Scrapbooking is a method of preservation, presentation, arrangement of personal and family history in the form of books, boxes, cards. Typical memorabilia includes photos, print media, and artwork. Scrapbook albums are often decorated and often contain extensive journaling. Scrapbooking began in the UK in the nineteenth century, but is now primarily a United States phenomenon.
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History
In the 15th century, regular books, popular in the UK, emerged as a way to gather information that included recipes, quotes, letters, poems, and more. Every common book is unique to the creator's special interests. Friendship albums became popular in the 16th century. These albums are used like a modern yearbook, where friends or customers will enter a name, title and short text or illustration at the request of the album owner. These albums are often made as European tour souvenirs and will contain local memorabilia including the weapon or art badge assigned by local craftsmen. Beginning in 1570, it becomes fashionable to combine colored plates depicting popular scenes such as Venetian costumes or Carnival scenes. This provides an affordable option compared to the original work and, as such, these platters are not sold to commemorate or document specific events, but specifically as decoration for the album. In 1775, James Granger published an English history with several blank pages at the end of the book. The pages are designed to enable the book owner to personalize the book with its own memorabilia. The practice of inserting engravings, lithographs and other illustrations into a book, or even taking separate books, incorporating new material, and replaying, becomes known as an additional illustration or grangerizing . In addition, the friendship album and school yearbook gave girls in the 18th and 19th centuries an outlet to share their literary skills, and enabled the women the opportunity to document their own personal history records that were not available to them.
For example, college women around the turn of the century use scrapbooks extensively to build a representation of their daily lives as students. Without a photo album to give a picture of this life event, students create unique representations through scrapbooks to illustrate their lives using efemera and memorabilia. A guest list or a group of visiting cards may represent a young woman's visit to a party. Playbills and ticket pieces may serve as a reminder of a trip to New York to see a Broadway show. Solid objects such as plants, silver, or small trinkets are also used when further visual representation is required.
A page of scrapbooks based on these subjects may include a college schedule, exam book, a letter from a professor, or other printed material from a school event. Thus scrapbooks from this era can create a more complete picture of the life of their maker.
During the 19th century, scrapbooking was seen as a more involved way to preserve one's experience than journals or other writing-based writing forms. Printed materials such as cheap newspapers, visiting cards, playgrounds and pamphlets were widely circulated during the 19th century and are often the main components of people's scrapbooks. This increased volume of ephemera, parallel to the growth of industrial societies, created a demand for its cataloging and preservation methods. This is why scrapbooks devoted to cataloging recipes, coupons, or other lists are also common during this time. Until then in the 19th century, scrapbooks were seen as functional as well as aesthetically pleasing. Several factors, including marketing strategies and technological advances, contribute to scrapbooking images that move further towards the aesthetic field over the years.
The advent of modern photography began with the first permanent photograph made by Joseph NicÃÆ'Â © phore NiÃÆ'Â © pce in 1826. It lets the average person start inserting photos into their scrapbook. However, books or albums made exclusively for displaying photos alone were not popularized in the United States until near 1860. Before that, photographs were not considered items to be reproduced and shared. The demand for photo albums was largely driven by the growing popularity of carte de visite, small photos distributed in the same way as visiting cards.
Old clippings tend to have photos installed with photomounting angles and perhaps the notation of who's in the photo or where and when the photo was taken. They often include pieces of memorabilia such as newspaper clippings, letters, etc. The earliest known American Scrapbooker and inventor of scrapbooking inventory was Mark Twain. Twain brings scrapbooks on his journey as he collects souvenirs, clippings and pictures.
Maps Scrapbooking
Clipping examples of friendlies from about 1795 to 1834
The following photos show some pages of the "Memorial of Friendship" scrapbook kept by Anne Wagner, a British woman, between 1795 and 1834. She belongs to the same social circle as Percy Bysshe Shelley's poet. Anne Wagner's scrapbook includes the page he created, as well as contributions from friends and relatives. The memo sheets contain handwritten poems, notes left by friends and relatives, and an ephemera decapage like hair locks, decorative paper clippings, ribbons, and detailed watercolor sketches.
