Photo by: Ashley Twigg

Saturday, November 5 & 12, 10 AM to 2PM  each day.
Instructor: Josef Berry
Cost: Members $150, Non-members $175.(includes supplies)
Class limited to 12. Minimum 5.

We’re trying it again! This two day workshop will introduce students to the joyful practice of linoleum cut printmaking!
We will each design “alphabeasties” for a handful of letters of the alphabet. Then we will compose an alphabet poster from our creations and print an edition!
Each participant will leave with posters to share.
This class is appropriate for all ages and no artistic background is necessary.

(One to two scholarships available. Write 200 words on how this class would help you spread the love of printmaking and submit to VABC Scholarship Committee.)

Contact kmcfadden@virginia.edu to enroll.

Workshop August 13, 2011

Books with folded fore-edges usually emphasize images rather than text.  Accordion books fit this category but the most common example is the album.

Making a book with folded fore-edges limits the types of bindings that can be used.  For example, the pages cannot be put into signatures and sewn.  The most common bindings are stab binding and post/clasp binding, with soft or hard covers or wrappers.

These instructions are for making an album-style book with folded fore-edges, approximate size 5-1/2”h x 4-1/4” w.  Making the pages is very simple—the decisions about what to do with the pages and how to bind them require several decisions that will determine the final structure of the book.

An album is used to display images, so planning an album begins with deciding on the images and then designing the book around them.

MAKING ALBUM PAGES

Cut sheets of 8-1/2”x11” card stock in half to create two pieces, each 5-1/2” h x 8-1/2” w.  Each piece becomes a page.

Fold each piece in half to create a folded page that is 5-1/2”h x 4-1/4”

Stack the pages with fold to the right (open side to the left).  Mark on each page the area to be cut out (the “window” that will frame the image).  In deciding where to place the cutouts, be sure to allow for the binding edge on the left (the open side).  Cut out the cut-out.

Note:  It is useful to use scrap paper to decide on the size and placement of the cut-out/window.  Once you have created a final paper model, it can be used as a template for marking the cut-outs on each page.

Decide whether you will insert your images before binding or after.

If before, insert image into each page and seal, preferably by gluing the pieces to the pages; then glue each folded page together and dry under weights.

If after, glue each folded page together and dry under weights.

Stack the pages together, with cut-outs facing up, the folds on the right (and open ends on the left).  Align by the folded edge; trim the open ends if necessary.

COVER AND BINDING

Cut cover paper as needed for the bound cover or wrapper.

If making hard covers for stab binding, cut cover board approximately 1/8”inch larger on all sides except the spine edge.  Cut cover paper 1” wider than board on all sides.  Glue paper to boards, mitering corners.  Cut and glue end papers to inside of covers.

If using soft, paper covers, decide whether to include flaps.  Cut covers 1/16-1/8” larger on all sides, plus flaps, if used.

See notes below about types of covers and wrappers.

Punch holes as needed for the type of cover.  Create a jig to mark the holes, if the pattern of holes is complex (for stab binding, for example).

See notes below about binding (sewing or fasteners).

Assemble the finished book.  If images are added as the final step, add them to the book.

IDEAS FOR COVERS, HOLES, AND FASTENERS

covers or wrappers

Spine exposed:  stab binding with hard or soft covers

board covers with exposed fasteners (screw posts)

Spine covered:  paper cover with flaps

paper cover with concealed fasteners (sewing; brads; screw posts)

holes

punched with awl – for sewing with binder’s thread or other thin fiber

punched with screw punch – different sizes of holes are possible; used for sewing,

fasteners, or screw posts

punched with office hole punch – used for fastening with brads or sewing with large cord

fasteners

thread or other fibers

cord or ribbons (various widths)

brads

2-hole office fasteners

screw posts

Handout prepared by Addeane Caelleigh (asc8f@virginia.edu) for the Bookmaking Group at the Virginia Arts of the Book Center, Charlottesville, Virginia, August 2011.

THIS IS AN OLD ARCHIVED AUCTION PAGE. For the latest at the VABC, go to VirginiaBookArts.org
Looking for a singular gift for yourself or a friend this holiday season? Perhaps a handmade book, print, etching, or other piece of art made by local printers? Look no further! The Virginia Arts of the Book Center, a program of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, holds its annual Raucous Auction on Friday, November 12th from 5:30-8pm in our new space under the ArtBox!

Come bid on both silent auction items and raucous auction items throughout the evening while enjoying food and drink and friends. We’ll also be unveiling the Reverse Auction project “YOUR WORDS HERE”: We’ll help you print TEN posters with your words, phrase, quote, ad, or otherwise unpublicized notion that the world is missing right now. The Auction will be held at our new home ”beneath the Art Box” in Ivy Square, 2125 Ivy Road, Suite 5. Come one, come all, and get RAUCOUS!

I’m putting together a class/workshop in the fall.

I’m trying to gage interest and find convenient times/dates.

Please contact me if you’d like to participate.

Garrett