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Artists’ Books and Japanese Papers: lessons in patience, paste and possibility by Nancy Jacobi

A presentation from the Form & Function from Afar Virtual Conference. From the year 610, the Japanese developed a range of paper for practical use from the inner barks of plant branches. Used first for brush writing, the usage spread quickly to wood block printing, windows, floor mats, fans, umbrellas, toys, armour and much more. By 1875 washi was produced in 80,000 family studios all over Japan. In 1980 there were just 850 studios left. Today there are under 100 patient and hardworking makers of washi to carry on producing these fine, strong, elegant sheets in a remarkable range! What can we as book artists learn from these early uses? Can we be inspired by artists’ books of our contemporaries who have become intimate with washi and its ancient associates – jin shofu (paste), konnyaku, kakishibu and suminagashi ? If so, we can make exciting and appropriate use of the range of Japanese paper so available now, and so uncertain post-pandemic. ---------------------------------------- Form and Function from Afar | A Conference on the Book and Paper Arts This three-day virtual conference on February 18-20, 2021 was conceived in 2020, when all of the conferences and events that normally take place were cancelled due to the pandemic. The instructors at Book Paper Thread were missing interacting with our community and thought that 50 - 100 people might join us for an online get together and sharing of techniques, resources, and ideas. Over 2200 people ultimately registered to view the conference in real time or via recordings of the sessions. We’re glad to share them with you here. About Book Paper Thread We are a collaboration of three teaching artists — Andrew Huot, Karen Hardy and Linda Marshall. When all our in-person teaching gigs were cancelled or postponed in 2020 due to the pandemic, we realized we’d have to change the way we taught. We met regularly to share our ideas and resources on how to best do that remotely. We launched our first online workshops in August 2020 and have been growing our catalogue of courses — learning how to do it better each time we teach. We cover a variety of topics in book and paper arts and offer different styles of workshop, from prerecorded month-long courses to live weekend workshops. We hope you’ll be interested in exploring a workshop with one of us. Visit our website at www.bookpaperthread.com