Viking World - Metal Bookmark

The very first bookmark produced by Mirage Bookmark in 1998

etched stainless steel, 135 x 39 mm
This bookmark is still available in the gift shop of Mirage Bookmark website.

The Daily Chronicle - Victorian Bookmark from 1894

One of the most beautiful bookmarks of the Victorian era advertising a newspaper.

IFOB First Year Commemorative Bookmark 2016

International Friends of Bookmarks (IFOB) published a First Year Commemorative Bookmark 2016. - www.ifobookmarks.org

Wobo - the World Traveling Bookmark

Wobo, the World Traveling Bookmark goes places on a mission to help her bookmark friends to get the recognition they deserve. Read more here.

Virginia Woolf Bookmark

Virginia Woolf Bookmark showing a portrait of the writer on the front and a quote by her on the back - available in the Shop of the International Friends of Bookmarks (IFOB) website

Jean Dubuffet Bookmarks

 

The cutout cardboard bookmarks show the figures Le Commentator and La Commissaire by the French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985), the founder of the art movement Art Brut (outsider art) dedicated to art outside the boundaries of the official culture. Altogether four bookmarks with figures by Dubuffet have been created by Mirage Bookmark to serve as merchandises during the Jean Dubuffet exhibition (31.1.-5.8.2016) staged at the leading modern art museum Fondation Beyeler in Switzerland.

Snowy Owl Bookmark

This little guy calls himself Uggla (Swedish for owl) and he is the winner of our contest on Pinterest "Show Us Your Most Beautiful Bookmark". The etched stainless steel bookmark is designed and produced by Anneli Selvefors from Gothenburg, Sweden. Anneli is a PhD student and she runs a small scale design business under the name Novea Design, and she has also an Etsy shop where her bookmarks can be bought.

Little Mori Girl Bookmark by Sylvia Telari

The bookmark is 20 cm tall and is created by the gifted illustrator, concept artist and writer Sylwia Telari (www.telari.eu) in 2015, using ink, watercolour, white & gold gel pen on 400g paper for acrylics. The artwork was commissioned by Mirage Bookmark as a cut-out figural illustration bookmark to include it in the Bookmark Exhibition - The Art of Bookmark, and Sylwia had the idea to realise it in the shape of a little Mori girl.

How to be a Mori Girl (Forest Girl)? - wikiHow
Mori Girl fashion recently emerged in 2007 in Japan. Mori means 'forest' in Japanese, and the style concept is "a girl who looks like she is living in the forest". The look is natural and earthy. The fictional archetype was declared as being the character of Hagu from Honey & Clover. The actual archetype of Mori Girl fashion is the actress Yu Aoi, who as a matter of fact played Hagu in the Honey & Clover movie in 2006. Mori girl has developed not only as a style but as a lifestyle as well! Quirky girls who love vintage clothing, pocket watches, tea, moss or going snooping in the grandma's attic will feel right at home in this fashion style. Although Mori girl fashion is natural, it does not mean it is simple - it does have a little bit of complexity to it.

Paul Gauguin bookmark

Paul Gauguin - Contes Barbares - fine art print bookmark by Mirage Bookmark 

As one of the most extensive Gauguin exhibitions, Fondation Beyeler, the premier modern art museum in Switzerland, brings together about fifty masterpieces by Gauguin, among them several key works of the artist which normally don't leave their home museums. Mirage Bookmark was commisioned to provide four different exquisitely hand-printed fine art card bookmarks for the Art Shop of the museum during the exhibition lasting till 28th of June 2015.

Pattern Bookmark Medway by William Morris

The bookmark shows a wallpaper pattern (detail) by the Arts & Crafts

artist William Morris who called the pattern after the river Medway. 

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Early French Bookmarks

New book about old French bookmarks - www.miragebookmark.ch

Lauren Bacall Bookmark

Front & Back of Lauren Bacall bookmark - www.miragebookmark.ch

Wooden Bookmarks from Lithuania

Cutout wooden bookmarks from Lithuania

Lithuanian Bookmarks

Printed card bookmarks with traditional handicraft patterns from Lithuania.

Vintage bookmarks from Germany - International Women's Costumes

A series of 20 different bookmarks show lovely illustrations of traditional costumes in different countries and regions. The bookmarks were issued in 1953 as giveaways to accompany the new paperback series of the German publishing house Rowohlt. The artworks for the bookmarks were done by the artist Gisela Pferdmenges who created the illustrations and her husband Karl Gröning jr. who was responsible for the typography. The bookmarks are meanwhile sought after collector items. The two copies here show the one for Switzerland (left) and Holland (right). Other titles of the series can be seen on our Bookmark Exhibition - The Art of Bookmark. 

