Facts on the theme of“scrapbooking”
Scrapbooking is a method for preserving personal and family history in the form of photographs, printed media, and memorabilia contained in decorated albums, or scrapbooks.
With the advent of affordable paper, precursors to modern scrapbooks became available to a wider array of people.
"Keeping a scrapbook" is a longstanding American tradition.
Commonplace books (or commonplaces) were a way to compile knowledge, usually by writing information in scrapbooks filled with items of every kind: medical recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, proverbs, prayers, legal formulas.
Commonplaces were used by readers, writers, students, and humanists as an aid for remembering useful concepts or facts they had learned.
Friendship albums became popular in the 16th century.
Friendship albums were used much like modern day yearbooks, where friends or patrons would enter their names, titles and short texts or illustrations at the request of the album's owner.
Friendship albums and school yearbooks afforded girls in the 18th and 19th centuries an outlet through which to share their literary skills, and allowed girls an opportunity to document their own personalized historical record previously not readily available to them.
“Scrappers” is the slang name given for people who scrap book.
The practice of leaving pages to personalize at the end of books became known as “grangerizing”, encouraging people to illustrate and embelish these pages.
Old scrapbooks tended to have photos mounted with photomount corners and perhaps notations of who was in a photo or where and when it was taken.
Old scrapbooks often included bits of memorabilia like newspaper clippings, letters, etc.
The scrapbooking industry doubled in size between 2001 and 2004 to $2.5 billion
By 2003, over 1,600 companies were creating scrapbooking products.
In the US, this hobby has surpassed golf in popularity: one in five households has someone playing golf; one in four has someone involved in scrapbooking.
Modern scrapbooking is done largely on 12 inch (30 cm) square or A4 (210 by 297 mm)) pages
More recently, smaller albums have become popular. The most common new formats are 6, 7, or 8-inch (15, 17.5, or 20 cm) square. It is important to many scrappers to protect their pages with clear page protectors.
Basic materials include background papers (including printed and cardstock paper), photo corner mounts (or other means of mounting photos such as adhesive dots, photo mounting tape, or acid-free glue), scissors, a paper trimmer, art pens, archival pens for journaling, and mounting glues (like thermo-tac).
More elaborate scrapbooking designs require more specialized tools such as die cut templates, rubber stamps, craft punches, stencils, inking tools, eyelet setters, heat embossing tools and personal die cut machines.
“Embellishments” are scrapbooking accersories and decorations.
Embellishments are used to decorate scrapbook pages. Embellishments include stickers, rub-ons, stamps,eyelets, chipboard elements in various shapes, alphabet letters, lace, wire, fabric, beads, sequins, and ribbon.
The use of die cut machines in scrapbooking is becoming increasingly popular; in recent years a number of electronic die-cutting machines resembling a plotter with a drag knife have hit the market, enabling scrappers to use their computer to create die cuts out of any shape or font with the use of free or third party software.
Scrapbookers insist on acid-free, lignin-free papers, stamp ink, and embossing powder.
Scrapbookers also use pigment-based inks, which are fade resistant, colorfast, and often waterproof.
Many scrappers use buffered paper, which will protect photos from acid in memorabilia used in the scrapbook.
Older "magnetic" albums are not acid-free and thus cause damage to the photos and memorabilia included in them.
Scrappers often use gloves to protect photos from the oil on hands
Digital scrapbooking is scrapbooking in digital form, often online.
The advent of scanners, 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 self publish their work. Scrapbooks that exist completely in digital image form are referred to as "digital scrapbooks" or "computer scrapbooks."
Often, digital scrappers print their finished layouts to be stored in scrapbook albums.
Some digital scrappers have books professionally printed in hard bound books to be saved as keepsakes.
Many professional printing and binding services offer free software to create scrapbooks with professional layouts and individual layout capabilities.
Because of the integrated design and order workflow, real hardcover bound books can be produced more cost effectively.
Genealogy is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history.
Genealogists use oral traditions, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members.
Over 25 million people in the United States alone consider themselves to be scrapbookers.
Almost 30% of all U.S. households have at least one family member who scrapbooks.
