The Future of the Book: A Way Forward, Iowa Book Works, 2012. A useful evaluation of implications of dual – screen and paper – book delivery. This zany, and informative publication is readable. Also, Adventures in Book Preservation, Iowa Book Works, 2012, a strategic composite of book conservation and library preservation. These books are home made at the fabled workshop of IBW.
Each is just $10 plus $3 shipping (both for $3 shipping). Each is 100 pages loaded with graphics, elegantly trimmed and securely bound. Send no money. Your mailing address will trigger the order with invoice to follow with delivery. Pay only if dumbfounded or enraptured. iowa.book.works (at) mchsi (dot) com
Iowa Book Works has recently completed another bulk order of twenty 5 by 7 inch Ethiopian Bookbinding Kits. These feature beautiful quarter-sawn White Oak boards.
Iowa Book Works fabulous new books are now ready for shipment! Future of the Book: A Way Forward and Adventures in Book Conservation: An Album of Investigations are informative and fun and loaded with pictures and strange news.
These books are produced right here in our Coralville, IA studio on Ricoh and Canon copiers using Weyerhauser (now Domtar) Cougar opaque, 60 lb text, natural (now Digital Choice). They are cheap at $10 each plus $3 shipping (order both for a single shipping charge). No pre-payment is needed; just supply a mailing address with subject “book order” to iowa.book.works (at) mchsi (dot) com. Best wishes, Gary
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Joyce at the Iowa Book Works has just completed 100 Ethiopian book binding kits. This must be some kind of record! 1200 perfectly drilled and cut lacing paths!
HOW TO ORDER IOWA BOOK WORKS Products: To order send an email to iowa.book.works@mchsi.com. Please include your mailing address when ordering.
***Iowa Book Works preserves Peruvian libraries
We are off again (May 2010) to assist the reinstallation of the exhibits at the Recoleta. For more on this high adventure project go to the blog site.
***production project
Iowa Book Works is binding over 500 copies of a
facsimile letterpress edition of early letters of Samuel Clemens. This is a project for Keokuk Public Library.
***story of the book
Iowa Book Works supplies book craft kits that enliven and accentuate learning. The popular Ethiopian book kit with its Mahdar amulet case provides cultural lessons in the advent of the codex. Amana and Nauvoo pioneer book kits engage hands and mind as students learn of life in 19th century United States. The modern sewn boards book kit provides an adventure in future prospects for the codex. The comprehensive model set of ten historical bookbinding types supports advanced book studies as it provides tactile and structural understanding of the codex mechanism. These and other Iowa Book Works products and services support education in the history of the book.
Instructors in book arts and history of the book, in context of home schooling or university programs, will appreciate the elegance and efficiency of Iowa Book Works support. Kits include precision cut components and specialized construction supplies. Clear and complete illustrated instructions supervise class room activities while opening opportunities for discussion and wider teaching.
The teaching set of historical bookbindings includes a complete tutorial of the structure and reading actions of books across an immense sweep of time and cultures. The classroom experience is invigorating and quickly prompts advanced student projects.
Iowa Book Works expert staff of Joyce Miller and Gary Frost provide a further resource for book arts and book studies instructors. We will gladly support special projects and learning agendas. We will work with you to create your own book studies program from beginning reading to graduate assignments.
HOW TO ORDER IOWA BOOK WORKS Products To order send an email to iowa.book.works@mchsi.com. Please include your mailing address when ordering.
***Stories about Books
The Iowa Book Works Historical Bookbindings set of ten prototypes for the book format provides an excellent classroom resource for motivating book studies. The Coptic and Ethiopian books prompt study of archeology or ethnography…excavating or visiting different cultures. This famous pair also introduces the books of Africa which provided models for all the Western book cultures.
Another pair from the early 19th century of the first production cloth covers, prompts discussion of handmade and machine made books and the wider context of material culture collections. The vellum binding and wooden board binding pair contrasts the lecturn book with the pocket book and brings up discussion of connectivity and libraries.
Writing and printing discussion is prompted by the long stitch account book and the letterpress paper case binding. Finally the 17th century leather covered binding and the modern edition sewn board binding introduce the continuing technologies and uses of books.
Best of all the students will manipulate these various book structures and realize the innovations and functionalities of the book and the different skills and methods needed to make them.
This comprehensive teaching resource features reveals of the interior structures of each bookbinding, a detailed tutorial essay of each book and the directions for further study and the whole set is custom boxed for library storage and portability.
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