Leonardo da Vinci Bookmarks

Bookmarks with illustrations by Leonardo da Vinci - Collectible bookmarks in Mirage Bookmark Gift Shop

Braunschweig Lebensversicherung Bookmark

Vintage advertising bookmark of the German life insurance company dating from early 1900s  

- Collectible bookmarks in Mirage Bookmark Gift Shop

Bragelonne Editions Bookmarks

Bragelonne is a French publishing house specializing in books of fantasy and science-fiction. The advertising bookmarks are dedicated to different titles of the publisher and are illustrated by renowned artist of comic arts. - www.bragelonne.fr

Advertising Bookmark for the Bookstore LIBRAIRIE BD FUGUE CAFÉ, Lille, France

Illustrated by the famous comic artist François Boucq

Bookmark Switzerland by Mirage Bookmark

Bookmark Switzerland - Illustration by Taha Peyer - www.miragebookmark.ch

Advertising Bookmarks for Paperantic

Advertising bookmarks for Paperantic - a touring Spanish collectibles show 

Cup of Tea Bookmark

Cup of Tea Bookmark by Cozy Memories on Flickr

Art Nouveau Bookmark from 1913

Art Nouveau Bookmark - 1913 The Opening of the International Palace of Justice in The Hague, Holland - Mirage Bookmark Exhibition

Handmade Bookmark Beauties

Bookmark Beauties by Emma Block on Flickr

Zentangle Bookmarks

Zentangle bookmarks - 14 Juillet - by country15 on Flickr

Jeanet produced these bookmarks on the occasion of her country's (France) national holiday on 14 July 2011.

Sewn Tree Bookmarks

Sewn Tree Bookmark by cassia.wu 

New Day Bookmarks

New Day Bookmarks - by tamipal6 on Flickr

Wrapping Paper Bookmark

Handmade bookmark from Etsy: card covered with wrapping paper

Advertising Bookmark by Mirage Bookmark

Advertising bookmark - © Mirage Bookmark 2014 - Junichi Nakahara - Girl in Kimono

Handpainted Eucalyptus Leaves

Great bookmark idea: handpainted eucalyptus leaves by Elena Nuez as bicocacolors on Etsy

Barbara Gordon aka Batgirl Bookmark

Barbara Gordon aka Batgirl Bookmark by The American Library Association (ALA)

Handcrafted Fashion Bookmarks

Handcrafted Fashion Bookmarks via Astrid de Behr on Pinterest

Stitched Moon Bookmark

Stitched Moon Bookmark  by gatheringdust on Etsy

Bacon Bookmark

Bacon Bookmark - photo by James the Page on Tumblr

'I never thought of it, but bacon is actually the perfect size and shape for a bookmark. I'm imagining a nice hardcover edition of Hamlet with a piece of bacon poking out the top - how classy.' - little miao, mariser.vox.com

'The oldest reference is from Omaha, NE, which reported that the Omaha Public Library “has a new trophy in its collection of things used as bookmarks—a slice of bacon.” The article wryly observed that “the library staff will not undertake to preserve it.”' - Laine Farley, The Legend of the Bacon Bookmark, BiblioBuffet Website

Hand Embroidered Felt Bookmark

Hand Embroidered Felt Bookmark by lovemaude on Etsy

Jane Austen Bookmark

Jane Austen Bookmark - © 2014 Mirage Bookmark

backside of the bookmark displays a quote by Jane Austen

Advertising Bookmark by Joost Swarte

Joost Swarte - Advertising bookmark for the bookstore Librarie Expérience

Librarie Expérience in Lyon, France, has commissioned several known illustrators with bookmarks in the past.

Advertising Bookmark for Mirage Bookmark

Advertising bookmark for metal bookmarks - © 2014 Mirage Bookmark

Handpainted Art Nouveau Bookmark

February (detail) - calender sheet by J.M. Auchentaller 1901

handpainted gold ornament on print - © Mirage Bookmark 2013

Dragon Bookmark

Dragon Bookmark - design by Heather Alstead - www.heatheralsteaddesign.com

Cows & Aliens - cross-stitched bookmark

Cows & Aliens - cross-stitched bookmark by Chewie on Flickr

Holiday Handmade Fabric Bookmarks

Holiday Handmade Fabric Bookmarks (Hanukkah & Christmas) | Porter Square Books, Cambridge MA

Vintage Christmas Elf Bookmark

Vintage Christmas Elf Bookmark by donmervin on Flickr

Bad Cat Bookmark

Bad Cat Bookmark by blacklilypie on Flickr

Deer Girl Bookmark by Chelsea

Deer Girl Bookmark by Chelsey - The Paper Mama Blog - www.thepapermama.com

Plight - Clay Bookmarks

Plight - clay bookmarks

Christmas 2013 Bookmark - Mirage Bookmark

Christmas 2013 Bookmark - Mirage Bookmark Gift Shop

Steamship Company of Zeeland

The shipping company “Stoomvaart Maatschappij Zeeland” (SMZ) existed from 1875 to 1989. SMZ served lines from the Netherlands to England.  -  www.adviz.nl

Chrysler Building Bookmark

Chrysler Building NYC - card bookmark produced by Mirage Bookmark

Illustration by Taha Peyer - Mirage Bookmark Gift shop

Recycled Cardboard Bookmarks

Recycled box made into fancy bookmarks by Maya Sinnathamby on Pinterest