Paper
2 essays and 3 letters on this subject.
Essays
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Casing In
Glue, board and cloth, a night under a weight, and the moment a pile of thread and paper becomes a book.
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Folding the Signatures
Grain, folds and a bone folder, and the discovery that a crease is a decision you make once.
From the weekly letter
- No.5
Notes from the book press
The cased book comes out of the press, what the spine remembers, and a small defence of the thing you cannot unmake.
- No.2
The sound of a stitch
Sewing signatures by ear, the first folded sheets, and a surprising amount of correspondence about paper grain.
- No.1
A first letter, in pencil
Why a weekly letter, what it will and will not be, and a ream of paper that has been sitting on the table for a week.