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Shape, Scrape and Paint: Altering Surfaces
June 4th through 7th
Wednesday through Saturday, 9:00-5:00

For as long as there have been books, bookmakers have applied distinctive,
expressive designs to the covers of their creations. This two-part workshop
explores historic decorative techniques in conjunction with modern
possibilities: gold and blind tooling alongside applications of plastics,
wood veneers, metals and other surface alterations. Get ready to sand,
shape, scrape, paint, draw, emboss, deboss, and craft the tools required for
the execution of these techniques. Design and produce several plaquettes for
use as examples in future book projects. Participants work primarily on
leather surfaces, so experience in gold tooling and leather binding is
helpful but not necessary.

Celebrated book artist Don Glaister lives and works on Vashon Island,
Washington. Don incorporates unexpected materials, visual humor, and
spontaneous expression in book forms structured around classical, European,
binding traditions. His recent work includes two editions of artists’ books,
“Brooklyn Bridge: A Love Song” and “Angelique and the Pearl
Necklace”. Partial funding provided by the Utah Arts Council.

Instructor: Don Glaister, Washington
Place: Book Arts Program at the J. Willard Marriott Library, University of
Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Workshop fee: $300; Materials fee: $55

The Summer 2008 North Bennet Street School Workshop catalog is available on our website. I’m also attaching a pdf of the catalog. We have many exciting workshops coming up - British pop-up artist extraordinaire Paul Johnson is giving a free lecture and offering two workshops in July, and we’ve got Dan Kelm coming from Western Mass to lead a Chemistry for Binders class, as well as Jeff Peachey with an
18th Century French Bindings class, Jim Reid-Cunningham on Vellum Stiffboard Binding, our very own Jeff Altepeter with an Intro to Leather Paring and Cloth Case, Part II, and so much more, including marbling with Chena River Marblers, calligraphy, girdle books, and Mark Andersson making a triumphant return to the East coast to lead a leaf casting symposium and gold tooling workshop. Please check out our ever-expanding (and so many new) offerings, and call or email with any questions. We look forward to seeing many of you
here in Boston.

Thank you,
Jourdan Abel, Workshop Director

North Bennet Street School
39 North Bennet Street
Boston, MA 02113

(617) 227-0155 X 102

workshop@nbss.org
www.nbss.org

The Bonefolder – Volume 4, No. 2, Spring 2008

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While the Bonefolder will remain available online, we recommend saving to your hard disk, or printing out, to facilitate reading.

Table of contents:

Women and Books – Muriel Prince
Collaborating with the Dead – Maureen Cummins
The Codex Foundation, an interview of Peter Rutledge Koch
Cairo in August – Julia Miller and Pamela Spitzmueller
A New Variation on Board Slotting – Angela M. Andres
The Twined Binding – Roberta Lavadour
Variation on the Split Board Binding – Don Rash
Board Book Adhesive Binding – Leigh Craven
Book Review of Jadwiga Jarvis’ The Wayzgoose Affair – Carolynne Skinner
Book Review of Mirjam Foot’s Bookbinders at Work – Pamela Barrios
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Submission Guidelines
2008 Bind-O-Rama Guidelines

Supporters of this issue are:
American Academy of Bookbinding
The Codex Foundation
Harmatan Leather Company
J. Hewit & Sons, Ltd: Suppliers of all your bookbinding needs.
Richard Minsky
School for Formal Bookbinding
The Women’s Studio Workshop

The Bonefolder (online) ISSN 1555-6565

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Call for Entries: Bonefolder Bind-O-Rama 2008

Initiated in 2004, the Bonefolder’s Bind-O-Rama challenge and online exhibition have become an annual event. The 2008 event will feature works exhibiting ANY of the structures described in the past 8 issues of the Bonefolder. This information along with links to the issues is also available at http://www.philobiblon.com/bindorama08/index.html.

Techniques include:
Vol. 1, no. 1: The springback; drum leaf binding
(for springback instructions see the German or English versions)
Vol .1, no. 2: Tunnel book; edelpappband/millimeter binding
Vol. 2, no. 1: Flagbook; molded paper spine
Vol. 2, no. 2: Limp vellum binding
Vol. 4, no. 2: Twined binding; split board variation; board book adhesive binding

Entry & Submission Information:
Entrants are invited to enter up to two (2) works displaying any of the techniques described in these past issues. Even though this is an online only exhibition works should be completed to the highest standards of quality, including photography. The Bonefolder will jury entries to fit the available space, and reserves the right to reject those not meeting standards of image quality.

Your Entry Must Include:
Two digital images (Minimum 640 x 480 pixels @ 72dpi, jpg file format) of your book:
Images must show:
· Full view of both covers and spine.
· A detail to show text and/or imagery on another surface of the book

Files should be named as binder’s name-1.jpg… (e.g. verheyen-1.jpg, verheyen-2.jpg)
Images must meet these guidelines to be accepted, and be of good quality.

A brief description including:
Binder’s Name
Location (City, Country)
Description of design (including materials and printing method)
Dimensions (Height x Width x Thickness) in CENTIMETERS
Bookbinding/Book arts educational and training background
All information must be included to be accepted

Maximum Number of Entries:
Two
Based on response, we also reserve the right to curate/jury the exhibit to fit available space.

Entry Fee:
NONE
Entry Deadline:
September 1, 2008

To Enter:
For more information, or to send images and description contact: verheyen@philobiblon.com.

Entries will be compiled into an online catalog, which will be viewable on the Book Arts Web as well as in the Bonefolder. This information along with links to the issues is also available at http://www.philobiblon.com/bindorama08/index.html.