The method of making an exquisite bookmark is as follows:
1. Cut out the body and wings of the owl bookmark from brown and light yellow colored cardboard waste paper.
2. Use glue to stick the wings to both sides of the owl's body.
3. Cut out the eye sockets and eyeballs of the owl bookmark by paper cutting.
4. The eye sockets and eyeballs are glued together.
5. Mouth and feet.
6. Glue the eye sockets, mouth and feet to the corresponding positions on the body of the handmade owl bookmark.
The completed owl bookmark is stuck in the book page using the tip of its beak. The half-exposed little head allows you to find it immediately when the book is closed.
The origin of bookmarks:
1. Bookmarks originated from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. At that time, they were called Yali, which were bookmarks made of ivory. Han Yu of the Tang Dynasty wrote in his poem "Sending Zhuge to Suizhou to Study" that: Yehou's family had many books, with 30,000 scrolls in them. One by one, they are toothpicks, as new as their hands have not touched. Toothpicks are mentioned in this poem. Later, the scroll books were changed into foldable books, and the toothpicks became thinner and made of bone fragments or cardboard. Some of them were also pasted with a layer of patterned silk.
2. After the Song Dynasty, the style of bookmarks was basically finalized, and it became what it is now. Due to the lack of material life in the past, the number of bookmarks on the market is extremely limited. Bookmarks are even appearing in large numbers in the market. It's only happened in recent years, but even so, the number of bookmarks is still relatively less than that of stamp cards, and bookmarks are more prepared and vividly recorded from a certain perspective.
3. A square-inch bookmark is like a mirror, peeking into thousands of years of culture and reflecting all kinds of life. Appreciating this exquisite artistic bookmark while unfolding the book not only adds a lot of emotion, but also becomes a great pleasure of reading.