A little photo session fun with Freyja (cat) and Sharon, The Bookbinder's Apprentice!
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A little photo session fun with Freyja (cat) and Sharon, The Bookbinder's Apprentice!
#bookbinding #bookbinder #cat #binderycat #bookrestoration #bookrepair #BOOKFORGE #bindERIE #bindery #fun #BW #art #bookarts #bookartist
#bookbinding #bookbinder #cat #binderycat #bookrestoration #bookrepair #BOOKFORGE #bindERIE #bindery #fun #BW #art #bookarts #bookartist
New timely broadside from Michael Kuch debuting at the @nybookfair (Booth D33). As with the related, first term prints (Rise Up, Resist, Reject) it is an open edition. #bookarts #michaelkuch #fightfascism
New timely broadside from Michael Kuch debuting at the @nybookfair (Booth D33). As with the related, first term prints (Rise Up, Resist, Reject) it is an open edition. #bookarts #michaelkuch #fightfascism
Just one more addition to the BOOKFORGE Etsy shop before bed time. If you have a moment, check it out.
https://thebookforge.etsy.com/listing/1896118779/purple-gold-pocket-sized-blank-notebook
I've just added this fun little pocket sized notebook to the BOOKFORGE Etsy shop! Check it out now!
https://thebookforge.etsy.com/listing/1881850830/pocket-sized-blank-notebook-hard-cover
Today’s new book structure from ‘The Art of the Fold’: the Four-Way Map Fold. Very into this one! Hard to photograph as you can position it in so many different ways, but here it’s kind of partially open.
Sharon Smith, the Bookbinder's Apprentice here at BOOKFORGE, has completed her first Drumleaf (photobook) style binding using her hand-pulled decorative paste paper from a previous exercise.
#bookbinder #apprentice #bookbindersapprentice #BOOKFORGE #bookart #bookarts #bookartist #bookbinding #drumleaf
#bookbinder #apprentice #bookbindersapprentice #BOOKFORGE #bookart #bookarts #bookartist #bookbinding #drumleaf
I have two blenders. One is for soups and smoothies. The other is for shredding linen and cotton for paper stuff and crushing iron galls for ink. Last night I crushed iron galls and this morning I made a smoothie, using the correct blender for each. #adulting #mediahistory #bookarts
More blizzard books! I’ve been making these to take to gigs as the physical manifestation of the new Sloth Racket ‘Ten Years of Live Sloths’ live album. Inside I’m hiding a DL code and tiny liner notes. The books are made from random scrap paper, out of date posters etc. These three are heading to Birmingham on Sunday for our gig at Centrala. Gig info:
First attempt at making something from ‘The Art of the Fold’, an amazing book that I recently got with tutorials for making book structures. This one is a blizzard book…
(https://www.artofthefold.com/ for info about the book, which is by Hedi Kyle and Ulla Warchol)
Fellow bookmaking f(r)iends: Thirty seconds into this video, she has a great visual of why folding with the grain is so much better than folding against the grain, and I love it when something kinda makes sense in class, but then a great visual makes it BLOOM into total, complete, obvious sense that I will carry with me always.
Wells College in the US, home of the venerable Wells Book Arts Center, is closing.
https://www.wells.edu/closure/
(h/t conservator and bookbinder Peter Verheyen)
Wells CollegeClosure Announcement
One more: Jacomart (c. 1411-1461), Annunciation
Take a close look at that delicate cloth covering -- wowser!
(from Valencia, Museu de Belles Arts, Inv. 248)
![The angel's robe is deep red with gold, bordered by a strip of black and gold; the angel's wings are deep brown. We have the dove and the words "Ave Gra[tia] plena d[omin]us tecu[m]". on the facing panel, Mary has her hands crossed as if to touch her shoulders; she is in red with white edging and covered with a dark (navy blue?) cloak. The book is open on the lecturn in front of her but she looks at the dove.](https://cdn.masto.host/zirkus/media_attachments/files/112/062/450/389/739/542/original/35365e49824c9a77.jpeg "The angel's robe is deep red with gold, bordered by a strip of black and gold; the angel's wings are deep brown. We have the dove and the words \"Ave Gra[tia] plena d[omin]us tecu[m]\". on the facing panel, Mary has her hands crossed as if to touch her shoulders; she is in red with white edging and covered with a dark (navy blue?) cloak. The book is open on the lecturn in front of her but she looks at the dove.")
I've been haphazardly building a book/manuscript/calligraphy-oriented sample library, but I don't have the doggedness or singular focus of people like Heidi Gustafson (not to mention the resources of organizations like Harvard or Library of Congress).
I would LOVE to have more local ink swatches, handmade paper scraps, etc. Do any crafters in #bookArts or #bookbinding or #calligraphy or #papermaking ever exchange samples of their material experiments?
Whew! Time to get #Caravanserai back on schedule: just posted the conclusion to my survey of the gorgeous verse markers across all 7 volumes of the Baybars #quran
https://open.substack.com/pub/majnouna/p/illuminated-numbers-4?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Alright, this campaign launches on June 1st! Here's a video preview of the Book of Abjad itself: https://vimeo.com/831189624
Other rewards include the Abjad Story monograph, specimen posters & original artwork. Click "notify me" here to know the moment it goes live: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/majnouna/the-book-of-abjad
Boosting much appreciated!
The LAND2 / University of the the West of England Bookarts symposium 'Printmaking, Artists’ books, Landscape and Nature' was brilliant last week — showing the amazing work that comes when artists work with scientists, geographers, geologists, poets and more. There’s an archive page with presenters' links here: https://bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/land2day/
Image: Letters to the Void by Tracy Hill, from her Porosity series. Lithographic drawing on stone #landscape #bookarts #nature
Hi! I haven't been here for a while; I've been traveling in Spain and then NYC. Here's a gift from Madrid, a stunning bookbinding on display at the Arte del Libro museum made by Vicente Cogollor Mingo in 1964. #bookart #BookArts #BookHistory
