N/H@ffi@CC@ Orrt-a JOURNAL OF _L AUSTRALIAN a CRAFT IJ BOOKBINDERS ffi@UND May and August 2003 Yol.24, Nos 2 and 3 Editor: John R Newland ISSN0 t597tgt MOROCCO BOUND is an Australian journal published quarterly for craft bookbinders. Publication dates are I March, 15 May, l5 August and I November. Contributions and topics on any aspect of the history, theory or practice of bookbinding are most welcome, together with photographs and diagrams having full descriptive captions. Texts should be typed with double spacing or preferably on lBM-compatible ASCII format floppy disks. The Editor reserves the right to sub-edit material and alI articles will be published at the Editor's discretion. Authors should ensure that they own the copyright or have secured permission to reproduce copyright material. Authors submitting articles and illustrations to this journal may transfer their copyright to the publisher of this Journal for purposes of future publication by others. 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The Editor, Morocco Bound, NSW Guild of Craft Bookbinders Inc., P O Box 1110, ROZELLE NSW 2039 AUSTRALIA CONTENTS The Future of Morocco Bound - John R Newland and Paula Bloch ......... 9 International Marblers' Gathering: Images, Surfaces, Devices - Vi Wilson and Carol Cantrell l0 Rare Trades - Daphne Lera ........... ...................... 13 Hugo Peller - John R Newland 13 Building'Purulia'Exhibition at Eryldene, Gordon, NSW - Paula Bloch 14 Sydney 2003 Royal Easter Show Bookbinding Results 15 THE FUTURE op MOROCCO BOUND TT WAS TOO LAIE to inform everyone that there would The NSW Guild Committee, the producers of MoRocco I be no issue of the May 2003 Monocco BouNo. Unfort- BouNo, has been considering this question including a Iunately, due to there being only a very small number of number of other proposals. contributions available, it was decided that rather than issue John R Newland, just only a single A.4 page, the May issue would be com- Editor. bined with the August issue in the hope that a more worthwhile and viable publication would result. The usual The Guild committee received a report by the Editor, John May issue of the NSW NEwsr-Errrn was issued in March to Newland, on the current situation with Monocco BouND advertise the Building 'Purulia ' book exhibition to be held on 2l May. It was agreed that this matter would be discussed in early May, so the appropriate notice about Monocco at the following meeting on 30 July. John's report was very BouNo was unable to be given. The Editor apologises to thorough and extensive, going over the history of Monocco readers flor lateness of notice. Bour.ro up to the present day. The non availability of good articles on books, book- Having been a member of the Publications Committee binding techniques, noted personnel, exhibitions, fairs, for almost three years (and occasional contributor), I have reports of travels in other countries, demonstrations and experienced the worry and concern in trying to ensure that related ephemera is a matter of grave concern. There seems there are enough varied, interesting, and at the same time, be a to drought and contributions havejust dried upl The well written articles available for publication. John has done question comes down to: do 'we' really need Moaocco a wonderful job as Editor for many years and we need to Bouxo? Or should the various State Guilds persist with consider carefully his views and suggestions. Both their own parochrial endeavours and revert to their own Rosemarie Jeffers-Palmer, also member of the publications newsletters for the propagation of technical articles, in Committee, and myself support John Newland's proposal addition to notices of their local activities? If the answer for an annual publication, more substantial in size with to this question is 'yes', then there seems ro be little point quality content. to continue Monocco BouNo as a national .journal. (Continued on Page l6) 9 Yol.24, Nos 2 and 3 MOROCCO BOUND May and August 2003 INTERNATIONAL MARBLERS' GATHERING IMAGES, SURFACES, DEVICES A report by Vi Wilson and Carol Cantrell The fifth international gathering of marblers was held at art. Vi was most fortunate to have two pieces hung in this Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, Tennes- exhibition. see, USA from 4 to 7 September2OO2. Like previous gath- The Tribute Exhibition showed limited examples of the erings. it attracted marblers, collectors and otherwise inter- work of recognized past masters of marbling - the late ested people from eastern and western cultures. Countries Christopher Weimann, Musta[a Duzgunman, Michel Duval represented were America, Canada, England, France, Ger- and Sydney Cockerell. The Children's Exhibition showcased many, Turkey, Spain, Austria, Japan and Australia. Those their work produced in marbling classes. attending fiom Australia