La Ville appears and disappears.

 

My biblionautic chums and friends.

La Ville. A commission.

End papers and doublers. The ink has dreid... A few days ago and having placed an order for some spray paint with amazon some 5 days ago and still waiting, I decided to go to the old school technique of cotton wool and acrylic. The effect is the same, the lino cut appears and disappears when viewed from different angles.

Please note.... there are other studios/binderies doing stuff, spelling and grammar. Please further note, the opinion of the author may change at any moment. This is due to having an open mind of sorts.

 

THE FESTIVAL OF BOOKBINDING: LECTURES AND DEMONSTRATIONS

 

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Even more preperation for a talk and demonstration on Minimalist Tight Flat Back artist's book in Oxford early next month.

* THE FESTIVAL OF BOOKBINDING: LECTURES AND DEMONSTRATIONS *

Designer Bookbinders & the Bodleian Library proudly presents a Festival of Bookbinding on 8th & 9th July 2022. The Festival will bring together lectures, demos, practical bookbinding sessions, mini demonstrations & a trade stand to help celebrate the opening of the exhibition “A Gathering of Leaves – the 4th Designer Bookbinders International Competition 2022”.

We're featuring each of the lectures & demos available for booking over the next few days. We continue with a demonstration by Fellow Mark Cockram (@markbookartist) on Fri 8th July, 1:30 – 3:30pm, “Minimalist Flat-Tight Back Binding”.

A demonstration showing a minimalist flat-tight back binding, incorporating laminated board attachment to cloth covered boards. The demonstration includes applied mixed media, and a Drum leaf Text Block. This is an introduction to a combination artist’s book that explores traditional and contemporary aspects.

Discovering his passion for bookbinding and book arts whilst working in Paris in the late 1980s, Mark enrolled on the bookbinding course at Guildford College, graduating in 1992. Mark’s oeuvre is exploratory and diverse being exhibited internationally with work represented in public and private collections. Since being elected Fellow of Designer Bookbinders, Mark has been a regular binder for The Booker Prize.

The Lectures & Demonstrations will all take place in the lecture theatre of the Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries (@bodleianlibraries) in Oxford. Tickets will be free but we welcome any donations to help cover costs – a donation can be added whilst booking:

https://tickets.ox.ac.uk/webstore/shop/viewItems.aspx...

Tickets for the lectures can be found below the “Courses, Masterclasses & Workshops” section, in the “Lectures & Talks” section. NB. tickets are not necessarily listed chronologically, so keep scrolling down if you're unable to find the event you're looking for.

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Please note.... there are other studios/binderies doing stuff, spelling and grammar. Please further note, the opinion of the author may change at any moment. This is due to having an open mind of sorts.

Minimalist Tight Flat Back Artist's Book

My biblionautic chums and friends.

 

Preperation for a talk and demonstration on Minimalist Tight Flat Back artist's book in Oxford early next month.

Please note.... there are other studios/binderies doing stuff, spelling and grammar. Please further note, the opinion of the author may change at any moment. This is due to having an open mind of sorts.

 Creating the text block..

La Ville. Printing.

My biblionautic chums and friends.

La Ville. A commission.

The last week has seen me crouched over my bench, lino tools in hand... cutting lino for the front and back end papers and doublers for La Ville. Today is print day.... I love the smell of printing ink!

A montage taken and abstracted from the prints...

Please note.... there are other studios/binderies doing stuff, spelling and grammar. Please further note, the opinion of the author may change at any moment. This is due to having an open mind of sorts.

 

La Ville. Considered Spontaneity.

 

My biblionautic chums and friends.

La Ville. A commission.

The last few days have seen me working over the first of two lino cuts for the end papers and doublers.

Below is the first pull of half of the front end paper/doubler, just to see how it is going. Still some way to go but it should work.

A montage taken and abstracted from the prints...

The first pull.

The lino.

The design for the binding has been sort of finalised, perhaps I should say the technique I am going to be using has been finalised. The binding will come together in the application of the covering technique. A degree of considered spontaneity will be involved.

Please note.... there are other studios/binderies doing stuff, spelling and grammar. Please further note, the opinion of the author may change at any moment. This is due to having an open mind of sorts.

DIMENSION A Remboitage diptych Artist’s Book

 

My biblionautic chums and friends.

A new exhibition in Book Art SpacE.

DIMENSION

A Remboitage diptych Artist’s Book

Mark Cockram 2022.

A unique diptych of antique leather covered boards hinged with palimpsest parchment. Black on black worked prints on paper

to each of the inner boards. The images either seen or unseen depending on the angle of viewing.

BASE exhibition No 6

 

Invented by Louis Daguerre and introduced worldwide in 1839, the daguerreotype was almost completely superseded by 1860 with new, less expensive processes, such as ambrotype, that yield more readily viewable images. There has been a revival of daguerreotype since the late 20th century by a small number of photographers interested in making artistic use of early photographic processes.

The first authenticated image of Abraham Lincoln, a daguerreotype of him as U.S. Congressman-elect in 1846, attributed to Nicholas H. Shepard.

To make the image, a daguerreotypist polished a sheet of silver-plated copper to a mirror finish; treated it with fumes that made its surface light sensitive; exposed it in a camera for as long as was judged to be necessary, which could be as little as a few seconds for brightly sunlit subjects or much longer with less intense lighting; made the resulting latent image on it visible by fuming it with mercury vapor; removed its sensitivity to light by liquid chemical treatment; rinsed and dried it; and then sealed the easily marred result behind glass in a protective enclosure.

The image is on a mirror-like silver surface and will appear either positive or negative, depending on the angle at which it is viewed, how it is lit and whether a light or dark background is being reflected in the metal. The darkest areas of the image are simply bare silver; lighter areas have a microscopically fine light-scattering texture. The surface is very delicate, and even the lightest wiping can permanently scuff it. Some tarnish around the edges is normal.

Several types of antique photographs, most often ambrotypes and tintypes, but sometimes even old prints on paper, are commonly misidentified as daguerreotypes, especially if they are in the small, ornamented cases in which daguerreotypes made in the US and the UK were usually housed. The name "daguerreotype" correctly refers only to one very specific image type and medium, the product of a process that was in wide use only from the early 1840s to the late 1850s. The image needs to be viewed facing the image as when viewed at an angle the image appears to disappear.

 

Please further note.... there are other studios/binderies doing stuff, spelling and grammar. Please further note, the opinion of the author may change at any moment. This is due to having an open mind of sorts.