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SUPPLY LIST
– 8.5 x 11 inch copy paper (inside pages)
– Cover material (cereal box, other recyclable paper board material, fabric, wrapping paper — even draw your own cover illustration on plain paper)
– thread (embroidery thread, string, yarn, ribbon, etc.) in a length that is a little longer than twice the height of your book
– Scissors or sharp knife (like a box cutter, with a cutting mat)
– Sewing needle, paper awl or a nail — an unbent paper clip can work in a pinch to create thread holes.
– Pencil
– Ruler

PREPARE THE PAGES AND BOOK COVER
For this example, I am using 8.5 x 11 inch copy paper. You can use whatever size paper you want. I think thinner text paper is good for the inside pages.

I start by folding an 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of copy paper in half.

Cut or carefully tear the paper along this fold. Then, fold the paper in half again. If using copy paper, you can make up to 6 folded pages. Fold your paper neatly, matching edges before creasing.
Nest the folded pages together so the tops are all matching (you want them all to be the same size).

With all the pages together, measure or find the center and mark it lightly in pencil in the center fold. Do you see where I am holding a needle at the center mark? See how it is in the center fold of the nested pages? I have made two more marks — one to the right and one to the left that are 1/2″ to 1″ from each paper edge also along the center fold.
Next, pierce all your pages at once with your needle in the places you marked. You want three holes along the center fold.

Select and prepare your cover material. I’m using recyclable paper board. The cover material should be the same size — So for mine, my open pages are 5.5 inches tall, by 8.5 inches wide, so my cover is the exact same size.
If I wanted to use a part of the paper board that didn’t already have a fold, I could *lightly* score/cut the outside “spine” of the cover with a box cutter or knife to help it bend more easily. If you are using thinner material for your cover, like paper, it will be easy to fold without scoring/cutting.

Put your punctured pages inside the cover you have created. With all the edges matching hold the group of pages and cover together without letting them move and using the holes you have in the pages, push a needle, awl or nail through the cover as well. All the holes should line up so that when we sew the book together, the edges of the pages are neatly contained within the cover — no page edges or corners peeking out.

1. With your threaded needle, go through the cover and pages’ center hole from the outside and leave a “tail” of about 3 inches sticking out.

2. Now go through one of the open holes with the thread and needle. Again, leave that 3 inch tail sticking out still.

3. Take the needle and thread from the outside of the cover going inside through the last remaining open hole.

4. Take the needle and thread back through the middle hole (inside to outside) — be careful not to pierce the thread on your way through the hole.

5. Knot your thread — I use a square knot to secure the thread. The remaining thread can be either trimmed to within a 1/4 inch of the book or kept long and decorated — you can put beads or charms on the extra thread or make it into a bow. If it’s extra long, it can be a clever, built-in bookmark.

A finished pamphlet stitch book using a recycled cereal box for a cover: This is a very easy binding technique to apply to zines, short stories, blank journals or sketch books.

Post your creative versions of this simple book structure and follow me on social media — tag “Joanne Price Starpointe Studio” on Facebook and @starpointestudio on IG and Twitter.

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This class is designed for beginners and intermediate students of wood engraving — you’ll learn everything you need to know to cut your own original drawings into end-grain hardwood blocks and print them in a limited edition. Instruction will cover all parts of the process – materials, creating and transferring images, tool sharpening, engraving, setting printer’s type by hand, and proofing. Finish the week with two engravings and a collaborative book — the perfect way to start your own art collection! All levels welcome — some drawing experience helpful, but not required.

Register today!

This class would make a great primer for anyone also interested in going to the Wood Engravers’ Network (WEN) annual conference — celebrating 25 years of this exciting graphic medium at Hamilton Wood Type Museum  July 29–August 3, 2019. The Wells Book Arts Summer Institute boasts an impressive line-up of WEN connections — you’ll be in good company with this Book Arts Dream Team no matter what workshop you take!

