Thursday, December 23, 2010
Exposed Tape Binding
Below is the instructional video. You can also go to the original website for a VERY in depth description on making this book. Photo is courtesy of Molly Brooks of 40 Winks.
K. Lundgreen
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
PAPER MAKING
Supplies:
Vat
Screen
Deckle
Sponge
Felt
Pulp
Mix up your paper pulp.. you can use old junk mail and a blender.. the nicer your pulp the nicer your paper will be.
Put your screen and your deckle into your vat with the pulp.
Get an even layer of pulp on your screen.
Remove your screen and take off the deckle
Flip your paper over onto the felt and sop out extra water with the sponge
Take your paper off the felt and place in a drying rack.
Thank you.
Here are two video's I found helpful in understanding the basic process of paper making.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZUPCzL44Gg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJp8-SHqIZs&feature=related
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
MONSTER BOOK
Origami Book Video Replacement
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Monster Book 3:15 Book Arts!!
Friday, November 19, 2010
Angela Stone and the 7-Layered Chinese Star Book!!!
Coat Hanger Book
Jen Wilkes Hemp Leaf Binding
Step 1: Push the needle up through the spine through the pages near the back of the book and through the inner right hole in the row farther from the spine. Loop the needle and thread around the spine and back to the inner right hole. Leave a small tail inside the book to be used later to tie the knot.
Step 2: Push the needle up through the inner right hole in the row farther from the spine and down through the inner left hole in the same row.
Step 3: Loop the needle and thread around the spine and back down through the inner left hole.
Step 4: Push the needle up through the outer left hole in the row farther from the spine. Loop the needle and thread around the spine and back up through the outer left hole.
Step 5: Loop the needle and thread around the bottom of the book and back up through the outer left hole.
Step 6: Push the needle down through the left hole in the row closest to the spine.
Step 7: Loop the needle and thread around the spine and back down through the left hole.
Step 8: Loop the needle and thread around the bottom of the book and back down through the left hole.
Step 9: Push the needle up through the outer left hole in the row farther from the spine and down through the inner left hole in the same row.
Step 10: Push the needle up through the inner right hole in the row farther from the spine and down through the outer right hole.
Step 11: Loop the needle and thread around the spine and back down through the outer right hole.
Step 12: Loop the needle and thread around the top of the book and back down through the outer right hole.
Step 13: Push the needle up through the right hole in the row closer to the spine.
Step 14: Loop the needle and thread around the spine and back up through the right hole. Then, loop the needle and thread around the top of the book and back down through the right hole.
Step 15: Push the needle down through the outer right hole in the row farther from the spine and up through the inner right hole in the same row.
Step 16: Push the needle up through the inner right hole in the row farther from the spine and down through the middle right hole in the row closer to the spine.
Step 17: Loop the needle and thread around the spine and back down through the middle right hole.
Step 18: Push the needle up through the outer right hole in the row farther from the spine and down through the middle right hole in the row closer to the spine.
Step 19: Push the needle up through the inner right hole in the row farthest from the spine and down through the center hole in the row closer to the spine.
Step 20: Loop the needle and thread around the spine and back down through the center hole.
Step 21: Push the needle up through the inner left hole in the row farther from the spine and down through the middle left hole in the row closer to the spine.
Step 22: Loop the needle and thread around the spine and back down through the middle left hole.
Step 23: Push the needle up through the outer left hole in the row farther from the spine and down through the middle left hole in the row closer to the spine.
Step 24: Push the needle up through the inner left hole in the row farther from the spine and down through the center hole in the row closer to the spine. Then, push the needle up through the inner right hole in the row farther from the spine.
Step 25: Use the needle to tie a knot with the remaining thread and the tail left earlier. Pull the knot into the book through the inner right hole and trim off excess thread.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Book Arts 11 o'clock Collaborative Project
Accordion Book-Amy Tidwell
The Orihon: This is the structure that I am going to show, and some history about it.
