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Scrapbooking

Needlecraft-Adjacent and Braiding Hobbies

Preserving family photographs, keepsakes and stories in decorated albums. It descends from the commonplace books and friendship albums of earlier centuries, and its modern craft-store form, with acid-free papers, die cuts and journaling, grew into a major home industry from the early 1980s. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Hobby Class
Making and Building 1
Established When (Circa)
Descended from commonplace books; the modern scrapbooking industry dates from the early 1980s 1
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Source Scrapbooking (Wikipedia)
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1. Scrapbooking (Wikipedia)
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  • Introduction, first sentence
    Scrapbooking is a method of preserving, presenting, and arranging personal and family history in the form of a book, box, or card.
  • Commonplace books section
    In the 15th century, commonplace books, popular in England, emerged as a way to compile information that included recipes, quotations, letters, poems, and more.
  • Industry statistics section, genealogy sentence
    Some people attribute the increased interest in scrapbooking to a renewed passion for genealogy, while others say that it is an outlet for those interested in photography and graphic design.
  • History section, photograph albums sentence
    However, books or albums made specifically for showcasing photographs alone were not popularized in the United States until closer to 1860.
  • Materials section, acid-free papers sentence
    Scrappers insist on acid-free, lignin-free papers, stamp ink, and embossing powder.
  • Digital scrapbooking section, first sentence
    Scrapbooks that exist completely in digital image form are referred to as "digital scrapbooks" or "computer scrapbooks".
  • Crops section, first sentence
    Scrapbooking crops (or "Crops") are events where two or more scrapbookers gather to work in a social circle on their books, cards or other projects.
  • Industry statistics section, sales decline sentence
    Traditional scrapbooking sales for 2010 have declined to about $1.6 billion in annual sales from a peak of about $2.5 billion in 2005.
  • Associated With: Genealogy, Industry statistics section
    Some people attribute the increased interest in scrapbooking to a renewed passion for genealogy, while others say that it is an outlet for those interested in photography and graphic design.
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