Resources & Links: Book Arts

Organizations

• The Guild of Book Workers was founded in 1906 to "establish and maintain a feeling of kinship and mutual interest among workers in the several hand book crafts."
• The Miniature Book Society "created to sustain an interest in all phases of miniature books."
• The Center for the Book Arts offers classes and exhibit opportunities in New York City.
• San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, California
• Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Chicago Center for Book & Paper, Chicago, Illinois
• Iowa Center for the Book, Iowa City, Iowa
• Idaho Center for the Book, Boise, Idaho
• Mills College Center for the Book, Oakland, California
• Nebraska Book Arts Center, Omaha, Nebraska
• Wisconsin Center for Book & Paper Arts, Madison, Wisconsin

Educational opportunities

There are classes available at the centers for the book arts listed under "Organizations". Additionally, classes are available in these venues:

• Garage Annex School for Book Arts, run by Daniel Kelm and Greta Sybley in Easthampton, Massachusetts, offers a wide range of workshops by excellent instructors year-round.
• BookWorks in Asheville, North Carolina, offers classes and workshop throughout the year in bookbinding, printmaking and decorativve paper.
• Pyramid Atlantic contemporary art center offers book arts classes throughout the year.
• Camp Cheerio often hosts Monique Lallier and other book arts instructors in the spring and fall each year.
• Wells Book Arts Summer Institute, at Wells College in Aurora, New York, offers two week-long sessions in each summer, with a choice of printmaking and book arts classes.

Online Tutorials

• Online bookbinding manuals scanned digitally.
• Springback book structure — an excellent tutorial by Peter Verheyen.

Manuscript Books Online

Links to manuscript books online including:

• Historical manuscript books
• Oriental manuscripts
• Miscellaneous collections
• Contemporary journals
• Contemporary book arts exhibits

Bookbinding Structures

• Bookbinding Model Collection at the University of Iowa Libraries. These models range from early codex to contemporary design and conservation bindings. Each model is shown as part of a database which identifies the model by type, binding structure, popular structure name, century of prevalance, craft context, culture context, and educational features. Impressive!
• Chinese bookbinding forms presented as part of the International Dunhuang Project.
• Japanese bookbinding structures presented by Graeme Dawes.
• Kathryn Huxtable's flexagon page — with complete instructions for making a flexagon card or book.
• Jacob's ladder structure — instructions for a wooden one.

Tunnel Books, in particular

• Roberta Lavadour's Harvest Moon, a luminous view of the moon with layers of twig branches covering the main image.
• A collaborative tunnel book made in Julie Chen's class at Pyramid Atlantic. I like it that the square confines of the outer shape are breached.
• Tara Bryan's World Without End, with the story on the accordion panels and the images in the tunnel. At roughly 3" x 3", it seems a little small for comfortable tunnel viewing, but since the story is on the outside, maybe that's not as important as it might be otherwise.
• Ed Hutchin's Grandma's Closet -- a great use of the tunnel structure.
• Peter and Donna Thomas's awesome Ukelele Tunnel Book, part of a series of uekele books. The back of a ukelele was sawed off to allow for the tunnel structure. The entire series is here. Although I found this book first, I list it last, so that the rest of the list wouldn't be disappointment!