Wednesday, 17 October 2018

Further Research : Making Handmade Books - Alisa Golden

Paper Selection 

Lightweight papers
Papers in this group fold, wrinkle and tear easily. They are often somewhat translucent e.g. copy paper, newsprint and origami paper.

Medium-weight papers
These can be folded repeatedly and are opaque. A sheet of this paper will not tear easily if a hole is cut in it. 

Heavy weight papers
Hold up well to paint and gesso repeated erasures e.g. printmaking paper

Mock ups
Creating a mock up of your book using scratch paper is ok. You can number pages, with any text you have write in it. You can then analyse section breaks. A mock up can help establish the best format of a book. 

Printing 
Printing or copying text or images onto paper may be done by letterpress, computer, rubber stamps, hand writing, or by using cut-up techniques. For example Letterpress printing is a relief-printing process that presses wood or metal type into the page; computer generated type sits on the surface of the paper etc.

Binding examples to experiment with:


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