Folding the turkish map fold with a non-square piece of paper isn’t as straight-forward as with a square sheet. So for completeness, I’ve put directions for using a rectangular piece of paper here.
Month: March 2012
Joy Serwylo’s Turkish Map Fold Book
As I continue looking at artist’s book on Etsy, I found Australian Joy Serwylo’s Willo Press where she makes miniature books. The one I liked best, given my recent obsession with the Turkish Map Fold, is her maps of the ancient world, below. The book has 6 pages, all with the map fold. See all her miniature books, including a cook book, here.
Maps: Walking with a Toddler
After finding Bo Press Miniatures on Etsy the other day, I’ve been looking at other book artists who sell there. The map below is from Brian Kring and his Emporium of Tiny Literature, Cards and Other Things Paper. The letterpress printed map below details the neighborhood walk he takes with his 3 year old son. The outline is printed letterpress and then hand colored. Brian has other artist’s books, moveable cards and paper sculptures here. He’s also got a website with more of his work.
Prompt Challenge & Pi Day
Due to a series of vexing computer and printer issues this past week, I didn’t make much progress on last week’s prompt challenge word, so I’m going to keep it for next week.
In the meantime, it’s PI Day tomorrow, March 14. I found this pi book by Pat Sweet on Etsy. She says:
This is a tiny book containing four recipes for Pi:
1. the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.
2. Wallis’ Product
3. the Gregory-Leibniz series
4. Viele’s Formula
– all running through the book in parallel , with increasing complexity. This sounds pretty dry, unless you’re a Pi-est, so I’ve sweetened the book with two magnificent endpapers, depicting a giant metallic PI lounging on a Hawaiian beach, and in a snowy Norwegian forest. The typeface was chosen to evoke memories of old elementary school textbooks.
Do check out all of Pat’s other fun miniature books here.
The Palace Press and Stories of O’Keeffe
Here in Santa Fe there’s a working press & bindery affiliated with the New Mexico History Museum, at the Palace of the Governors. They print collections of poetry for the state & city Poet Laureates and design & print really lovely broadsides. Currently they are printing and binding 100 copies of a special edition of a book about Georgia O’Keeffe (who lived in New Mexico much of her life). There’s a nice article and video in the local newspaper this morning about printing the book. The photo to the left is Tom Leech, curator of the Palace Press, printing pages for the book on their Vandercook.
How To: More Map Fold Variations
I’ve used this variation in my last two prompt challenge words. I got the idea from Jeannine, who said she “start(s) with 2 straight folds (horizontal and vertical) and only one diagonal.” Here’s how to fold it — in the fourth step below, reverse the crease on the diagonal fold to get a square that is half the size of the original sheet.
I took 4 folded sheets and glued them to a backing sheet to get this:
Gluing the folded sheets back-to-back, and rotating each sheet 180 degrees as you glue, like the picture on the right, gives you an accordion book that has a wonderful slinky-like action to it. Below is a model I made that I hung up in my studio.
My friend Cathy calls these “Lotus Books,” and she has an example here and more complete instructions in this PDF.
Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord calls them “diamond fold books” and she has more examples on her website.
All my posts on Turkish Map Folds, the variations and examples can be found here.