Playful Bookbinding and Paper Works

In my twenties, while working alongside Mindell Dubansky and Susan Share in book conservation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I learned a wonderful way of inserting a image on to a page, using just folds, and no adhesives.

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I learned how to embroider a chain stitch from a 35 cent pamphlet while I was in my teens. I doubt I would have ever thought of chaining as a way to sew the spine of a book had I not seen it in Keith Smith’s book, 1-2-& 3 Se...

Just recently I made this sweet folded cover with sewn-in pages with a group of middle school students. What I want to write about is some teaching choices that I made, but unless you are interested in teaching (which, actually, I hope y...

I’ve long admired this folded enclosure design by Hedi Kyle, featured on page 117 of her book Art of the Fold. My friend Jean gifted me one of these envelope-sized models, Nancy Ackerly has done a lovely video on how to ...