Foreword by Jane M. Farmer. Beautifully illustrated with color photographs on nearly every page. The author, well-traveled in Asia, offers "this text as a possible entry to further consideration of paper's uses in Asia. The text skims the surface, touching quickly on many cultures and many uses. There is a strong focus on Japan because paper culture there is more intact than anywhere else....In each individual culture there is more research to be done." from the introduction Includes a glossary and a bibliography. xii, 93+ 1 pages. cloth, dust jacket. oblong 4to.

Paper and Threshold: The Paradox of Spiritual Connection in Asian Cultures

Politics & Social Sciences

Field, Dorothy

Philosophy

The Legacy Press

The invention of paper in China more than 2,000 years ago was a wondrous discovery. Worn out fishnets, hemp rags, and rope were soaked, beaten to a pulp, and then the watery mass was poured onto a cloth stretched over a wooden frame. On its surface, a web of fibers coalesced. After drying in the sun, the sheet of paper was gently pulled from the cloth. Although many uses for paper were discovered, the most important was as a superb writing surface. Over a millennium, papermaking spread throughout China, then east to Korea and Japan, and finally west along the Silk Road to the rest of the world. The materials, tools, and techniques changed according to what was available to particular environments. A few scholars have written about hand papermaking in china, but none has been as thorough as Elaine Koretsky. Her remarkable journeys have taken her from the Taklimakan and Gobi Deserts to the Himalayas. Over the course of eighteen field expeditions, she has located forty-two, often remote villages that represent unbroken traditions of papermaking by hand. She interviewed the papermakers, recorded their histories, and documented their processes in both film and digital formats, and in print. Enlightening as well as entertaining, Killing Green chronicles many of the trips that Elaine has made to China over more than a quarter of a century. 217 pages. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo.

Killing Green: An Account of Hand Papermaking in China

Biographies & Memoirs

Koretsky, Elaine

Community & Culture

From the Hand to the Machine: Nineteenth-Century American Paper and Mediums: Technologies, Materials, and Conservation

Baker PhD, Dr. Cathleen Ann

Arts & Photography

Books Will Speak Plain: A Handbook for Identifying and Describing Historical Bindings

Miller, Julia

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Hanji Unfurled: One Journey into Korean Papermaking

Lee, Aimee

Humor & Entertainment

<p>Vol. 1 accompanied by supplemental DVD containing additional illustrations, with descriptions, for the texts by Kropf, Merian, Metzger, Miller, and Rosner.</p>

Suave Mechanicals, Vol. 1: Essays on the History of Bookbinding (Volume 1)

Science & Math

Technology

<p>Based in part on materials in the William L. Clements Library.</p>

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Vol. 1 accompanied by supplemental DVD containing additional illustrations, with descriptions, for the texts by Kropf, Merian, Metzger, Miller, and Rosner.

Suave Mechancials, Vol. 2: Essays on the History of Bookbinding (Volume 2) (Suave Mechanicals)

Drawing

Originally published as a limited edition in 2000.

Endgrain Designs & Repetitions: The Pattern Papers of John DePol

DePol, John

History & Criticism

In Waters Rising: Letters from Florence, renowned calligrapher Sheila Waters recounts the story of the role that her husband Peter Waters 19302003 played as the person in charge of organizing the monumental efforts to save severely damaged books in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze National Library, Florence after the devastating flood in 1966 fifty years ago. To give the most complete picture of the events that occurred initially in the recovery mission, Sheila presents nearly 50 of Peters letters written between the end of November 1966 and April 1967, in which he describes day-to-day happenings, and her letters back, which kept him informed about things at home and boosted his confidence when problems seemed to be overwhelming. In addition to these letters and Sheilas narrative diary and timeline of events, Randy Silverman, Head of Preservation, University of Utah, has written a thought-provoking introduction that puts those conservation efforts into the context of todays practices. Also, Valerii P. Leonov has written an appreciation of Peters assistance in the aftermath of a fire in 1988 that ravaged the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The accompanying DVD features a digital remastering of Roger Hills film Restoration of Books, Florence, 1968. Waters Rising is dedicated to the people whose names appear herein and to those unnamed Mud Angels who salvaged the books that the flood waters left behind. In 2016, conservators around the world will be focusing on those events that occurred 50 years ago because in many ways the work that Waters and his colleagues initiated then gave birth to modern book conservation. 496 pages. cloth, dust jacket. large 8vo.

Waters Rising: Letters from Florence

Waters, Sheila

Historical

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Paper and Threshold: The Paradox of Spiritual Connection in Asian Cultures

Killing Green: An Account of Hand Papermaking in China

From the Hand to the Machine: Nineteenth-Century American Paper and Mediums: Technologies, Materials, and Conservation

Books Will Speak Plain: A Handbook for Identifying and Describing Historical Bindings

Hanji Unfurled: One Journey into Korean Papermaking

Suave Mechanicals, Vol. 1: Essays on the History of Bookbinding (Volume 1)

Books Will Speak Plain: A Handbook for Identifying and Describing Historical Bindings

Suave Mechancials, Vol. 2: Essays on the History of Bookbinding (Volume 2) (Suave Mechanicals)

Endgrain Designs & Repetitions: The Pattern Papers of John DePol

Waters Rising: Letters from Florence