Where can I buy good quality bookmarks?

I have to say, when I’m feeling particularly down about the world in general and Mumsnet in particular, I am always cheered when I see
this thread and remember that there are people who care about the quality of their book marks….

Thanks OP for starting this thread. I actually like simple card bookmarks that don't make the book bulge and damage the spine too much. But you can buy all sorts in bookshops, museum shops or online on Etsy, Vinted etc. Or for free ones look at bookshops and libraries. They're souvenirs, and I have some simple card ones for more than 20 years, though I sometimes lose bookmarks too.

My dad was given a silicone bacon rasher book mark once! It was quite realistic - looked like it was some raw streaky bacon.

Metal ones are good. I got some great ones from the Met Museum in New York. Museum shops here might also have some metal ones. Most have online shops.

Nor had I before seeing the ones linked above. I walk past the workshop quite often and they make excellent little gifts for anyone who reads, which are small and light and cheap enough to stick in with a birthday card!

Mumsnet is brilliant at showing me problems I didn’t realize existed. I have literally never, in my whole life, ever thought about the quality of my bookmark.

Your post has me thinking that postcards would be terrific bookmarks.

It would be fun to choose postcards to match the book - for instance, a postcard of Bath for a Jane Austen novel, a portrait of Henry Ford for Brave New World, A picture of a Christmas tree for A Christmas Carol, a picture of flowers for Mrs. Dalloway.

I've heard that too, about bacon! I wonder who it was.

That's a fun story about the money, but I don't see what else could be sensibly done, other than to keep it. Luckily, when I found money in a book, it was my own money!

Waterstones sell some lovely bookmarks.

If you fancy being a bit ‘crafty’, there are some nice bookmark cross-stitch kits you can buy.

The rasher of bacon thing is an urban myth.

www.barrymays.co.uk He's based at Cotehele in Cornwall, and makes thin oak bookmarks (and other stuff too). Indestructible too unless you're prone to burning books!

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/754268711/felted-sheep-bookmark-keepsake-wool-book?ref=share_ios_native_control

these are great.

I just read a few days ago about the critic Cyril Connolly doing just that - the screenshot is from Cultural Amnesia by Clive James. But a quick google suggests there may in fact be a bit of a "bacon as bookmark" subculture...

https://bibliobuffet.com/on-marking-books-columns-195/archive-index-on-marking-books/1025-the-legend-of-the-bacon-bookmark-redux-050309

Same here. I just use cardboard freebies, promotional postcards etc and some of these are years old.

As it happens I picked up a couple of nice ones from the tourist information centre, about an event that was on, during a city break I went on a couple of weeks ago.

I see a lot of people talking about things being 'rubbish that falls apart in no time' on here when I find that the things last for ever in my experience and I wonder 'what on earth are they doing with them'.

I like the magnetic ones because I’m clumsy and always drop my books and normal ones fall out and I lose my page

I use nice birthday cards, it's a pleasure to find old ones in half-read books. Especially ones from my sister who always puts the date. Is it really ten years since I abandoned Martin Chuzzlewit?

I remember reading once about some minger who used a rasher of bacon for a bookmark - in a library book!

I agree with you, though: whilst a 'special bookmark might be a nice thing to have, any old bit of paper, card or similar will do.

I'm now vaguely remembering a thread from some time ago about somebody who bought a book from a National Trust second hand book room, and it contained quite a number of banknotes within the pages. If I recall correctly, it was OP's friend who bought the book and saw the money as a serendipitous bonus, whilst OP was horrified that she just kept it.

Imagine my surprise. It never occurred to me that people might regularly actually pay for bookmarks, and want "quality" ones that don't fall apart. I mostly just grab whatever is at hand. Including money. Long ago, when I was in Florence, where there were all kinds of inexpensive leather goods, I bought a bunch of lovely bookmarks - and much later found that the discolored the page if you left them in too long.

These days, I find freebies at libraries or bookstores. They're just lightweight cardboards, but I don't need them to last, although they often do. I've also seen nice ones in museums.

Dc bought me a personalised leather bookmark - probably through etsy.

Tourist attractions and museum shops often have leather bookmarks.

Thank you. I was looking for a leather bookmark for an anniversary present.

Making Meadows on Etsy have some nice ones.

This is my moomins bookmark and the one i sewed for my Mum's birthday

We have a load of different bookmarks from Waterstones.

I love this.
https://holly.co/shop/product/personalised-rare-silk-war-escape-map-leather-bookmark/b4b2b527-f282-49a6-953a-58910aa4ca54?srsltid=AfmBOoqzLWO0x-IKsv2fHci5t2pWd3Uof16QKESKD_DEJWIS9hgcWhvW