Scrapbooking is the fastest growing sector of the craft and hobby industry and now considered to be the third most popular craft in the nation. From 2002 to 2004, sales of scrapbooking products increased by over 27% across the United States.
As of 2003, there were over 4,000 independent scrapbook stores in the United States. Most major craft stores such as Hobby Lobby and Michaels Crafts, also have extensive selections of scrapbooking supplies
“Scrapping” and “scrappin” are both terms used to refer to scrapbooking.
“ DigiScrappin” is a term used to refer to Digital Scrapbooking.
"Faithbooking” is the art of scrapbooking feelings, prayers, memories, and events related to one's faith.
“Cropping” is gathering together to scrapbook at a home, scrapbook store, or convention. Such an event is called a crop. A person brings their own materials to create pages while socializing with other scrapbookers. An equivalent to a modern day "quilting bee".
“Matting” is putting a border around your pictures. Simply lay your photograph on a piece of cardstock and trim around the photo. The size of the trim can be any size. Matting is an easy and efficient way to frame a photo.
“Memorabilia” refers to items that help recreate the memories. Examples might include programs, ticket stubs, postcards, invitations, awards, phamphlets, etc.
“Journaling” is writing a dialogue that runs alongside the images of your scrapbook
Journaling can take many forms: It can be reflective and story-like, take a reportive tone, or simply be a list of words.
Journaling may also include song lyrics, quotes, and poems.
Journaling is a personal choice and it can describe the event, the photographs, or relate feelings and emotions.
Handwritten journaling is considered best by some scrapbookers who see handwriting as valuable for posterity
Many people journal on the computer and print it onto a variety of surfaces including vellum, tape, ribbon, and paper.
“Media preservation” is the preservation of documents, pictures, recordings, digital content, etc.
Media preservation is a major aspect of achival science.
Common storage media are not permanent, and there are few reliable methods of preserving documents and pictures for the future.
Black and white photographic films using silver halide emulsions are the only film types that have proven to last for archival storage.
On August 2006 The Scrapbooking Industry commercially celebrated twenty-five years of existence
Marielen W. Christensen opened ‘Keeping Memories Alive’, the worlds first scrapbooking store, head quartered in Spanish Fork, Utah, USA, in 1981.
When you google "scrapbooking" and you get nearly 18 million results.
Past famous scrapbookers include Lillian Hellman, Zelda Fitzgerald, Saul Steinberg, and Anne Sexton,
Anne Sexton, not only included her first efforts at verse in her scrap book, but also the key from the motel room where she and her husband spent their wedding night.
"Scrapbook-making volunteers" put together memory books for military personnel serving overseas during both world wars.
Mark Twain despite the fact that he wasn't a scrapbooker himself, invented a "self-pasting" scrapbook, which earned him more than $50,000 in royalties.
‘Visual journalism’ is the practice of strategically combining words and images to convey information.
WH Smith's are trialing scrapbooking in six shops across the uk
Results from my first questionaire
When asked which of the following they kept:
9.1% of people said that they keep a Diary/Journal
18.2% of people said that they keep a Scrapbook
24.2% of people said that they keep a Photo album
27.3% of people said that they keep a Blog
9.1% of people said that they keep a Webpage
12.1% of people said that they keep something other than the above.
Almost 90% of people agreed when asked whether they think that it is fair to say that people feel the need to have a way of documenting their life.
2 in 3 people agreed that documenting your life in this way helps people to move forwards with their life; perhaps in terms of coping with loss of loved ones and other difficult times.
When asked what the main appeal of a scrapbook would be to them:
26.7% said it would be the way that it is a more visual alternative to a diary that appeals the most
26.7% said it would be because it acts as an aid to help you remember parts of your life that you might otherwise forget
20% said it was simply a more interesting and personal way to display your photographs
6.7% said it was the art and craft element that appealed the most
20% said it was another reason other than the options listed
2 in 3 people felt that hand made scrapbooks have more appeal than online scrapbooks, blogs, websites and other personalized social networking sites.
2 in 3 people said that they would keep a scrap book if they had more spare time.
Over 90% of people asked felt that scrapbooking is a hobby kept predominantly by women. (Interestingly the ratio of people taking the survey was 60% male 40% women.
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