Loom /
Looms provide the blank canvases for weaving stories, a basic structure of utility and grace that connects the threads of our inner world with those of the natural world in countless and ever enduring forms. This project began when the California printmaker and book artist Richard Wagener asked a si...
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| Language: | English |
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[Santa Rosa, California] : [Petaluma, California] :
Nawakum Press ; Mixolydian Editions,
2014.
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| Edition: | Deluxe edition. |
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| Summary: | Looms provide the blank canvases for weaving stories, a basic structure of utility and grace that connects the threads of our inner world with those of the natural world in countless and ever enduring forms. This project began when the California printmaker and book artist Richard Wagener asked a simple question - how many threads does it take to make a weaving? From this journey (undertaken over several months on the surface of endgrain wood blocks, with a wood engraver's burin as walking stick) have come sixteen extraordinary engravings, artwork which evokes the mystery and beauty of connection and disconnection, while honoring the elegant simplicity and frailty of the loom and all it represents. New Zealand-born, Australian-resident poet Alan Loney, long-time weaver of words, was asked to respond to this series of engravings, and produced a poem, asking deep questions of connection and exploring "the thread of life itself."--Adapted from the prospectus. |
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| Item Description: | Limited edition of 46 copies, signed by the author and the artist. Thirty copies are numbered 1-30. Sixteen are enclosed with additional signed prints and lettered A-P. Ten copies are hors de commerce. "'Loom' was designed & co-published by David Pascoe of Nawakum Press & Richard Wagener of Mixolydian Editions. The wood engravings are by Richard Wagener & printed by the artist directly from endgrain maple blocks [on his Vandercook proof press]. The typeface is Monotype Janson 401, designed after the original by Nicholas Kis in the 1600s. Patrick Reagh typeset and cast the type ... printed the text on a 28-inch Heidelberg cylinder press on 170 gsm Zerkall Book mouldmade paper from Germany. Papers for the binding are handmade from the University of Iowa Center for the Book and La Papertrie Saint-Armand in Montreal. The bindings & enclosures are by Craig Jensen at BookLab II"--Colophon. Published in: a deluxe edition of 16 copies, lettered A-P, and a slipcased edition of 30 copies, numbered 1-30. The deluxe version is housed in a Japanese cloth covered four-flap enclosure, secured by rare earth magnets. A paper chemise holds one of the 16 prints from the book (unique to each copy), another print designed for the deluxe edition, and creative process remarks from both the artist and poet. The slipcased version is housed in a two-colour Japanese cloth covered slipcase with a printed label on the spine. Issued in slipcase. The Cushing Library/Lowman/Book Design copy forms part of the Book Design Section of the Al Lowman Printing Arts Collection and Research Archive. Purchased for the Al Lowman Printing Arts Collection and Research Archive by The Cushing Library. The Cushing Library/Lowman/Book Design copy is hors de commerce and is signed by the author and by the artist; contains a prospectus. |
| Physical Description: | 37 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 35 cm + 1 portfolio (1 cover leaf, 2 prints, 2 leaves of text : illustrations ; 35 cm) |
| ISBN: | 9780988217928 0988217929 |