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Bookmarks and Bookplates to Collect and Make

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Book Lovers - Leave Your Mark, Find Your Place with Book Labels and Book Marks

 

Bookmarks hold our place between the pages of a book or magazine - gently keeping track of where we left off reading. Bookplates are small labels pasted inside the cover of a book to identify the owner or library owner of the book.

This lens provides tips on finding bookmarks and bookplates you can print or buy, plus designs, tips and patterns for making your own unique bookmarks and bookplates.

Bookplates - Artistic Name Labels for Your Library 

Bookplates were first used in Germany after the introduction of moveable type and book printing presses. The practice of sticking a label with the library owner's name and a bit of art or coat of arms took off from there and was very popular. Today book lovers and libraries still affix bookplates to books to identify and adorn the inside book cover (front or back).

Childrens bookplates encourage young readers to build a personal library beginning in childhood, and they instill a sense of love and respect for books at an early age.

If you love to read, you probably have a collection of books you love, and loan books to family and friends. Adding a bookplate to the inside cover of your books reminds borrowers where to return your treasured volumes when they've finished reading.

Bookplate Designs and Collections 

Ex Libris (from the library of ...)

Antique and new design bookplate collections and pictures. Older labels offer a history of ownership in vintage book collections, while new bookplates identify books from libraries of all types and sizes.
Confessions of a Bookplate Junkie
Random thoughts from a passionate bookplate collector. Lots of beautiful illustrations of antique bookplates.
Northwest Native American bookplates and bookmarks
Personalize your library with these beautiful and authentic bookplates and bookmarks, each featuring an important animal figure in Northwest Native American legend. Customize your bookplates with your name. Or, give them away as gifts!

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Bookmarks to Print and Craft 

Artistic Placeholders Save Your Page and Your Book

Bookmarks are an inexpensive yet thoughtful gift for anyone who reads. You can design a set of bookmarks and bookplates as a gift for just about any occasion. Think about what the recipient enjoys - cooking, gardening, sewing - or design your bookmarks and labels around a holiday theme. You can design a bookmark and bookplate to accompany a book you've chosen as a gift, and use the bookmark as the gift tag.

Spring Tulip Bookmarks

Woodland Spring Painting Art Bookmarks

Valentine Bookmarks


Father's Day Printable Bookmarks - Lion photo with Happy Father's Day - print and cut

Childrens Bookplates - Encourage Kids to Love Books 

My Home Library offers a wide assortment of kid-favorite bookplates. Some bookplates are original designs by kids - both color and black and white plates are included in the collections.

Reading is Fundamental bookplate designs feature fun characters on free printable bookplates for kids (some to color in, and some already in color).

Bookhive offers lovely full color childrens bookplates designed to print on Avery labels.

Design and Print Bookmark Craft Sites for Kids 

Halloween Bookmarks - Bats, Boo and Candy Corn for Trick or Treat!
Free printable Halloween bookmark craft sheet makes 3 colorful Trick or Treat bookmarks or gift tags.
Bookmark Factory--National Geographic Kids Activity
Make bookmarks for yourself and your friends. Write your own text and choose different designs, objects, borders, and backgrounds. When you are finished, print them.
Bookmark Gifts & Craft Projects
Free printable bookmarks and coloring bookmarks to print, cut and give as a thoughtful gift to dad, mom, grandma, grandpa or teacher for father's day, mother's day or any gift occasion.
Free Printable Bookmark Craft Sheets
Free printable kids bookmarks with love, wildlife, reading is cool and holiday themes.
Animal Rights Bookmarks to Print
Free Printable Bookmarks with animal rights related illustrations and high resolution images are available for download as pdf files from the Mirage Bookmark website.
USGS Learning Web :: Explorer :: Playtime :: Download Bookmarks
Bookmarks to print from The Learning Web, a portion of the USGS website dedicated to K-12 education and life-long learning.
Pirate Bookmarks to Color
free printable templates for pirate bookmarks
Kids Crafts Gift Crafts: Bookmarks
Kids Crafts Gift Crafts: Bookmarks These kids crafts bookmarks are simple enough once you have made them a few times.

Bookmarks for Kids to Make 

Encourage Reading and Prevent Damage to Bindings

You can encourage kids to read by having them make colorful bookmarks for themselves and as gifts for friends and family. Bookmarks make ideal party favors and craft activities, plus they offer a creative way to use up bits of leftover craft papers, card stock and trimmings.

Younger children will enjoy decorating a coloring bookmark, then pasting it onto card stock to make a personal bookmark or gift.

Bookmarks are popular favors for kids parties, and as treats for Halloween, summer camp activities or as a small extra tucked into a birthday card. Some bookmarks can even be used as a gift tag - simply write your personal message on the back and the tag becomes a bookmark to treasure for years.

Reading is Cool Bookmarks to Print and Cut Out

Baby Seal Printable Bookmarks - endangered animals print and cut bookmark craft sheet

Bookmark Crafts -Print and Cut Bookmark Crafts Projects for holidays including Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day, Grandparents Day, St. Patrick's Day, Mother's Day,Father's Day

Kwanzaa Bookmarks - Happy Kwanzaa harvest corn bookmark sheet

Fabric and Fiber Bookmarks to Craft 

Knit, crochet, sew, macrame, embroider or quilt a treasured bookmark

Crochet to Go: Flower Bookmark
A quick, use-up-some-leftover-yarn project.
Knitting Bookmarks
Free patterns for easy to knit bookmarks.

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Printable Bookmark Links 

More bookmarks to print, cut out and use

The Paperback Stash: Printable Bookmark Links
A collection of links to printable bookmarks compiled by Erin at the Paperback Stash.
Kid Goodies - Bookmarkers
8 collections of free printable bookmarks in PDF format.
Free Printable Bookmarks
Free printable 2-sided bookmarks with exclusive work by sketch artist John Fisher, vintage fine art and more.

Reading Lovers Bookmark Gifts 

It's a light, it's a bookmark, it's a terrific gift

Zelco LED Bookmark Lite

Amazon Price: $14.59 (as of 10/06/2008)

Not only will this handy tool mark your place in a book, it lights up the page for you when you read.

Booklovers Gift Bookmarks 

Wedding favor, office gifts - bookmarks make the ideal small gift

Wood Bookmark Set of 12 with Fabric Covered Box

Amazon Price: (as of 10/06/2008)

Set of twelve hand painted wood bookmarks with cutout designs, 4" x 1" with satin tassels.in a lovely case.

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