Archive for the 'Artist's book' Category

The Best Lesson

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

From a recent post at Cathy Miranker’s blog, Bookmaking for Kids:
After we do the folds for the first time, I often have everyone ball up their books and toss them into recycling. When we do it a second time, I pass around my big, red stamps and let the kids label their efforts with a [...]

Counterintuitive

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

In the midst of the gloomiest grayest month ever, I have felt the sparkle of inspiration. I met with a group of avid book artists this weekend and we made a trial version of Claire Van Vliet’s Sing Weaving structure. If you’ve tried to make it, you know it’s — um — not obvious to [...]

Link Stitch

Friday, October 17th, 2008

I’ve been mulling over making an edition of books to enjoy the intense improvement that comes with concerted practice. As is my wont, I have inveigled a group of friends to join me in this experience. We are considering using a Link Stitch binding. Here’s a link to a PDF of the long-and-link-stitch instructions we’re [...]

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