Orihon
The orihon structure was developed during the Heian period (794–1185), and was traditionally used for Buddhist sutras. It is thought that if an orihon book inscribed with Buddhist sutras is 'cascaded' from hand-to-hand, the draught created by the falling pages has healing properties if directed to the affected part of the sufferer's body. In Japanese Buddhist monasteries it is still sometimes possible to receive this treatment.
The orihon structure developed out of the scroll simply by folding the scroll into an accordion-fold and pasting it between covers. In this form it was both easier to access and to store and, although not yet truly a 'book-shaped' book this was the vital step in its development. Structure The basic orihon book consists simply of an accordion-folded sheet of paper bound within soft or hard covers. The paper can be a single long strip, or several smaller strips pasted together. Traditionally, smaller sheets would be pasted into a long strip with little regard paid to where the joins fell; as the style developed, however, the joins were usually planned to fall at the page folds.
If the flaps all fall at the same (usually fore-) edge, the book will have greater thickness one side than the other; for this reason if there are to be a great number of joins they are sometimes placed at the back- and fore-edges alternately, even though the back-edge joins are more visible than the fore-edge joins. If an even number of pages is used, the book will have a definite 'front' and 'back'; if an odd number of pages is used, the concepts of 'frontness' and 'backness' may be more equivocal – either doubling the capacity of the book, or enabling a double book not dissimilar to the Western dos-à-dos structure.
There may be no endpapers; the main pages may be attached to the covers by means of a narrow tab which is overlaid with a single sheet of decorative paper; or an extra page-pair of a decorative paper may be used.
Applications
A common use in the West is in children's books; room friezes are often packaged orihon-fashion, and some board books are constructed in orihon form, occasionally with integral covers (see Children's Board Book, right). The form is also frequently used in advertising leaflets which, although consisting of no more than a single sheet of folded paper, might properly be considered orihon books (seeAdvertising Leaflet, right).
The book artist may find the orihon indispensable for two or three of its characteristics:
• while it is possible to read each page or pair of pages individually, it is also possible to view all the pages at once, or in non-contiguous groups.
This is a very useful attribute in the case of panoramic pictures, time-line diagrams, and some records of performance and conceptual art, for example, Horizon to Horizon and Alps Horizon by Hamish Fulton; the all-at-one-view property is exploited in various books by Sarah Jackson. In England orihon-form maps, showing the route between only two towns – stylised but showing landmarks and road junctions – were known as 'stagecoach maps'. (See The Northern Line, flat, right,for a modern equivalent of the stagecoach map by the author.)
• because of their compound action, orihon books can be very useful as scrapbooks. Guarding of the pages is unnecessary – however thick the scraps in the book, so long as they are not too close to the folds, the book will simply expand uniformly (see Scrapbook, right).
• Sometimes the orihon is used for no apparent reason other than that it is attractive and unusual. Perhaps it is for no deeper reason than this that it is used for such books as Tony Hayward's Indian Sandwich series, 1994, right.
• When opened, the orihon book can assume a very sculptural form (see The Northern Line, fanned, right).
((http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~dawe5/bookbinding_pages/BB_accordion2.html))
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
The amazing children's board book- Emily Haralson
Step 1: cut SIX 5in x 5 in boards out of chip board (or cereal boxes) Cut TWO 5x5 boards out of book board.
Step 2: write and illustrate a simple children's book on five 6 x 6 papers. Make sure to mark where the pages will meat the board
Step 3: Glue papers onto chipboard
Step 4: Glue boards together back to back. If you use cereal boxes sand paper them first so that they will stick when glued.The two end boards will be left.
Step 5: Curve edges on text block and book boards.
Step 6: Measure width of text block at the spine. cut out a spine then glue it to book cloth. Glue down the book boards leaving 1/8 of an inch between it and the spine.
Step 7: Glue down paper on the book board from where the book cloth leaves off.
step 8: Glue down chip board end boards down to the book board.
Step 9: Read to someone you love. Enjoy your children's book board.
Paper Sack book
After that you will fold the paper sacks in half and mix up the ends as you put it together so that you have a pocket every other page.
then you decide what type of a book you want to make with it and start putting it together.this is with out something in the pockets
The Account Book (Japanese Binding)