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This was a warm session with bright sunny days and summer temperatures. Fourteen book craft participants presented their recent inventions, materials and methods. The informal rendezvous format of Timeless Tech – no teachers, no students – worked magnificently, both in the studio and at the outdoor kitchen table.

Timeless Tech spans the great horizon from folk craft and book art to conservation science and preservation administration. Billy Metcalf demonstrated deerskin parchment making and vegetable tanning, Pam Spitzmueller reported on a Jesse Meyer parchment workshop, and Nick Yeager demonstrated skin preparation methods including motorcycle retting. Gudrun Aurand took us on a hike to her cabin where we studied samples of here excellent book conservation work. Barb Tetenbaum demonstrated pamphlet binding types used in her work with Walter Hamady and in her teaching at Oregon School of Arts and Crafts. Hedi Kyle presented on the relation of origami to concertina book formats including a demonstration of her Blizzard Book with its snapping point miters. Gary Frost held forth on traits of papyrus binding and the future of wooden board bookbinding. Roberta Lavadour showed us how to do printing from weather stripping stamps. Melody Croft, Joyce Miller and Marilyn Mohr instructed us in Timeless Tech community skills while Shy-Ju Wang expertly demonstrated four color Gocco. Andrew Hyot and Jim Croft interpreted all the activities.

Gudrun Reports

REPORT (Gudrun Aurand, 7-29-03) Pre-Conference 'Book Skin Intensive' TIMELESS TECH II, 2003 Santa, ID Outline of events July 15 through July 19 Pre-Conference, 2003 Before the official beginning of TT II a 'Book Skin Intensive' took place with some of its participants staying on. Participants: Jim Croft, Nick Yeager, Billy Metcalf, Pam Spitzmueller Billy Metcalf is a professional traditional leather worker who knows how to make mostly traditional, brain tanned buckskin and also parchment, alum tawed, traditional vegetable (sumac leaves, quebracho bark) tanned leather out of deer, elk, moose and goat skins. Billy Metcalf as teacher/guide compared notes with the other participants experienced in the craft. They exchanged ideas about skin production as covering material for books. Nick Yeager made the Public Television movie about parchment making. Pam Spitzmueller has taken classes in alum tawed and parchment making. July 19 through July 26 TT II, 2003 One aspect of the event involved discussing the future length, format, publication and postings regarding TT. Precondition for participation is commitment to a subject. Next year's TT Intensive is scheduled to last 7days with two presentations per day. The day before (Friday, July 2) and the day after (Sunday, July 11) the scheduled event are to be considered as travel days. TIMELESS TECH III, 2004 Saturday July 3 through Saturday 10 Gary Frost committed to making the necessary arrangements to have a site for TT where people can go to check and post date and subject of their presentation. For now some information can be found at http://www.futureofthebook.com. In the future a link to the TT site may be found here. The TT site will also be linked with Craig Jenson's who will act as Web master. http://booknotes.weblogs.com/ KEEP YOUR EYES PEELED FOR ANNOUNCEMENTS. Detailed description of presentations will be posted at the web-site once up and running. Participants TT 2003 Gudrun Aurand, Jim Croft, Gary Frost, Andrew Huot, Huot, , Nick Yeager, Hedi Kyle, Roberta Lavadour, Marilyn Moore, Pamela Spitzmueller, Barbara Tetenbaum, Shu-Ju Wang and several accompanying friends. We cooked our own hemlock bark tannin. Jack Thompson had sent his 'Barkometer' for testing of strength of the tannin in the hemlock bark solution. He dropped by several times taking a break from working on the pond for his future stamp mill. Gudrun Aurand talked about Pamphlet Binding versus Velo-Binding: a case history of inertia. Gary Frost; Wooden board Bookbinding for the 21st century. Hedi Kyle: Book models based on the concertina fold. Roberta Lavadour: Heat embossed neoprene stamps. Barbara Tetenbaum: How to present artist's prints. Hard cover bindings for thin text block books. Retrospective of experience of the past 25 years. Shu-Ju Wang: 4 color Gocco printing. Leroy Lee gave an interesting and insightful power point presentation: Historical forests, Benewah County, ID.

everyhthing is an aspect of something

Gudrun Aurand Bookbinder/Conservator Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5610 e-mail: aurandg@wsu.edu

Timeless Tech 3, 2004: Oldways Homestead, July 2-11