomical calendar, by Anonymous, 1455, yours for ***£1,275,000***
***the only object of its type to have survived from the Middle Ages***
https://t.co/KfWevGzVIi

[MovableBookSociety @MovableBookSoc]

#Flaptastic

[Patrick’s Rare Books @patricksrarebks]

Flap #books are so hard to photograph!

[Beinecke Library @BeineckeLibrary]

Volvelle with Unicorn

in https://t.co/KOg17ARFW1

[MovableBookSociety @MovableBookSoc]

TODAY! Join us at Noon Central (Chicago) for the latest MBS Show-and-Tell.

Featuring... Pop-up Books

BIG
and
small!

Our DMS are open if you want the link...

Can't make it today? Here are some past programs: https://t.co/67uN0sgBKJ

[MovableBookSociety @MovableBookSoc]

The Gloves Are OFF!
#Volvelle #BestPractices

[The Huntington @TheHuntington]

Wearing gloves can increase the risk of damage to rare books, especially when working with objects like this delicate, dragon-themed volvelle. 🐉 ☀️ Check out this video with our curator Dan to learn more.

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#Volvelle

[Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety]

Admiring this stunning gilt-brass timepiece with alarm, sundials & “volvelle”, crafted in book form by Hans Koch in 1580. A volvelle has a complex series of concentric rotating disks used to calculate lunar phases, tides & other astronomical information
https://t.co/hS2XbFTdc7

[MovableBookSociety @MovableBookSoc]

Unusually stationary structure in an early volvelle 👀

[Gill Partington @roguepages]

Only ONE DAY left to sign up to this!! A hands-on course featuring some of the @UL's most fascinating movable books. Find out about interactive features from the early modern spinning volvelle to the nineteenth-century flap book and beyond. https://t.co/Un8rjS5AJA

[MovableBookSociety @MovableBookSoc]

Want to Show and Tell?

We'll have some quality discussion time at the next Zoom meeting... Bring your books or just yourself!

Happening tomorrow at 1 pm Central (Chicago time)!
https://t.co/67uN0sg3Vb

[MovableBookSociety @MovableBookSoc]

Pop-Ups in the Wild

[MovableBookSociety @MovableBookSoc]

Like what you see Popping Up here?
We have MORE of this sort of thing... Join us! https://t.co/XzDuq7mk46

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

‘The Pop-up Book of Phobias’ by Matthew Reinhart, brought to life with intricate pop-up designs demonstrating remarkable engineering skills.
https://t.co/PXnSCsaMQS

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🚨 Movable Survey Alert!🚨

Paper engineers and movable book collectors!
Know any fabulous female paper engineers who aren't household names? Researchers @Jacqui_R_Walsh and Rebecca Rouse want your insights! Tell them about your mentors and favorites here:
https://t.co/h7aEUo0bJz