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Message 1
From: Barbara Mason
Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 09:13:47 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Baren 25015] interesting art and math info
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This is not woodblock related but an amazingly interesting website. It is a series of 8 class lessons on math and art, specifically art as pattern from Dartmouth. I found it by accident, and bookmarked it immediately. So if you have a little time, go be astonished by knowledge and the relationship of art to mathmatics.There is even a session using block printing!
http://math.dartmouth.edu/~matc/math5.pattern/lesson1math.html
Best to all,
Barbara

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Message 2
From: todd # truffin.com
Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 16:12:43 GMT
Subject: [Baren 25016] AutoReply: interesting art and math info
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Thank you for contacting us. We are on holiday and will respond to your message after our return.

Todd and Sherry Truffin

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Message 3
From: Sharri LaPierre
Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 09:17:10 -0700
Subject: [Baren 25017] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V27 #2645 (May 9, 2004)
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Emma, you are so ahead of me in the bookbinding dept. What a wonderful
book, but I think I would need you here to show me how to do a guard
book. The bamboo skewer book is for we who have never bound a book
before - more like a kindergarten exercise. We pre-schoolers need very
simple projects with little room for aggravation and guaranteed
success! However, just in case I ever graduate from kindergarten I
have bookmarked (no pun intended) that page and may get up enough
gumption to try it one day. Thanks for sending it.

Cheers,
Sharri

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Message 4
From: todd # truffin.com
Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 16:16:13 GMT
Subject: [Baren 25018] AutoReply: Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V27 #2645 (May 9, 2004)
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Message 5
From: Emma Jane Hogbin
Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 15:54:27 -0400
Subject: [Baren 25019] Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V27 #2645 (May 9, 2004)
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Sharri LaPierre wrote:
> Emma, you are so ahead of me in the bookbinding dept. What a wonderful
> book, but I think I would need you here to show me how to do a guard
> book.

Heh. :) Here are some easier ideas...

Accordion books
http://staffcentral.brighton.ac.uk/graeme/Bookbinding%20web%20site/bookart/ba_accordion.html
http://www.makingbooks.com/accordion.html
http://www.f1-comics.com/skullduggery/images/ds_hc_conc.jpg
http://members.aol.com/bdavies666/bookgal3.htm (scroll down to the "cat"
book)

I have a love hate relationship with accordion books; however, they are
very simple to make, and open easily regardless of paper used for the
pages (unlike a "stab" binding).

Japanese Stab bindings
http://www.sff.net/people/Brook.West/bind/bindit.html
Examples:
http://www.beetlelady.com/images/knitting_journal.JPG
http://www.axs4u.net/home/nightcatbooks/Blank%20art%20journals/206_IMG.html
http://www.quietfiredesign.com/heritage3.jpg
http://www.dreamingmind.com/bookimage/b0154.jpg
http://members.aol.com/bdavies666/bookgal1.htm

The problem with the bamboo skewer book (aka piano hinge) is that you have
to have a sheet of paper that's big enough to fold in half and still hold
a print. Sooner or later you'll find a print that you won't be able to do this with.
http://www.drstamping.com/skewerbook.html
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/callibeth/piano-hinge.html (another example)
http://www.missioncreekpress.com/img17.gif (yet more examples)
http://www.2n2.org/jeannine/Books/bugjuicebig.JPG

Unless of course you're referring to one that looks more like this?
http://community.webshots.com/photo/52754105/60808663pfWfbC
http://www.kurki15.com/gallery/books/stab_bound/stickbook.html

Ok, I got a *little* carried away with the URLs. I get distracted by all
of the wonderful work that's out there and I just want to see more MORE
MORE! :)

emma

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Emma Jane Hogbin
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From: todd # truffin.com
Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 19:56:30 GMT
Subject: [Baren 25020] AutoReply: Re: New Baren Digest (HTML) V27 #2645 (May 9, 2004)
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Message 7
From: ArtfulCarol # aol.com
Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 17:05:37 EDT
Subject: [Baren 25021] Re: interesting art and math info
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Barbara Mason wrote:
http://math.dartmouth.edu/~matc/math5.pattern/lesson1math.html
Thanks for this site.

My Escheraria Print variants were adapted from some of those Escher
techniques :
http://www.rst-art.com/carolgallery.htm
Carol

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Message 8
From: todd # truffin.com
Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 21:04:30 GMT
Subject: [Baren 25022] AutoReply: Re: interesting art and math info
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Message 9
From: FurryPressII # aol.com
Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 17:47:53 EDT
Subject: [Baren 25023] Re: interesting art and math info
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carol i got to see some escher prints and drawings yesterday i would say
some of the best wood cuts and wood engravings i have seen but the price was
up in the 25,000$ but the two drawings i had never seen even in books so i was
supprised. did not expect to see his work at the art show here in chicago.

i was one of my works in the show at an artist book dealer. you can
guess i was pleased.

john center

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Message 10
From: todd # truffin.com
Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 21:46:48 GMT
Subject: [Baren 25024] AutoReply: Re: interesting art and math info
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Message 11
From: Claude "Aimée" Villeneuve
Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 23:08:31 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Baren 25025] Re: Questions about the vandercook press
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John,

Do you have an old instruction manual for your
Vandercook press? Secondly, can you still by the kind
of paper that goes around the roller? And lastly, what
kind of ink do you use to print your blocks?

I have an old Vandercook in my father's basement and
I'm thinking of moving it to my new home. It makes
small prints (about 10 inches wide). I've never used
the inking roller system I usually ink each block by
hand. I've done an edition of cat prints for a friend
of mine who uses a Vandercook press but I found that
after the 4-5th print, there is too much ink that get
into the grooves of the block and the prints are not
crisp any more.

Claude Aimée

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Message 12
From: todd # truffin.com
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 06:07:23 GMT
Subject: [Baren 25026] AutoReply: Re: Questions about the vandercook press
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Message 13
From: FurryPressII # aol.com
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 05:59:54 EDT
Subject: [Baren 25027] Re: Questions about the vandercook press
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You can still get the typian paper but i am not sure were maybe go to
letterpress sites on line and ask.

I use graphic chem oil based printing ink eather for relief or litho
depending on the color.

Ink getting into the cuts. could be you are using too much ink or the block
is too high. Most likely you are putting too much ink on the press. apply
your ink in much thinner layers. that should clear up the ink getting into the
cuts.

john c.

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Message 14
From: todd # truffin.com
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 09:58:49 GMT
Subject: [Baren 25028] AutoReply: Re: Questions about the vandercook press
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Message 15
From: "HARRY FRENCH"
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 11:02:13 +0100
Subject: [Baren 25029] Lefties
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Greetings, particularly those with tales of recent woe.
I have a holiday for a week and come back to find likeminded Bareners upset and fed up with prints that don't do as they are told.
Well, that's about the story of my printmaking life. If you are struggling with printmaking spare a thought for lefthanders whose problems are compounded in a right handed world, which brings me nicely round to tell Carol I have just sent her my edition for "Lefties can carve " exchange and there lies another print story....
Regards,
Harry
Lincoln
England UK

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Message 16
From: todd # truffin.com
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 10:01:15 GMT
Subject: [Baren 25030] AutoReply: Lefties
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