Memory Scrapbooks

Early Forms Scrapbook

It’s exciting to understand and look into the history of memory keeping/ scrapbooking. It dates back to the14th century in Paris that took the form of diaries and journals. The nobility and well-educated classes kept personal diaries for memory-keeping purposes. Also, to record their thoughts during the renaissance period.

Memory keeping in past

Early scrapbooks or journals were comprised of pages or notes and various reference sources and personal records. Scrapbooking was different since, the press was not invented until the latter half of that century. It’s interesting to note that early personal diaries and journals gradually resembled scrapbooks. As a result, people would add more than notes into the book but also, pictorials and personal cut outs of items.

This, was the initial formation of a particular form of scrapbook known as bullet journals today. The perfection of press print allowed books and journals to become more accessible to people. Subsequently, the first widely available print Bibles were used as a form of holy protection and had personal significance. People during this period would collect personal or family items, such as a lock of hair, and store them within the pages of their Holy Bible.

Furthermore, during the next centuries, basic books reformed and leaned towards illustrated books, as people gained the ability to customise books and add extra elements like leaves.

It’s important to note that scrapbooking wasn’t just a hobby. Scrapbooks also sometimes used as tools of political subversion, and information exchange.
Most importantly, the development of the industrial printing press in the early 1800s was instrumental to modern-day scrapbooking. Therefore, printed greeting cards, calling cards, postcards, prayer cards, advertising trading cards, and other materials were now viewed as novelty keepsakes by the recipients.

In addition, the new era brought a new focus on so-called “friendship albums,” and the tradition of preserving family materials in blank books. “Scrapbooking” became a more feminine pursuit in the later 1800s. Scrapbooks were also used as a way to politely extend social greetings after an event like a childbirth or wedding.

It is noticeably evident that scrapbooking has never faded but has passed through the evolution process throughout the eras to the current digital form of scrapbooking that is extremely popular today. Check Our Latest Scrapbooking Templates Here