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EXHIBITIONS
See the Beneficial Insects on exhibit in Pressing Entomology, Plantory, Lexington KY. March 16 – May 4. Opening reception Friday March 16, 5pm.
Visions at the Capitol, Capitol Annex, Frankfort, KY. Through April 6.
The Society of Wood Engravers 80th Annual Exhibition, Zillah Bell Gallery, North Yorkshire, UK, February 24–March 17. Da Gadderie at Shetland Museum & Archives, Shetland, Scotland, March 31–April 25. Pier Arts Centre, Orkney, Scotland, May 5–June 15. Woodend Barn Art Centre, Banchory, Scotland, June 24–July 21.
Wood Engravers’ Network Third Triennial Exhibition, University of Oregon School of Art & Design, Eugene, Oregon, June through July 7.

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I’m delighted to announce the release of an artist’s book, Stone Voices, by Bernice Ficek-Swenson. Stone Voices was started in March 2016 when Ficek-Swenson came to Starpointe Studio to develop a mock up for an artist book based on an installation of photographs of the same name from 2015.The idea for project hatched from a studio visit and conversation while I was in Minneapolis in October 2015.

I was honored to work with Bernie on the binding design and details, like how to incorporate geologic information, a photogravure print and other text. I constructed the clamshell box, the paper folio, and the accordion books, as well as letterpress printing the title page, essay and colophon from photopolmer plates. The book presents the photographs in an interactive and dynamic space with an elegant box as a traveling portfolio. I’m very pleased with the finished book and am so grateful to Bernie and the Minnesota State Arts Board for their support in this project!

You can see the Stone Voices artist’s book at the Minnetonka Center for the Arts’ exhibit “Phases of Matter” starting March 9 through April 5, 2018. See the brochure below for more details about the project, where to see it, and how to purchase the book:

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Joanne Price of Starpointe Studio will guide visitors through a FREE event – the creation of your own BUTTERFLY book!

Did you know that the Viceroy is Kentucky’s state butterfly? Viceroy’s are called mimics because they copy the appearance of a Monarch butterfly to scare away predators (the Monarch does not taste good).

The butterfly book covers are original prints designed, hand-printed and cut by Joanne Price. Customize your very own butterfly book to record stories or drawings or leave it as a fun paper sculpture that can flutter in the wind!

The photographically created printing plates are seen on the printing press – butterfly books by the hundreds!

These girls decorated their butterfly books and wrote stories about Paris and ice cream!

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BUGFEST is Saturday September 16, 9am–4pm

Beneficial Insects: A Work in Progress by Joanne Price Exhibit in Bernheim’s Visitor’s Center September 8th–October 31, 2017. Bernheim is open everyday 7am–8pm. FREE admission to all Monday–Friday
Only $5.00 per car, minivan or motorcycle, $10.00 per van, RV on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays

The Beneficial Insects artist’s book project was conceived of and started in 2014 with Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest’s “Local Use for Local Artists” (now called Regional Artist Program) support and continued with an Artist-In-Residence opportunity at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts (Minneapolis, Minnesota) from July 27 through August 9, 2015. Then, in January 2017, I received a Kentucky Foundation for Women’s Artist Enrichment grant that boosted the Beneficial Insects project with financial support.

This project is very slow and time consuming because of the process necessary to create the illustrations. Each illustration is hand drawn and then transferred to a printing block. Then the image must be engraved/carved so that it stands in relief. The first of the print matrices to be created is called a “key block”. The key block is then transferred to 3-4 separate blocks and each is engraved/carved based on the color that will be printed from it. Then each block is printed together—one on top of the other—to create the final image. After several color trial proofs, the image is hand-printed, one color at a time, one piece of paper at a time. Each image has taken an average of 4 months to complete.

The page sizes are 6 inches high by 7 inches wide, and 36 pages with 10 multi-color relief engravings. There will be a limited edition of 30 letterpress books and a possibility of a commercially printed version. Joanne Price is the author, artist, printer and binder for this exciting project.

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Stop by the activities area at KY Crafted: The Market this weekend April 22 & 23! We will be making Butterfly Books – the Viceroy, Kentucky’s state butterfly! The butterfly covers are original prints designed, handprinted and cut by Joanne Price. Another pollinator for the Market and a delightful book to record stories or drawings or leave it as a fun paper sculpture that can flutter in the wind.

KY Crafted: The Market
Lexington Convention Center
430 W. Vine St.
Lexington, KY

The activity area, where I’ll be set up with the butterfly books, will be in full swing:
Saturday April 22, 10–6
Sunday April 23, 11–4

I hope to see you there!

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