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Timeless Tech

a seminar on technologies and traditions of the hand made book

Event description

This invitational working seminar will bring together practitioners of book craft at the OldWays homestead near Santa Idaho. Each participant will arrive prepared to present on their current work and lead the group in an instructional session on their topic.

The theme of the seminar is the “timeless technologies” of the hand made book. This theme extends to specific materials, methods, structures or traditions. Examples of methods would be hewing or surfacing, jigging for production, adhesive bonding of laminates. Examples of structures would be format evaluations such as that of scroll vs. codex, sewn board bookbinding or production of end use mobilities in codex structures. Examples of traditions could examine the role of anonymity vs. artistic personality in book craft work, the book work of communal societies or the environment and ergonomics of production workshops. These are just examples offered to indicate the range of possibilities that are still confined by the theme of timeless technologies of the hand made book.

Event facility and staff

Event Directors are Melody and Jim Croft. The event facility is the OldWays homestead which includes a large studio workshop, a stamper paper mill and vat area, a pavilion for meals and a variety of rustic accommodations. The OldWays homestead is relatively remote in forested hill country. There is an all weather road and the small town of Santa is a few miles away.

Further information from Jim & Melody Croft, P.O. Box 211, Santa, ID, 83866, <oldway@imbris.com>