dvc-gbw fall 2012 newsletter

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Fall 2012

The Publication of the Delaware Valley Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers

Pressing Matter

Message froM oUr president

News from Near and Far

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hope you enjoy this rather lengthy newsletter. Tere is so much going on! I am

very excited about the collaborative book project and am really pleased that so

many of our members are participating. On November 3

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, we hosted a gath-ering to exchange our editions and collate them so that the next phase can begin:

binding them into a book. Te editions were wonderful! You can see them all on our

website: www.dvc-gbw.org.

As members nish bind-

ing their books, we will

post them on the website.

In January, we will col-

lect all the books and send

them to Massachusetts for

an exhibition at the CabotScience Library at Harvard

University. Te dates for the

exhibition are January 24 to

May 19, 2013. We also plan

to show them locally in the

Library at the Philadelphia

Museum of Art.

In October, I went to Salt Lake City for the Standards of Excellence Seminar. It

was an excellent conference, as always. I always look forward to the presentations,

and believe it or not, I also enjoy attending the board meetings as your chapter rep-

resentative!

Recently, we held a potluck dinner at Alice Austins house. What a great turnout!

Te food was really good. I have always noticed that bookbinders love to eat well.

Which made me think: we should do that more often. So, we are planning to have

another potluck in May or June.Jennifer Rosner

Chapter Chair

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Traditional papermaking in Korea

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6 questionsPage 6

Workshop reviewPage 7

DVC-GBW ExhibitsPage 8

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Page 2 Delaware Valley Guild of Bookworkers pressing Matters Fall 2012

By Denise Carbone

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Asummer a trip to Seoul, South Korea was organized by Susan Viguers,

director of the MFA Book Arts Program from the University of the Arts.Tis amazing whirlwind of a trip took us to the Codex InternationalBook Arts Fair in Seoul, gallery shows at Hongik University and 175 Gallery,part of the Korean University of Arts, and a trip way south to the village of Ga-pyeong.

For me, the highlight of this amazing trip was a visit with Jang Yong Hoonof Jang Ji Bang, a 3rd- and 4th-generation family-run paper mill in Gapyeong,Korea.

Hoon and his family showed us how they make Hanji Paper, Koreas intan-

Korean Paper-making TraditionsHanji paper-making studio in South Korea visited by University of the Arts group

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gible cultural property no. 117.Korean paper, orhanji, is the name of traditional handmade paper made from

the inner bark of the paper mulberry, known in Korean as dak, a native tree that

grows well on rocky mountainsides. The formation aid necessary to making

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hot. This substance helps suspend the bers in the vat.

The methods for making hanji are similar to those used

in Japanese papermaking to make washipaper, but differ

in sheet formation technique.Hanji is made by laminat-

ing sheets using the webalmethod, which allows formulti-directional grain and calendaring, andDochim, the

method of pounding nished sheets to compact bers in

order to lessen ink bleed.

Below are some photos by Erin Paulson of the Hoonfamilys paper studio.

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For more information about the tradition of Korean paper and paper art, go to Aimee Lees website,http://aimeelee.net/paper/hanjib/. Aimee studied with masters at Jang Ji Bang paper mill.

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6 QuestionsJon Sweitzer-Lamme will be spending

the fall semester in Denmark, so his workspaceis packed up in boxes. He is one our newest andyoungest members

1 How long have you been a member of the GBW?I joined this January after an internship at theLibrary Company of Philadelphia; I joined pretty muchas soon as I learned that it existed.

2 Where are you from originally?Durham, North Carolina.

3When did you realize you wanted to learn bookbind-

ing?I made an artist s book in high school (deconstructinga science book from the 1920s), and I couldnt gure outhow to put together the pages. Ive been trying to learnever since..

4 What is your favorite book structure these days?Ive been working with Bruce Bumbarger at theHaverford College Bindery, and Ive been really enjoyinggetting into the details of hand hollow-back binding--Itaught myself half-leather binding for a couple journals,and that was a lot of fun.

5 What are you working on right now?Im sort of between projects at the moment, be-cause Im heading to Denmark for a semester, but mynotebook is lling with ideas for when I return (when mysupplies come out of storage).

6 Tell us something about yourself that might surprise us.For a Chemistry of Art class in the spring, I taughtmyself to make parchment from a hunk of pigskin andpig fat. After 3 weeks of soaking, and quite a bit of scrap-ing, it turned out well enough to use as a soft book cover.

