I’ve used this folding technique for my book Summer as well for a book I did as part of my on-going prompt challenge, shown in this blog post. David Rosen taught me this fold. He had instructions on his website, but they (and it) have disappeared.
The photo above shows an example of the fold (an invitation to an exhibition of works by Julie Chen.)
Directions for the fold are here.
UPDATE: Click here to see other posts on the Turkish Map Fold and its variations.
Probably 90% of people who make New Year’s resolutions include “get more organized.” This may be the first January in quite some time that I didn’t try to “fix” some mess in my office and studio by rearranging things. Probably because I did a complete overhaul last September when I bought another set of paper drawers. But increasingly it’s information overload, not stuff, that’s a problem for me. Apparently this it’s a new problem, as reported by There I Fixed It, in a post called “Historical Thursday: Agostino Ramelli’s Bookwheel.” They say
The 16th century saw a similar wealth of knowledge increase. With the recent(ish) invention of the printing press, individuals now had access to a much wider variety of books and a fraction of the price. For the first time ever, it was viable for a person to have a library in their own home.
Read it all here. First seen on boing boing.
I’ve challenged myself this year to use a different word each week (the word featured each Monday on dictionary.com) to get me into my studio and developing some new ideas. My first word was truss. I thought that if nothing else came to mind, I would use the meaning “to tie, bind, or fasten” to sew an interesting binding on a blank book. I wondered if I could use whatever pattern one might use to truss a chicken. But a Google image search for truss brought up only pictures for the engineering or architectural meaning: “any of various structural frames based on the geometric rigidity of the triangle,” in particular for bridges.
This lead me in search of book structures with triangular pages. The one above is an elegant triangle book by Karen Hanmer (She has a lovely gallery of her work on her website.)
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Or, on the left, Dennis Yuen’s book with triangle pages and coptic binding. Right is an accordion triangle book by Lolita of Daily Threads.
But as I stood at my bench making models of triangle books, I kept thinking about the covered bridges I visited in Vermont this past summer. Especially the one above close to my sister’s that was unusual for being a railroad covered bridge. And a haiku I had written about the bridge
Abandoned bridge.
A view into
yesterday.
That’s when I hit on the idea of using a turkish map fold (more on how to do this fold later this week), which involves triangles. And I was lucky enough to find photos online of views looking into and out of the bridge (of course the pictures I took were only of the outside!) Here’s the results:
Partially open
Fully open
the back and front covers
The word for next week: heterotelic, adj. Having the purpose of its existence or occurrence apart from itself.
The other morning I was dusting my artist’s book collection and re-looking at some favorites. Later I saw this Room for Debate, discussing “why we collect stuff.” There are a couple of posts from people who collect, and I especially enjoyed this one by a woman who collects “the dolls I never had as a child.”
Recently I ran across a phrase new to me, prompt challenge, on this blog. The “challenge” is to create something based on a regularly scheduled prompt or idea. I poked around and found some other challenges
If you’d like to play along, the first word is truss, to tie, bind, or fasten. There are more meanings here, for instance, in horticulture it means “a compact terminal cluster or head of flowers growing upon one stalk.”
