The Sunday Paper #538
January 5, 2025
Glad New Yr! The start of the yr is my busy season, and I’ve so many issues to share with you this week!
January is after I open annual enrollment for The Paper Yr, my yearlong on-line program (deadline to affix is 1/10/25) and Weave By Winter, my month-long on-line class (registration deadline is 2/1/25). Thanks to these of you who’ve signed up already!
In case you’re inquisitive about both class, please click on on the pictures under to learn extra, watch the movies and register.
We’re creating an exquisite paper group, and it’s thrilling to have the ability to supply these applications to a rising variety of worldwide members. I study a lot from everybody I get to work with! Right here’s to a different yr of enjoyable collectively.
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I had a beautiful dialog with Michelle Samour on Paper Discuss. Samour is a multi-media artist whose work explores the intersections between science, expertise, and the pure world, in addition to the socio-political repercussions of redefining borders and limits. She is Professor Emerita of the College of the Museum of Superb Arts (SMFA) at Tufts College, the place she taught historic and modern approaches to working with handmade paper and pulp. Get pleasure from our dialog!
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The Greatest Saved Secret, 200 Years of Blooks, opens on the New York Heart for E book Arts on January sixteenth. The curator, Mindell Dubansky, explains: “I refer to those objects by the handy time period blooks, a contraction of “book-look”. The aim of my research and gathering endeavors is to find out the scope of the topic by the examination of thematic tendencies, makers and producers, and object histories; to contextualize blooks inside the realms of ebook historical past, materials tradition, and the humanities; and to introduce probably the most fascinating blook buildings to artists and makers.” The exhibition runs by Might 10, 2025.
The Care and Feeding of Books, Maker Unknown, 1947.
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Wowza! The world’s thinnest Japanese paper — simply 0.02 millimeters thick and weighing a mere 1.6 grams per sq. meter, is produced by Hidakawashi Co. , whose prospects vary from the British Museum in London to the Louvre in Paris. They’re using the ultrathin paper within the restoration of cultural artifacts. The paper is sturdy and so skinny that when it layered over paperwork, even detailed characters stay legible. It additionally resists yellowing and discoloration.
Hidakawashi Co. President Hiroyoshi Chinzei holds up Japanese paper with a thickness of simply 0.02 millimeters in Hidaka, Kochi Prefecture. (Mainichi/Masatoshi Maekawa).
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Take a look at this mesmorizing shortlisted animated brief movie by Kei Kanamori.
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Paper Tidbits
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