#turkish map fold

[writer-at-the-table]

More books!

[press-take]

[ Dream of my grandfather as a boy It’s enough to press ferns into an old book And call that preservation

From extracts taken from a short manuscript of Jane Wong’s, titled Impossible Map.

Julie Swarstad Johnson, Jane Wong's Impossible Map as Inspiration:

I love encountering books with a physical form that echoes their content. Jane Wong’s Impossible Map, published by Fact-Simile Editions in 2015, does just this: The interior pages are a series of Turkish map folds, a form which expands out, opening like a flower, opening like discovery.

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Impossible Map suggests that physical form can follow content in inventive ways, but it also suggests that common forms from everyday life, like maps, can become points of departure for creative acts. What territories in your life need mapping right now?

[uispeccoll]

I previously posted about an artist book in our collection based on the concept of Andean quipus. 

Terry Horrigan of Protean Press and Catherine Mutz collaborated on the book Quipu, which consists of a scholarly essay on quipus and a beautiful Turkish map foldout inspired by one of the quipus in the Museo Nacional de Antropologia y Arqueologia in Lima, Peru.

-John

Mutz, Catherine and Terry Horrigan. Quipu. San Francisco: Protean, 2004.

[emilygcaplan]

Workshop | Screen Print and Turkish Map Fold;

Friday 6th May

Today I attended a workshop, that led to us producing a screen printed ‘book’. To do this, we started by drawing out our pattern on mark resist, and Naomi then transferred these onto the screen we would be printing through. I have done both screen printing and the turkish map fold before, so I understood the basics of what we were producing.

I think that the outcome looks extremely effective, and I love how simple it was to make! This has definitely shown me how something unique can be produced so simply. A technique like this could definitely be used to produce an outcome for our current module. 

[jbbartram]

Last bit of #bookwork before dinner. Yes, this 16-page zine DOES need a Turkish map fold insert! How could it not?!

(This is a new-bookwork post from last night that I forgot to connect to Tumblr!)

[joannacaskie]

Thought I'd give you a little How To this week, using the Turkish Map Fold to make a book.  This was the style of book I used to make my first book in my Library of Inspiration Project (making a personal library of mini books containing my favourite quotes). It's very easy to do but looks pretty impressive when done.  For my book I used one fold as I just needed one page, but when you glue a few together it looks great.  I used origami paper for this tutorial because it makes it fairly easy to see what I'm doing but you could use any, fairly thin, paper you like.  Let me know what you think - it's my first tutorial!  And if anyone wants to create their own Library of Inspiration I'd love to see.