Modern scrapbooking
Marielen Wadley Christensen of Elk Ridge, Utah, is credited with changing scrapbooking from what was once an old hobby into an actual industry containing businesses devoted to the manufacture and sale of scrapbooking supplies. He began designing the creative pages for photographs of his family's memories, putting the finished pages into the protective sheets collected in a 3-ring binder. In 1980, he had collected over fifty volumes and was invited to display it at the World Conference on Records in Salt Lake City. In 1981 Marielen and her husband Anthony Jay ("AJ") wrote and published a way booklet, Keeping Memories of Life, and opened a scrapbook shop in Spanish Fork ending in the same name, which remains open today.
In addition to preserving memories, this hobby is popular for the powerful social networking that scrapbooking can provide. Hobbyists, known as "scrappers" or "scrapbookers," come together and make scrapbooks in their homes, local scrapbook stores, scrapbook conventions, retreat centers, and even on cruise ships. The term "plant", a reference to cut or trim a printed photo, was created to describe this event.
Following the footsteps of Keeping Memories Alive (originally located in the smaller building next door and named The Annex in its early years), many other stores have emerged and served scrapbooking communities. These stores provide many of the tools necessary for every scrapbooker's needs. In addition to Keeping Memories Alive, these include companies like Creative Memories, Making Memories, Stampin 'Up !, and Close to My Heart.
The scrapbooking industry doubled the size between 2001 and 2004 to $ 2.5 billion with more than 1,600 companies making scrapbooking products in 2003. Creative Memories, a home-based retailer of scrapbooking supplies established in 1987, saw $ 425 million in retail sales in 2004. Creative Memories' parent company did file Chapter 11 in 2013 and became bankruptcy with the largest debt in the Twin Cities area.
According to Google Trends, search terms related to scrapbooks and scrapbooking have declined 70 percent since its peak in 2005-2006. However, there is much debate among the community of people involved in the memory storage of what it means to decrease for the health and future of the industry as a whole. What seems to be clear is that traditional scrapbooking is once again in a transitional period because of its many strengths including current economic problems, the influence of social media and the ease of digital sharing, and the rejection of stereotypes from traditional scrapbooks into something that is for older women. However, if one looks more closely, it is easy to see all the ways people resume memory storage even if it does not fall within the traditional scrapbooking definition as defined here.
Some examples include the appearance of Smash books made by EK Success, which in some cases are a closer representation to the original scrapbook in that they are wire-bound books in various sizes consisting of blank printed background paper in which one can journal and glue keepsake into.
Another variation is the introduction and growth of scrapbooking pockets, best known and represented by Project Life created and introduced by Becky Higgins. Higgins created the system in response to his personal desire to continue recording the lives of children and his family, but in a faster and simpler way that enabled him the flexibility to complete projects, but still in an interesting and integrated way.
One of the latest trends in scrapbooking is to bring the layout design to a much smaller size. Small enough to carry in a small bag with updates and areas for creativity and memory storage. Traditional Tourist notebooks are simple leather cover with a band to stay closed. Cover can hold up to six inserts that can be used in many ways. This notebook is getting popular, allowing for journals and storage of memory for any purpose.
Media
Materials
The most important scrapbooking supply is the album itself, which can be permanently bound, or allows for page insertion. There are other formats such as mini albums and folding albums in accordion style. Some of them are adhered to various containers, such as matches, CD boxes, or other small holders. When the memo artists start moving away from the "pages" and to the surface and alternative destinations, they call these creations "altered items" or now called "off-the-page". This movement revolves back into art history from the 1960s when Louise Nevelson performed "Assemblages" with found objects and recycled parts.