Thomas Parker Williams is not exactly a

longtime member, but he is an active one. Below are hisanswers to the Six Questions:

1 How long have you been a member of the GBW?Since 2009, I found out about the Guild when I had atable at Hybrid Book.

2 Where are you from originally?I grew up in South Jersey but have lived in Philadelphiasince 1990

3 When did you realize you wanted to learn bookbinding?I had been painting for a number of years and had beenaware of artist books. I tried to make a few simple books

around 1994 but did not really start until 1998 when I wasworking on a painting series about re. I made some uniquebooks and my rst real printed edition. I continued to makebooks, some related to the painting I was doing, until 2009

when I stopped painting to focus on books exclusively.

4 What is your favorite book structure these days?I dont have a favorite. Inventing structures and trying tomake them work is part of the fun.

5 What are you working on right now?I am working on two collaborations with my wife MaryAgnes who does pinhole photography, One is a book about

the Manayunk Bridge that will be a pop-up.

6 Tell us something about yourself that might surprise us.I had been trained in instrumental music in my youngerdays and had been away from it for a long time. When I was

working on abstract paintings that were processed based I readan article about the musical composition method known as12 tone row. I thought of using this process to make visual artand when showing a book to a dealer in New York she said tome people will want to hear what this work sounds like. Tatled me back to making music again and including music CDs

with some of my books. Some of this work can be seen andheard on my websitewww.thomasparkerwilliams.com. n

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Barbara Mauriello loves boxes,and shared her enthusiasm withmembers of the Delaware Valley

Chapter for a weekend of box making.We made two boxes,A Box as Stage

Setand a Box with Flip-Top Lid andCompartments.

Any box is a combination of tray and

case. First measure for the case, buildit, and then measure for the tray. Weworked on both boxes at the same timeduring the weekend, going back andforth, so that we could wait for one partto dry.

Barbara had all the board cut to sizeso that we could focus on constructiontechniques. She showed us how she cutsa board for accuracy and how she makescuts in the covering material.

Barbara is very organized, handed outgood notes, and added valuable tips and tricks to the learning process. In fact,perhaps that is what I liked best about the class. She started by discussing glueand paste. She uses three kinds; methyl cellulose, rice paste and PVA. Te type ofpaste is selected based on the paper used to cover the box. For a ne thin paperyou would use paste. For good quality heavier papers, you would use PVA mixedwith methyl cellulose. Te percent of your mix depends on how wet you want theglue.

For paste, she likes rice starch because of its silkiness. She cooks as much asshe needs for the day and does not store it in the fridge because it gets watery.

Her approach to making paste is one of the experienced cook - when it looksgood its done cooking.For those who need a recipe, use one cup water to 2 -3 tablespoons of starch.

Dissolve the starch in cold water and then cook. It is done when translucent andthick. ransfer to a cool container and pour cold water on top. Do not cover witha tight lid.

At the end of the workshop, we all left happy with our two almost-nishedboxes and our gems of new understanding of techniques and materials.n

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It was a pleasure to have our Delaware Val-ley Chapter of the Guild of Book Workers exhibitat Abecedarian Gallery in Denver in September.When Alicia invited our Chapter I was immediatelyinterested. She does a great job promoting book art-ists and I knew this would be an opportunity for ourmembers to not only exhibit but also to sell books.Add a beautiful catalog to that list and it gets evenbetter! Te books exhibited display the wide inter-ests and talents of our membership. We are happy toshare with the Denver community and the Abece-

darian Gallery web followers. Tank you Alicia!More info atwww.abecedariangallery.com.

Member news

DVC members Alice Austin and Jon Snyder wereinvited to be artists-in-residence in Gmunden, Aus-tria for the month of September, 2012. Alice taughtbook arts and paste paper workshops at Arthaus4,a collective gallery in Gmunden, and collaboratedwith the Arthaus4 members in a paper-makingworkshop at the Hobl & Sohn hand papermakingworkshop in nearby Laarkirchen. Te hand-madepaper was used for several projects that were exhib-ited at the Arthaus4 gallery in late September. Jonmade videos of the workshops and paper makingprocess, which will be available online shortly atAlices web site,www.amaustin.com.

Te couple are the rst international artists spon-sored by the town Gmunden and by Arthaus4. Moreinfo atwww.arthaus4.com.

Book review1,000 Artists Books, Exploring the Book as ArtBy Sandra Salamony and Peter and Donna

TomasQuarry Books, 2012Tis lovely book was released in May and many of

our members have books included. Te images lookgood and a huge variety of book works are repre-sented. A great buy! n

Alice AustinExhibits Chair

Multifarious Members Mile HighBooks by Members of the GBW-DVC exhibited in Denver, Sept., 2012

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