Re: [BKARTS] Books with shaped textblock edges

[Flick GC <flick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Judith,

Thanks for the tip, but most of the books I'm seeing with that term  
are designed to be viewed with the text block closed, eg <http://www.designswan.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/Photo/bookCarving/1.jpg 
> and Brian Dettmer's fabulous Book Autopsies, or at least viewed as  
a solid block.

I can see how to make those, because you can just clamp the textblock  
into a solid unit and the carve into it, but I'm not sure that that's  
how the ones designed to be viewed with the pages fanned out are made.  
Or are they? Do you mean that a very squashed image carved into the  
foredge of the closed textblock, so that when it's fanned out the  
proportions are right?

Thanks!

Flick



On 9 Jul 2009, at 13:49, Judith Stadler wrote:

> Hi, Flick:
> If you do a google search using the terms: book carving" you will  
> find many resources.
> Also, I've seen examples in altered book books. The process seems  
> mostly described where you take an exisiting book and alter it by  
> cutting the edge into a shape with a band or jig saw . I would  
> imagine you could take a text block you have made yourself and cut  
> it the same way. Then you could make the cover in any way you wish  
> including cutting its edges to match the shapes of the first and  
> last pages of your text block.
> Anyway, that is the simplest form of carved book I have seen (and is  
> like the example in the photo you cite. There are many more  
> complicated examples of book carving I saw in the results of the  
> google search.
> Hope this helps. I would love to see what you come up with.
> Judith in NYC
> > Date:    Wed, 8 Jul 2009 17:02:14 +0100
> > From:    Flick GC <flick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Books with shaped textblock edges
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I come with a rather vague request, as my Google skills have failed  
> > me!
> >
> > Although the only illustration I can find is <http://blog.makezine.com/galanin.jpg
> > > , I've seen a number of images of books that are designed to be
> > shown open, with the pages fanned out, and which then produce a
> > 'relief carving' when so displayed.
> >
> > (Just to clarify, it's not the ones where the pages have been folded
> > into different shapes, rather than cut to size -
> > <http://www.grand-illusions.com/images/articles/articles/folded_page_art/mainimage.jpg
> > >
> > <http://www.museumryswyk.nl/hpb2006/img/l_moroni.jpg>
> > - or the ones where the pages have all been cut to the same size -
> > <http://ragandbone.com/bloggerimages2008/2009/02_17_laura/02.jpg>
> > - but the ones where each page is cut differently that I mean, and
> > failing to find images of.)
> >
> > Can anyone describe to me the production process? In particular, is
> > each page cut individually before sewing, after the production of  
> > lots
> > of mockups, or is there a knack to getting that sort of smooth shape
> > in some other way, using an already-bound volume?
> >
> > I'd like to produce something where the fanned edges have a short  
> > word
> > on them, but I'm unsure how to start!
> >
> > Thanks for any pointers you can provide,
> >
> > Flick
>
> Judy
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