Modern scrapbooking is done mostly on 12 inch (30 cm) square or letter size (US Letter (8.5 by 11 inches) or A4 (210 x 297 mm)) pages. Recently, smaller albums became popular. The most common new format is 6, 7, or 8 inches (15, 17.5, or 20 cm) square. It is important for many scrappers to protect their pages with clear page protectors.
Basic materials include background paper (including printed paper and cardstock paper), angle photo mounts (or other ways to attach photos such as adhesive dots, photo tape or acid free glue), scissors, paper cutters or cutlery, pens art, archive pens for journaling, and glue fixing (such as thermo-tac). More complicated designs require more specialized equipment such as die cut templates, rubber stamps, blow crafts, stencils, ink tools, manhole covers, hot emboss tools and personal die cut machines. Many times people who enjoy scrapbooking will make their own background paper using the tools mentioned along with the "luxury" textured scissors.
Various accessories, referred to as "ornaments", are used to decorate the scrapbook pages. Decorations include stickers, rubops, stamps, eyelets, brads, chipboard elements in various shapes, alphabetical letters, lace, wire, cloth, beads, sequins, and ribbons. The use of die cut machines is also increasingly popular; in recent years a number of electronic die-cutting machines that resemble plotter with a knife have hit the market (eg The Cricut), allowing scrappers to use their computers to create dead pieces of various shapes or fonts with free usage or third-party software. The scrapbook maker will also use magazine clippings to "decorate" the scrapbook.
One of the key components of modern scrapbooking is the archival quality of inventory. Designed to preserve photographs and journals in their home country, materials driven by the most serious scrapbookers have higher quality than many commercially available photo albums. Scrapers insist on acid free paper, lignin free paper, stamped ink, and emboss powder. They also use pigment-based inks, which are fade resistant, colorfast, and often waterproof. Many scrappers use buffered paper, which will protect photos from acids in the memorabilia used in the scrapbook. The older album's "Magnet" is not acid-free and thus causes damage to the photos and memorabilia included in it. Gloves are also used to protect photos from oil in hand.
The international standard, ISO 18902, provides specific guidance on materials that are safe for scrapbooking through its requirements for albums, framing, and storage materials. ISO 18902 includes requirements for photo security and specific pH ranges for acid-free materials. ISO 18902 prohibits the use of hazardous materials, including Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and Cellulose nitrate.
Digital scrapbooking
The advent of the scanner, desktop publishing, page layout programs, and advanced printing options make it relatively easy to create professional-looking layouts in digital form. The Internet allows scrapbookers to publish their own work. Scrapbooks that exist entirely in the form of digital images are referred to as "digital scrapbooks" or "computer scrapbooks".
While some people prefer the physical artifacts that they paste onto the pages of the book, digital scrapbooking hobby has grown in popularity in recent years. Some advantages include greater material diversity, less environmental impact, cost savings, the ability to share pages more easily on the internet, and the use of image editing software to experiment with manipulating page elements in multiple ways without making permanent adjustments.. Traditional scrapbook layouts can use background paper with tear edges. While a physical page can only be torn once and never recovered, digital paper can tear and loose easily, allowing scrapbookers to try different looks without wasteful inventory. Some web-based digital scrapbooks include various wallpapers and backgrounds to help users create a rich visual experience. Every paper, photo, or decoration is in its own layer on your document, and you can reposition it at your discretion.
In addition, digital scrapbooking is not limited to storage and digital display. Many digital scrapers print out their completed layouts to be stored in scrapbook albums. Others have professionally printed books in books bound to be saved as mementos. Professional printing and binding services offer free software to create scrapbooks with professional layouts and individual layout capabilities. Due to the integrated design and workflow of the order, real hardcover bound books can be produced more cost-effectively.
Early digital scrapbooks were created from digital photos uploaded to external sites. Over time, this moved to a model of downloading software to a personal computer that would organize photos and help create digital memo sheets. With the growing functionality of Web 2.0, digital scrapbooking will be back online, to avoid the hassles of having to download and install PC software. The availability of inexpensive online storage (e.g., Amazon's S3 service), and the desire to utilize previously uploaded online albums (eg, On Flickr Yahoo) make it easier for users to create online digital compositions directly. Printing on fulfillment requests enables digital scrapbooks to effectively replace traditional scrapbooks.
