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The Typographer's Manual
I received a beautiful Typographer's Manual and a typometer, produced there by Joana from Clube dos Tipos.
At the shop: books about flax!
Finding books on flax cultivation written in Portuguese is not easy. Most of the ones I find that are actually useful for practice were published in the first half of the 20th century and are rarities, really.
The Woodworking Tools book is back in the shop
After being sold out for a couple of months, the Woodworking Tools book is again available at the shop.
Flax growing advice from Eng. Flávio Martins
There are books that are more extense on the flax subject, but I consider these written in the 1940’s by Eng. Flávio Martins something special because they had a clear mission: to ensure that the farmers that were growing flax for EFANOR had all the necessary information to produce good quality crops.
Recent acquisitions
The books I look for are always more technical and practical than historical or ethnographic, which makes them harder to find. But recently I've come across a few that have to do with topics I'm researching.
Woodworking tools: What they are called. What they are for.
This book and poster about woodworking hand tools used in Carpentry and Joinery exist for a very simple reason: one day I needed to find a book that would simply list all these tools, because when I'm in a workshop I like to at least be able to tell apart a gouge from a chisel, and I couldn't find anything that was clear and simple.