were Vi Wilson from Southport, On the second day of the conference, marblers were Carol Cantrell from Sydney, Joan Ajala tiom Brunswick given the opportunity to sell work they had produced. The Heads and Robert Mclaren fiom Melbourne. The number variety was astonishing - notjust sheets ofpaper, but cloth- attending the conference was down on expectations, due in ing, books, greeting cards, jewelry and wall art. A supply part to the current uncertainties in air travel. store was also set up. In the evening this room was com- Gatlinburg is a small community with a heavy tourist pletely cleared, and marbling tanks set up for people to test influence, nestled at the edge of the Great Smoky Moun- different products which had been donated. This 'research tains National Park, an area of densely wooded hills and and development' room was open each evening until mid- mountains, at the eastern extremity of Tennessee. The night. It was always busy ! Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts is one of four major Friday and Saturday mornings were set aside for lectures schools of its kind in this part of the country, and is well set which were informative and often entertaining. Some of the up with airy classrooms, a good library, and supply store. topics included were: The Making of Inksticks; Historical Most of the conference attendees were housed in on-campus Contributions to Marbling in France; Influence of Islamic accommodation. Marbling on Early European Development; and The Use of The conference began on Wednesday evening with the Oleographs in Bindings. The aftemoons were set aside for a official opening of the juried Exhibition; the Tribute Exhi- series of demonstrations by well-known marblers. Six differ- bition; and the Children's Exhibition. The juried exhibition ent demonstrations (some repeated) were held each hour for contained some wonderful images - beautifully marbled silk, three hours, and participants had to choose what they wished wood, ceramic and paper using collage techniques, over- to see. It was a system that worked well, and included such marbling, underpainting with overmarbling, precise circular topics as edge marbling for books, Spanish marbling, tradi- images, and images combining eastern and western mar- tional patterns, marbling on ceramic, fabric or timber, Turk- bling. The methods to create these images included oil, ish flowers, suminagashi, and paste papers. Demonstrators watercolour, and acrylic on varying surfhces - water, methyl- were very open and shared their information. cellulose, gum tragacanth, gum guar, and carrageen. Mar- An on-line magazine was at the time of the conference bling, like calligraphy. has emerged from its traditional book well into the planning stages, and the first issue has recently arts base, into the areas of wall art and elegantly wearable appeared on CD ROM. This, together with the formation Cantl Cantrell, Vi Wilson and Dan Essig at Dan's e.rhibition of his books at the American Craft Expo held at Clicago in September 2002. 10 2003 Yol.24, Nos 2 and 3 MOROCCO BOUND May and August Jake Benson's entlusiastic demonstation of edge rnarbling encouraged his audience to activell participate. they shared on that visit, and the support she received from other marblers and friends, gave her the determination to finish this mammoth undertaking. It was completed in 2002 and contains the work of nearly 60 marblers. Each participant's work is presented in a folio, with one page of hand lettered text detailing the marbler's philosophy about marbling. A book to accompany the of a Society of Marblers, will provide a valuable forum for marblers to communicate and share information. To raise funds for the Society, marblers were asked to contribute samples of their paper, which were bound into a book and auctioned at the end of the conference. The work of over forty marblers is represented and the book is a real collec- tors item. The bidding was spirited and quickly passed the anticipated price. Finally down to two bidders, the auction became quite exciting, and it is with much pleasure that we can report that Vi Wilson is now the proud owner of this book. Anyone traveling to Southport in Queensland is wel- come to make an appointment with Vi to see it. One of the highlights of this conference was being able to view the Modern Marblers - a book and folios created by Jean-Marie Seton of Santa Barbara, California. Originally she had been commissioned to do a book using her mar- bled samples but after the second marblers' gathering in San Francisco in 199Z,Jean-Marie realised there were many marblers she would like to include in such a book, and in 1993 she began collecting marbling samples from people all over the world. It was her desire to not only pay tribute to four past masters (Weimann, Duzgunman, Duval and Cockerell), but contemporary marblers as well.