Digital scrapbooking has advanced to the point where digital scrapbook layout can be done entirely online using Web-based software. Users upload their photos, create a digital scrapbook layout using Web pages and digital scrapbook graphs. The layout can then be downloaded as a low-resolution JPEG file to share on the Web or as a high-resolution JPEG file for printing.
Plants
Scrapbooking Plants (or "Plants") are events where 2 or more scrapbookers come together to work in social circles in books, cards, or other projects. It is similar to old quilting bees used to be common social, but has been replaced by "Plants" today. Participants bring their own specialized equipment to work on the project and there are sometimes vendors in the event to purchase additional scrapbooking needs. In this event, ideas are shared, techniques taught to each other, products used (eg cutting machines like, Silhouette & Cricut) are studied and participants have several hours to days without interruption to work on scrapbook, card or project whatever they need to accomplish. Events are planned informally in someone's home, church hall or meeting venue with larger meeting rooms that include the days in a hotel, where participants live in the same hotel and work in the conference room or conference room at the hotel. with tens to hundreds of participants. Some ways to learn about events mainly from word of mouth, social media, and community posts.
Industry statistics
Some people attribute an increased interest in scrapbooking with a new passion for pedigree, while others say that it is a way out for those interested in photography and graphic design.
For evidence of interest in scrapbooking, consider the following facts:
- More than 4 million women in the United States alone consider themselves scrapbookers.
- More than 4% of all women in the US have done traditional scrapbooking. Millions of other people do various aspects of photo books but not scrapbookers.
- Scrapbooking is one of the largest categories in the craft and hobby industry and is now considered the third most popular craft in the country. From 1996 to 2004, scrapbooking product sales increased throughout the United States. In 2005, annual sales were flat for the first time after years of double growth. From 2006 to 2010 traditional scrapbooking sales have declined, while the digital form of scrapbooking has grown. Traditional scrapbooking sales for 2010 have dropped to about $ 1.6 billion in annual sales from a peak of around $ 2.5 billion in 2005.
Over the same time span the number of independent scrapbooking stores decreased from a high of 4,200 to about 1,200 independent storefronts. The number of scrapbooking manufacturers also declined over the same period from a high of 800 to under 250.
Common Idioms
Journal
In addition to photo collections, tickets, postcards, and other memorabilia, journaling is often a key element in modern scrapbooks. A journal is a text that explains, explains, or accents photographs on a scrapbook page. Contemporary journals can take many forms. It can be reflective and like a story, take a reportive tone, or just be a list of words. Journals can also include song lyrics, quotes, and poetry. The value of the journal lies in the fact that it provides an explanation of a family history that may not be preserved.
Many consider journaling one of the most important elements of each scrapbook. Journals are personal choices and can describe events, photographs, or connect feelings and emotions. Handwriting journalization is best viewed by some scrapbookers who see handwriting valuable to posterity, but many people write on computers and print them onto various surfaces including vellum, ribbon, ribbon, and paper.
Sketch
Scrapbookers will sometimes refer to sketches for inspiration for their pages. Sketches are hand-drawn layouts that show where the position of photos, titles, journals and embellishments. It gives scrapbookers a beginner somewhere to start if they are inexperienced with balancing the layout correctly. Scrapbookers can interpret the sketches in whatever way they choose; this is a great starting point when you have block scrappers. There are many published sketch books and scrapbooking magazines always offer sketches as part of their content.
See also
- The ordinary book, formerly a means of gathering knowledge, usually by writing information into books
- Cricut, home roller.
- Media preservation
- Preservation (library and archive science)
- Silva rerum, a special type of book, a multi-generational history, kept by many Polish noble families from the 16th to 18th centuries.
References
External links
- Scrapbooking in Curlie (based on DMOZ)
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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