Required Materials:
Pencil: Hard (HB-2B) or mechanical pencil
Bone Folder: I prefer a 6-7” folder that has one pointed and one rounded end. don’t buy the Teflon ones--they bend.
Awl: It really helps to have an awl or a heavy needle in a handle to punch holes in your signatures.
Erasers: Magic Rub (white)
Brushes: Small, cheap glue brush
Ruler: Clear ruler with horizontal and vertical measurements, one side beveled the other side edged in metal
Xacto Knife- #11 with extra blades. You will need extra blades. Olfa snap-off blades / #10 X-Acto knife + blades
A circle cutter:Yellow plastic
Glue brush: 3/4" stiff bristle flat brush, these can usually be bought in packs if you want to buy them with a classmate
PVA: bookbinding glue
Newsprint pad: 12x18-18x24 (can share 2 students to a pad)
Self-healing cutting mat
Paper:
Acid free paper. You can use copier paper, drawing paper, even heavyweight watercolor papers for certain book structures. Start gathering what you have at home. Papers that fold without cracking are best.
Decorative papers for covers. Don’t spend a lot of money on fancy papers until you get the book structures under your belt. Colored paper, charcoal paper, scrap booking papers, & hand-made papers work well.
Fabric. If you have something at home, that’s fine.
Optional Materials:
Hole punches
12” to 18” ruled straight edge (ones with cork on the back are nice) for use at home
Eyelet tools, rivet tools, metal letter stamps
Small craft hammer
Copper wire
Needle nose pliers
Linen Thread
Sewing Needles
Book Cloth
Clear spray acrylic
Book board (davey board)
Muslin
1/2” Linen tape
Beeswax
Large binder clip(s) or
Weight (brick or book)
Scissors (optional)
Any other kind of tape or texture
12” Plastic Triangle
Texts:
Will be a small reader, which will be accompanied by a few handouts throughout the semester. Below are a series of text, which I am considering
“Images as the Text: Pictographs and Pictographic Logic” by Johanna Drucker and Jerome McGann
"The New Art of Making Books" Manifesto by Ulises Carrion
Niffenegger, Audrey. “What does it mean to make a book?” The Book as Art, pg 12-13. Krystyna Wasserman. Princeton Architectural Press (New York): 2007.
(A conversational text about the possibilities of bookmaking: gain power over an object, create a physical form for ideas, contend with beauty, etc…)
Drucker, Johanna. “Intimate Authority,” The Book as Art, Pg 14-17. Krystyna Wasserman. Princeton Architectural Press (New York): 2007.
(An essay about the history of women in the book arts)
"Book Art" by Richard Kostelanetz
"The Artist's Book Goes Public" by Lucy R. Lippard
The Pillow Book video directed by Peter Greenaway
Selections from YO! by Julia Alvarez (character development and perspective)
Selections from Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (sources and perspective)
Selections from Vatel by Roland Joffé
Required Materials and Texts
