I made this book in collaboration with a friend of mine. It is pretty much the only book I've made in collaboration with anyone. It's a pretty simple Japanese stab style binding. Done with black cotton crocheting thread. The stations were bored with a dremel. The fore edge of each page is the folded edge of the sheet of paper. at the time of printing I had a ancient bubble jet. I was working some place where once a week I had unfettered access to the photocopy machine... I made zines then too. I printed the text, took it to work, copied the pages onto my really nice paper took them home and printed by hand all the little block prints then collated and folded every book, clamped and drilled holes then stitched it all up. The whole process took a long long time. My friend and I were mailing back and forth a notebook with the images and text, until we had everything agreed upon, then I typed it all up and emailed it to my friend, she tweaked the text, then I made it fit onto the page.
I've got to say that this was a great project, I love how the final product came out. I think we made a total of 100 books. The cost was a lot though. I was really poor at the time of us making this as was my friend, I want to say that we spent about $50 getting this thing going and never made any money on it. I still have a stack of the books. I sold a few on eBay and my friend had the other half of them and I've still got a stack of them.
I still thing that they are really cool.
Very cool. I should totally do something like that with my poems! :)
Posted by: Mandy | January 02, 2008 at 02:56 PM
Looking back, if I had the knowledge that I have now, as well as the tools in terms of computer equipment this would have taken much less time. It was a lot of fun.
Posted by: LessHerger | January 02, 2008 at 09:22 PM