INTRO TO BOOKBINDING (final class)

Minnesota Center for Book Arts

week four

in our final class, we cased in our hard cover books. after the boards were cut we measured the distance between the spine piece and the cover boards in order to glue them into the book cloth.

then we covered our boards with paper and fitted the text blocks inside. applying glue to the endpapers, we closed the cover briefly and opened it again to burnish the endpapers to the inside covers.

at the end of class, we exchanged single-sheet books and built a slipcase for them.

INTRO TO BOOKBINDING

Minnesota Center for Book Arts

week three

this is the text block we prepared for our hard cover or case bound book. to do this we folded paper into signatures, practiced the french twist with kettle stitch on a sewing card, punched holes in our signatures, and sewed the signatures together. then we glued the spine and covered it with a mull and japanese paper.

INTRO TO BOOKBINDING

Minnesota Center for Book Arts

week two

long stitch binding with link stitch

INTRO TO BOOKBINDING

Minnesota Center for Book Arts

week one

the first night we did a few books that require little skill and experience, but have a lot of variations. although they are simple, with the right materials they can be elegant.

single-sheet books

variations on the accordion structure

three- and five- holed pamphlet stitch

and double pamphlet stitch w/ map fold

Benedictine Values broadside for St. Ben's / St. John's

This fall, I made a broadside of the Benedictine Values for the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University. These broadsides were sent out to incoming students with their acceptance letters. I made the paper from abaca fibers with inclusions of Big Bluestem grasses from the Arboretum at St. John's and printed the broadsides in the Book Arts Studio at St. Ben's.

Photographs by Paul Middlestaedt

Lessons & Carols

Each year, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts publishes a collaborative book featuring Minnesota artists and writers. Lessons & Carols is Winter Book 2012. Patricia Kirkpatrick edited the moving and diverse poems and the male vocal ensemble, Cantus, built their holiday concerts in collaboration with the book. Mary Hark made the paper, Jana Pullman made the deluxe cases, and I made the images. The book was designed and printed by Sara Parr and Erin Maurelli at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

http://www.mnbookarts.org/theshop/winterbook.html

this spring i printed a broadside as a cover image for a small literary publication, 111O. it was released last month and it features some wonderful poems.