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[billmcc]

If professional binding is out of your reach, there are many places (online and off) that sell scrapbooks and supplies. I just did a Google search on scrapbooking supplies and got over a million hits.

You could expand on your idea and include things like a Stewart coat of arms, clan badge, brief clan history and such.

[hot_rod29]

I thought it was a good idea, but it's always nice to have some validation.

I don't know why i didn't think of scrapbook supplies, since my mother-in-law to be is heavy into that. I still intend to loose mount the fabric swatches, like you would in a sample book, so you can get the full impact of the difference between each weaver and the heft and feel of the materials. The idea of having other items in the book is a great one since I was struggling with exactly how I wanted to identify what each sample was and who the mill was.

I appreciate the ideas and if anyone else has thoughts chime in. and thanks for the offer paulhenry expect a PM from me.
I'll keep posting with what is going on and final decisions. Just waiting for scotweb to be open when I'm not at work so I can call and add the other swatches to the ones that are already ordered.

[Old Hippie]

I appreciate the ideas and if anyone else has thoughts chime in. and thanks for the offer paulhenry expect a PM from me.

When I was attending graduate school at the University of Iowa, I spent a lot of time in that institution's excellent system of libraries. (A whole library for engineering, another for the social sciences, others for other disciplines -- Heaven!) The university also hosts a bookbinding program, which, along with the library science programs, is contained within the libraries.

I only spent time at three universities in the US, so I don't know how widespread such things are, but it may be worth a look if other options don't come through for you.

I recall several fascinating informational displays through the years, showing many historical ways of constructing books.

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