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B3317. Handmade Books For a Healty Planet / Kapuscinski
Handmade Books for a Healthy Planet: Sixteen Earth-Friendly Projects from Around the World by Susan Kapuscinski. 2010. 132pp. 8.5" x 8.5". Paper
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This book of projects for your kids or grandkids explores the fascinating world of handmade books. They will learn about history around the world while they make their own books with earth-friendly recycled materials. All that is needed are cereal boxes, grocery bags, scissors, and glue stick. The step-by-step instructions include: Wish Scroll from Ethiopia, Medieval Book of Hours, Time Line Accordion book from Central America and Mexico, Book of Haiku from Japan. Good for classroom instruction or just fun.
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B3208. Everywhere Being is Dancing / Bringhurst
Everywhere Being is Dancing: Twenty Pieces of Thinking by Robert Bringhurst. 2009. 352pp. 5.25"x8.5". Paper
The companion volume to The Tree of Meaning (B2898, $17.95). Everywhere Being is Dancing collects twenty essays under the subversive principle that "everything is related to everything else." His studies build upon this sense of basic connection, involving the work of poets, musicians, artists and philosophers as varied as Aristotle, J.S. Bach, Glenn Gould, Dennis Lee, Don McKay, Joan Miró, Plato, Ezra Pound, Skaay and Gary Snyder. Includes Bringhurst's own translations of the fragments of Parmenides and Cháálatsoh's Navajo narrative "The Origin of Horses."
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B3221. Thread that Binds by Pamela Leutz HARDBOUND
The Thread That Binds by Pamela Train Leutz. 2010. 352pp. 6"x9". Hardcover $55.00.
Comprised of 21 interviews of independent bookbinders in a quest to learn about the lives of representatives of this field. Each chapter tells a different story. You discover the challenges, successes, and "common threads" among each of the binders. Includes images offering a closer look at these bookbinders' studios, as well as photographs of the bookbinders themselves. Each binder is introduced to us first by Pamela Leutz; the interview follows. A special interview with bookbinder Don Etherington is included. An excellent book for those considering working on their own in the field of bookbinding.
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B3223. Thread that Binds by Pamela Leutz PAPER
The Thread that Binds by Pamela Leutz. 2010. 352pp. 6"x9". Paperback
Comprised of 21 interviews of independent bookbinders in a quest to learn about the lives of representatives of this field. Each chapter tells a different story. You discover the challenges, successes, and "common threads" among each of the binders. Includes images offering a closer look at these bookbinders' studios, as well as, photographs of the bookbinders themselves. Each binder is introduced to us first by Pamela Leutz, the interview follows. A special interview with bookbinder Don Etherington is included. An excellent book for those considering working on their own in the field of bookbinding.
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B3229. Bookbinding & Conservation HC / Don Etherington.
Bookbinding & Conservation: A Sixty-Year Odyssey of Art and Craft by Don Etherington. 2010. 180pp. 8.5"x11". Hardcover
List Price: $49.95.
Don Etherington began bookbinding at the age of thirteen and went on to study bookbinding and design at the London School of Printing. This autobiography takes you through his lifelong journey of bookbinding and conservation, including his teaching and his journey from Europe to the US, where he became Training Officer and Assistant Restoration Officer at the Library of Congress in 1970. This account of his personal and professional life includes his generous contribution to the conservation effort in Florence, Italy, following the great flood that caused incredible damage to thousands of books. Etherington's work can be found in collections worldwide. Numerous personal photographs and a gallery of Etherington's fine bindings.
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B3230. Bookbinding and Conservation SHEETS / Etherington. UNBOUND SIGNATURES
Bookbinding and Conservation: A Sixty-Year Odyssey of Art and Craft by Don Etherington. 2010. 180pp. 8.5" x 11". UNBOUND SIGNATURES
Don Etherington began bookbinding at the age of thirteen and went on to study bookbinding and design at the London School of Printing. This autobiography takes you through his lifelong journey of bookbinding and conservation, including his teaching and his journey from Europe to the US, where he became Training Officer and Assistant Restoration Officer at the Library of Congress in 1970. This account of his personal and professional life includes his generous contribution to the conservation effort in Florence, Italy, following the great flood that caused incredible damage to thousands of books. Etherington's work can be found in collections worldwide. Numerous personal photographs and a gallery of Etherington's fine bindings.
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B3156. Book + Art / Krause
Book + Art: Handcrafting Artists' Books by Dorothy Simpson Krause. 2009. 144pp. 8-1/4"x9-7/8" Paper
List Price: $24.99.
Rather than a book solely on binding techniques, this book’s premise is to view the book as a form of creative expression. The book presents a wide range of binding techniques & structure styles and methods to transform or create the pages through mixed media/collage, printmaking, and more. Step-by-step photos and complete instructions for each of the binding techniques and mixed media application are provided. Krause is a book artist, collage-maker and printmaker.
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B3162. Book Art Object / Jury
Book Art Object edited by David Jury. 2008. 448pp. 12.3"x9.4". Hardcover.
Book art object is a record of the first biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium: "The Fate of the Art" held in Berkeley CA. The 735 color images showcase contemporary artist books and fine press & fine art editions produced by some of the worlds most esteemed printers, designers, book artists, and artisans. The text includes: Sarah Bodman, "Overview of contemporary artists publishing in the UK"; Robert Bringhurst, "Spiritual geometry: the book as a work of art"; and Felipe Ehrenberg, "Cutting and pasting: metaphor of life." Superbly illustrated in full color throughout.
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B3085. Bookbinding Handbook / Sue Doggett
The Bookbinding Handbook: Simple Techniques and Step-by-Step Projects by Sue Doggett. 2008. 192pp. 6.5"x8". Hardcover, concealed spiral.
An inexpensive, but good first book. Contains clear step-by-step instructions for making a variety of books, pamphlets, albums, journals, and diaries. This is basically a reprint of Doggett's Bookworks (1998, out-of-print), but in a different format. Though the book is considerably smaller, the how-to illustrations are only slightly smaller.
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B3132. Collaborative Art Journals / Ludwig
Collaborative Art Journals and Shared Visions in Mixed Media by L.K. Ludwig. 2009. 144pp. 8.8"x11". Paperback $24.99. JNB Price $19.99
Along with plenty of visual inspiration, this book covers various organizational structures for collaborative art projects, offers instructions and tips for organizing such ventures, and includes interviews with organizers and participants of collaborative projects. Also covers a healthy smattering of techniques, including how to create books that can be added to as you travel and how to devise various binding structures for different paper projects.
250 photos and illustrations.
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