Illustration - Paris

Illustration - Paris

FRANCE. PARIS (75) (13TH DISTRICT). BROCA STREET: PLAY OF REFLECTIONS WITH A CAR PARKED OPPOSITE THE FRONT OF THE BOOKBINDING AND GILDING WORKSHOP "RELIURE HOUDART", AT 77 BROCA STREET Photo by Jean-Francois Rollinger/Only Paris/ABACAPRESS.COM

Dragon scale bookbinding: Ancient Chinese art and wisdom

STORY: Dragon scale bookbinding: Ancient Chinese art and wisdom SHOOTING TIME: Recent footage DATELINE: June 3, 2024 LENGTH: 00:00:15 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of dragon scale bookbinding creation STORYLINE: Dragon scale bookbinding is a traditional Chinese method of bookbinding with a history of over 1,000 years. The pages look like swaying leaves, and the book becomes a scroll when you roll it up. Dragon scale bookbinding marks a key transition from scrolls to modern books. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Beijing. (XHTV)

Art of Chinese bookbinding evolves, kept alive

STORY: Art of Chinese bookbinding evolves, kept alive DATELINE: May 20, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:05 LOCATION: CHANGCHUN, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): YU PING, Curator of Jilin University Library STORYLINE: Throughout China's thousands of years of history, the art of bookbinding has been evolving and kept alive. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): YU PING, Curator of Jilin University Library "Ancient books are the cultural carriers of the history, while the art of ancient bookbinding is one of the cultural activities with humanistic connotation. It is a synthesis of art and technology as well as a combination of artistic forms and artistic spirit. Throughout history, the binding of Chinese ancient books has been evolving and maturing with the development of characters, writing materials, printing methods and other factors. As a result, the art of bookbinding with distinctive features in different periods has been created." Chinese bookbinding includes scroll binding, concertina binding, whirlwind

Disaster-hit kids' photo album

Disaster-hit kids' photo album

TOKYO, Japan - Yuma Watanabe (R), a second-year junior high school student in Fukushima Prefecture, Haruki Kanno (2nd from R), a sixth-grade elementary school student in Iwate Prefecture, and other children see the bookbinding process for ''3/11 Kids Photo Journal,'' at a printing company in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on Feb. 10, 2012. The photo album of pictures taken by 33 elementary and junior high school students in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures hit by March 2011 earthquake and tsunami was published on Feb. 23, 2012, by Kodansha Ltd. (Kyodo)