[Ekstationers] Beginnings of this List

[Helen Pinto]

Greetings-
I'm Aidan ni Leir, recently re-located to the Canton of Steltonwald in 
AEthelmearc, formerly from Ostgardr in the East.  There is interest here as 
well, but nothing organized, and since Lyle invited me, here I am.
I'm an old C&I person, but more of a binder now for the last six or seven 
years (although the locals got me back in last summer after an eighteen-year 
hiatus).  I'm interested in bookbinding, primarily the practical, work-a-day 
bindings, as opposed to treasure bindings, all sorts of medieval and 
Renaissance office equipment and furniture, writing implements, early 
mechanical printing, the spread of technology, trade routes, paper, Ebru, 
Japanese bindings, and C&I, of course.  In other words, mostly everything. 
I regularly teach several different bookbinding and calligraphy classes at 
Pennsic and AEthelmearc AEcademy, and taught at EKU befure I moved, so I may 
have already met some of you.  I bind books on commission, and have a 
sporadic business selling longstitch-bound blank books.
So much to learn, so little time.
                          -Aidan