Suzanne Karr Schmidt
@drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
Curator of (very old) curious books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera (newberry.org), Director of a pop-up book society (movablebooksociety.org). History of art, science, decorative food, pirates. Where's your WHIMSY? Mostly Chicago. She/her
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Some Rare Bookish News!
Man and dog find 16th c. German books on the Chicago sidewalk; I (eventually) find their rightful owner! www.chicagotribune.com/2024/11/22/c...
Man and dog find 16th c. German books on the Chicago sidewalk; I (eventually) find their rightful owner! www.chicagotribune.com/2024/11/22/c...
Look Out for Insane Foliage!
Hand-painted incunable borders and a little bit of book guts for a treat at #NewberryLibrary. (Inc. 1286; 109.5; 7250)
#Illuminated #BindingWaste
Hand-painted incunable borders and a little bit of book guts for a treat at #NewberryLibrary. (Inc. 1286; 109.5; 7250)
#Illuminated #BindingWaste
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Look Out for Insane Foliage!
Hand-painted incunable borders and a little bit of book guts for a treat at #NewberryLibrary. (Inc. 1286; 109.5; 7250)
#Illuminated #BindingWaste
Hand-painted incunable borders and a little bit of book guts for a treat at #NewberryLibrary. (Inc. 1286; 109.5; 7250)
#Illuminated #BindingWaste
I was astounded at their creativity! Glad you enjoyed it too...
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I was astounded at their creativity! Glad you enjoyed it too...
Amazing!
(Especially once I learned the Passementerie Mill often makes all the components for more complicated corded design from the bottom up! Even with machines, a stunning amount of effort goes into this trim!)
(Especially once I learned the Passementerie Mill often makes all the components for more complicated corded design from the bottom up! Even with machines, a stunning amount of effort goes into this trim!)
November 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Amazing!
(Especially once I learned the Passementerie Mill often makes all the components for more complicated corded design from the bottom up! Even with machines, a stunning amount of effort goes into this trim!)
(Especially once I learned the Passementerie Mill often makes all the components for more complicated corded design from the bottom up! Even with machines, a stunning amount of effort goes into this trim!)
What have we here? 🧐
November 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
What have we here? 🧐
Calm down, Mr. Wavy Loom!
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Calm down, Mr. Wavy Loom!
Okay, maybe just one more machine...
November 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Okay, maybe just one more machine...
FIVE SHUTTLES!?
Fin.
Fin.
November 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
FIVE SHUTTLES!?
Fin.
Fin.
Here are the ribbons... Having trouble posting the last video though!
November 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Here are the ribbons... Having trouble posting the last video though!
ONE Shuttle... (Making a MADE IN CHICAGO ribbon)
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
ONE Shuttle... (Making a MADE IN CHICAGO ribbon)
PLEASE KEEP YOUR ARMS AND LEGS INSIDE THE RIDE AT ALL TIMES
Laces maker with a central cord at the Passementerie Mill, Chicago!
Laces maker with a central cord at the Passementerie Mill, Chicago!
November 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
PLEASE KEEP YOUR ARMS AND LEGS INSIDE THE RIDE AT ALL TIMES
Laces maker with a central cord at the Passementerie Mill, Chicago!
Laces maker with a central cord at the Passementerie Mill, Chicago!
Saw some amazing things at the Passementerie Mill and the Weaving Mill this Open House Weekend!
#Textiles #FiberArts
#Textiles #FiberArts
November 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Saw some amazing things at the Passementerie Mill and the Weaving Mill this Open House Weekend!
#Textiles #FiberArts
#Textiles #FiberArts
Bookish and messy as charged! And we do have a resident potter... 😁
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 24, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Bookish and messy as charged! And we do have a resident potter... 😁
And eventually landed my dream job as a curator at the Newberry Library, where I can indulge my odd notion that exhibitions should be free to the public and that researchers and readers should be able to touch... Everything!
November 24, 2025 at 4:18 AM
And eventually landed my dream job as a curator at the Newberry Library, where I can indulge my odd notion that exhibitions should be free to the public and that researchers and readers should be able to touch... Everything!
Finding out that you could write a dissertation on something entirely new was a step in the right direction though, so I became the world's first PhD specializing in Renaissance pop-up books! (Yes, Dürer technically published one)...
Spent time in many different museums in Prints and Drawings...
Spent time in many different museums in Prints and Drawings...
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Finding out that you could write a dissertation on something entirely new was a step in the right direction though, so I became the world's first PhD specializing in Renaissance pop-up books! (Yes, Dürer technically published one)...
Spent time in many different museums in Prints and Drawings...
Spent time in many different museums in Prints and Drawings...
Always wanted to work in museums, especially when "artist" wasn't realistic, and "Cave Art Historian" was too niche! And after a summer internship there, I figured the National Gallery of Art had the Dutch Baroque covered! So German Renaissance and an unhealthy fixation with Albrecht Dürer it was...
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Always wanted to work in museums, especially when "artist" wasn't realistic, and "Cave Art Historian" was too niche! And after a summer internship there, I figured the National Gallery of Art had the Dutch Baroque covered! So German Renaissance and an unhealthy fixation with Albrecht Dürer it was...
Reposted by Suzanne Karr Schmidt
telling my Baptist friends this is a Catholic Mass
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
telling my Baptist friends this is a Catholic Mass
Good Boy!
19th c. bookplate of Carlo Bologna-Canossa in a 1488 Apuleius translation of Hermes Trismegistus. Dogs with bones were on the family crest all the way back! #exlibris
#BravoBuonoRagazzo
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19th c. bookplate of Carlo Bologna-Canossa in a 1488 Apuleius translation of Hermes Trismegistus. Dogs with bones were on the family crest all the way back! #exlibris
#BravoBuonoRagazzo
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November 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Good Boy!
19th c. bookplate of Carlo Bologna-Canossa in a 1488 Apuleius translation of Hermes Trismegistus. Dogs with bones were on the family crest all the way back! #exlibris
#BravoBuonoRagazzo
#NewberryLibrary (Inc. 7172) i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...
19th c. bookplate of Carlo Bologna-Canossa in a 1488 Apuleius translation of Hermes Trismegistus. Dogs with bones were on the family crest all the way back! #exlibris
#BravoBuonoRagazzo
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Plenarium with Plenty of Pizzazz!
Book with prayers and woodcuts of Christ's Passion, from Augsburg, 1474.
#NewberryLibrary (Inc. 1607.4)
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Book with prayers and woodcuts of Christ's Passion, from Augsburg, 1474.
#NewberryLibrary (Inc. 1607.4)
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November 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Plenarium with Plenty of Pizzazz!
Book with prayers and woodcuts of Christ's Passion, from Augsburg, 1474.
#NewberryLibrary (Inc. 1607.4)
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Book with prayers and woodcuts of Christ's Passion, from Augsburg, 1474.
#NewberryLibrary (Inc. 1607.4)
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Excuse Me, Do You Have A Moment To Talk About Our Lord and Me?
November 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Excuse Me, Do You Have A Moment To Talk About Our Lord and Me?
Sorry! 😬
But... that IS what it is.
Try to think of it as thin leather maybe?
But... that IS what it is.
Try to think of it as thin leather maybe?
November 21, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Sorry! 😬
But... that IS what it is.
Try to think of it as thin leather maybe?
But... that IS what it is.
Try to think of it as thin leather maybe?
Oooh, I think I have one of those! Best Taschen purchase ever! (German Weltchronik inside.) 😁
November 20, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Oooh, I think I have one of those! Best Taschen purchase ever! (German Weltchronik inside.) 😁
It's a beaut!
November 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
It's a beaut!