The front line in the battle between print and digital books seems to shift in unpredictable ways. Sometimes ebooks are less expensive than the print version, sometime they're more expensive. It's a complete mystery to me. For now, I still seem to need bookmarks.
Some of the bookmarks here go back a considerable number of years. The embroidered cat on the blue ribbon is something I did in the 1970s when Victorian crafts were enjoying a revival. The embroidered cat on the red ribbon is one that my mother did a few years ago.
The medieval woodcut is a souvenir of a trip to The Cloisters in the late 1980s at a time when I had very little money beyond the price of the train fare and the admission ticket. The Union Fair blue ribbon is for a traditional fisherman's sweater that I entered in the fair in 1996.
Northern Lights and Village Book store are no longer with us, I'm afraid.
When will book marks become as quaint as steel-nibbed dip pens? I don't know if anybody knows. But I'll have my choice collection available, should Antiques Roadshow come to town.
