My Friday Image: Started in a Book Tunnel Ended Up In A Library

A Tunnel made out of books! Wonder of Wonders. Imaging crawling through it as it  becomes narrower and narrower. Would your thoughts dwindle as you wandered further into its clutches? Or would you linger by the opening and stare in wonder at the sheer size of it? Who knows where this tunnel of books could take you? Anyway, whatever you do don’t pinch any of the books, you’ll spoil the look!

It’s sunny outside. Washing time.  Air those books!

If you’ve got time on your hands and you’re feeling romantic? Try your hand at book sculpture.

Or would you prefer something a bit more traditional?

Or fantastical?

Maybe you’ve got a thing for rare books? Look no further than the Garrett Library ‘s collection of rare books and manuscripts gathered together over two generations by T. Harrison Garrett and his son John Work Garrett, before the latter bequeathed the collection in 1942 to Johns Hopkins University. Today, it is part of the Department of Special Collections at the university’s Sheridan Libraries, with some 30,000 volumes in all, the large majority of which are represented on-line in the Sheridan Libraries On-line Catalog.

Library nut? Visiting Amsterdam? Have you been to the Rijksmuseum’s library in Amsterdam? Doesn’t it look incredible?

Or maybe you might consider the US. The library of Congress in Washington D.C. is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections.

Well, I’ve been so distracted with writing this post and finding all these amazing images that I’ve had no breakfast or coffee so with that in mind. I will have to close this off with a few links:

For book sculptures visit these amazing sites:

http://www.sublackwell.co.uk/portfolio-book-cut-sculpture/

http://www.fuckyeahbookarts.tumblr.com

And libraries:

Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/

John Work Garrett Library: http://www.museums.jhu.edu/evergreen.php?section=collections&collection=john-work-garrett-library

20 Most famous libraries in the World: http://www.topdesignmag.com/20-of-the-worlds-most-famous-libraries/

Have you been to any of these amazing libraries?  Or found some wonderful book sculptures? If you have please tell me all about it in the comment field below. I’d love to hear your stories. Breakfast awaits!