and a good-sounding class in Seattle...

Seattle Center for Book Arts presents a workshop on Alternative Bindings:
Secret Belgian Import Binding

Instructor: Lisa Hasegawa
When: Saturday, November 12th, 9:00a-12:00p
Where: 2100 Building
Address: 2100 24th Avenue South, Seattle WA 98144
Class Fee:$60
Please enroll by: November 4th

Secret Belgium Import Binding

This simple, elegant binding allows your book to open completely flat. The cover is comprised of three separate pieces; front cover, spine, and back cover. Thread is woven through the signatures connecting the front and back covers while the the spine is held in place just by the thread that wraps around it.
Some bookbinding experience helpful, but not required.

Please email lilsletters@hotmail.com to enroll. Our website (www.seattlebookarts.org) will be updated shortly with additional details, photos and tools needed for class

Paper Towers exhibit in Portland, OR

This looks very cool. Of course, dog eared Katie graduated from Reed, so if anyone else wants to review this show, email us. You'll get paid for your review.

PAPER TOWERS: The Creation of a Book
by Sarah Horowitz

October 14- December 23, 2005
Reed College
Hauser Memorial Library

Models, drawings, prints, and engraved blocks show the
conception and
creation of this limited-edition art book.
Paper Towers is based on five poems by Yiddish poet
Kadya Molodowsky
with translations by Kathryn Hellerstein.

This project is made possible in part by a grant from
the Regional Arts
and Culture Council.

web.reed.edu/gallery/case_works/index.html

Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
Portland, OR 97202

and another one in Portland, OR...

Designer Bindings from the Collection of Cynthia Sears & Frank Buxton

* Collins Gallery

* 3rd Floor, Central Library

* 801 S.W. 10th Avenue
* Portland, OR

* October 4-November 20
* Mon. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
* Tue.-Wed. 10 a.m.-8 p.m.
* Thu.-Sat. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
* Sun. noon-5 p.m.

About the exhibit
Book bindings can be simple utilitarian structures that we handle
everyday and take for granted. Or, they can be breathtakingly elaborate,
stunning vehicles for skillful artists who have mastered the handling of
leather and other materials to produce unforgettable objects.

Join us for this exhibition, which features highlights from the
wonderful collection of Cynthia Sears and Frank Buxton. It includes
sculptural book-walls by Philip Smith; gorgeous designer bindings on
books about binding that were commissioned from some of the world's best
binders and authors on the topic (including Douglas Cockerell and Tini
Miura); and the complete set of 25 remarkable, gold-tooled bindings
produced in the late 1990s to honor one of the book arts' most respected
practitioners, Bernard C. Middleton.