Suzanne Moore: You Want to WHAT? Page Construction Variations and Sequence in Book Design

Title	Information
Instructor	Suzanne Moore
Skill Level	All Levels
Session/Dates	Session 2: Thursday, June 17, through Saturday, June 19, 2027 (This price includes buffet lunch for two days)
Cost	$475 Workshop Fee + $30 Materials Fee = $505
Times	1:30 pm–4:30 pm Thursday 9 am–12 noon and 1:30 pm–4:30 pm Friday and Saturday
Buffet Lunch	12 noon–1 pm Friday and Saturday

Summary Description

Learn techniques for building unconventional book pages, including joining unlike papers, adding single sheets, tipping-in, hinging, and sewing pages of varied weights. You’ll assemble your sample pages into a simple drum-leaf binding with a paper wrapper.

Detailed Description

Each message conveyed in a book requires a representation on pages that may need to vary in ways that “regular” folios might not oﬀer. This workshop will give you options for creating folios of unlike papers, adding a single sheet to the center of a folio, and many other exceptional ways to assemble book pages. A pamphlet can become a folio, with joins and hinges; tipping and sewing pages can add interest and finesse to your book structure. You can accommodate various weights and types of papers as the story unfolds.

Principles of book design are woven into the class, and the pages you assemble will be bound into a simple drum-leaf binding with a paper wrapper, approximately 10 x 6”.

Skill Level: All

Some book-making experience needed: sewing a pamphlet, squaring, cutting; good hand skills.

Required Tools & Materials Supplied by Student

Pages on text-weight paper you have created, using print techniques, lettering, drawing, painting—experiments, failed work, pieces of work, etc.
Small break-oﬀ knife
12 or 14” triangle, 30/60/90° (Fairgate aluminum, if you can get one)
Metal ruler for cutting
14x 22” (approximately) cutting mat (or piece of mat board to cut on)
Awl or T-pin
2H pencil
Bone folder (Teflon if you have one)

Any additions to this list will be sent to registered students.

Tools & Materials Supplied by Instructor

Arches Text Wove and Hannemuhle Bugra papers
Sized cover papers
Cover stiﬀeners
Embossing materials
A stash of papers, prints, and oﬀ-cuts
Brushes in many sizes
Adhesives, glue brushes, Gudy mounting adhesive, double-stick tapes
Color media and tools for application
Miscellaneous supplies for you to use for variations
Glue strips and waste sheets
Sewing materials, linen and decorative

Instructor Bio

Suzanne Moore layers painting, lettering, printmaking, and drawing to create contemporary manuscript books and limited-edition books. She weaves word and painted image with form, content, and structure into spaces that invite the reader to engage, examine, and inquire. Her books blend abstract and representational imagery, rich color, and surface treatments with textual content, contemporary lettering, and typography to create work that obscures the line between word and image, legibility and abstraction. She was one of two Americans on the Wales-based team creating contemporary interpretive illuminations for the Saint John’s Bible, commissioned for Saint John’s Abbey in Minnesota. Her work is shown widely and is collected privately and by institutions such as Wellesley College, the Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the University of Washington, among others. Suzanne teaches contemporary manuscript design, conceptual book design, and painting and collage techniques in North America and abroad, and speaks about her work. https://suzannemoorefolios.com/