Scrapbooking

This type of creativity is a way of storing personal and family history in the form of photos, newspaper clippings, drawings, records and other memorable details with the help of special visual and tactile techniques.

The main idea of scrapbooking is to preserve photos and other memorabilia of any events for the long term for future generations.

The collection of albums with clippings and memorabilia was first mentioned in 1598. At that time, they began to collect poems, quotations and their own observations and paste them into ordinary books. In England, notebooks for recording favorite poems, memorable aphorisms and quotes became popular. In 1706, John Locke published a book called New Method of Making Commonplace.

Around the same time, so-called “friend books” appeared in Germany, girls collected the hair of their girlfriends and sewed complex patterns from them, decorating them with ribbons and flowers. At the same time, notebooks for recordings differed from modern scrapbooking, since they contained only some disparate collection of texts, while scrapbooks usually pay attention and emphasize a certain person or event.

Scrapbooking took its modern form in the XVII century. In 1826, Germany began to actively collect scraps from albums, as began to print albums with images, engravings and lithographs. But the real furor was created by John Poole's book called Manuscript Gleanings and Literary Scrapbook, which described various ways to creatively design poems, recordings and other cuttings. The term “scrapbooking” appeared in the 1830s.

An important stage in the development of scrapbooking was the appearance of photography. The first experiments in this direction were conducted by Joseph Nicéphore Niepce, in 1826 he created the first samples of photographs. By the end of the XIX century, another inventor named George Eastman showed the world a simple camera, which opened up to scrapbooking fans simply stunning horizons.

In 1872, Mark Twain, a famous writer, patented his “self-filled” album, an integral part of which were strips of glue on the pages to fix on them memorable trifles. By 1901, he had created more than 57 versions of these albums.

In 1976, at the World Recording Conference, the Christensen family of Utah flaunted their 50 albums about their family history. After there was interest in their albums, they decided to write a book about the art of scrapbooking called “Reviving Memories.”

In 1981, Marielen and her husband founded the first shop for scrapbooking lovers, and in 1996 they created the world’s first Internet site through which you can order products for making albums.

At the moment, scrapbooking is one of the most common hobbies among American women, the turnover of the industry in which since 1990 has amounted to more than two billion dollars.

In the XVIII century, manuscript albums appeared in Russia, which were decorated with a variety of elements; and such albums were made by both the male and female part of the population. This tradition came from Western Europe, mainly from Germany and France (by the way, the word "album" came from French and means "memory book"). In Soviet times, the tradition of making memorable albums not only did not lose its popularity, but also received a tangible impetus due to the spread of photography and cameras, and one of the brightest examples of such creativity from the male part of the population were the so-called Dembel albums. But the very approach to preserving memories, called scrapbooking, was still far away.

The first documentary mention directly about scrapbooking in the post-Soviet space was made in the eponymous topic of the forum Osinka on January 31, 2006 on behalf of Ekaterina Belikova. A year later, Ekaterina made the first attempt to collect all the information on scrapbooking that existed at that time, creating a resource “All about scrapbooking from Katya Belikova”, on which she posted including hand-made translations of some English-language articles, and in memory of the creation of the very first source of information, the scrapbook masters decided to celebrate the Day of Russian scrapbooking (or Scrapbooking Day in Russia), which is celebrated on January 31.

At the end of August - early September 2008, the efforts of several scrap-masters at once created the Skrap-Info resource, the organizers of which brought together in one place both the possibility of learning and teaching (in the form of articles, master classes, as well as various competitions) and the possibility of communicating on the forum, and since April 2009 began to produce a specialized magazine on scrapbooking in Russian.