Biennial world cup of art bookbinding at Saint-Rémy-lès-Chreveuses. 2: Dulce María Luna and her beginners.

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Dulce María Luna is a well-known Mexican binder rewarded in one of the previous editions of the biennial. This year she also presented her work, a decoration based on the masks of the Greek theater, that one which smiles and the one that frowns, although she only exhibits, always, the first one of these faces.

She takes time developing a fantastic project to bring the binding over to the young people. In only one hour she is capable of achieving than up to fifty! 50¡, young people to complete a small agenda: their first bookbinding. At this tenth biennial she has been working with several groups of pleased youngsters.

When they come they will find everything prepared, a little "kit" will lead Dulce, always with her smile, to help them up to turning it into a beautiful book.

The first thing is to paint a few endleaves to adorn the interior. It is the first thing, because while they bind the book it passes the precise time to dry these papers.

The bookbinding "really" begins soon, with Dulce stand in a chair giving the explanations that must be followed with attention by the beginners.

It is necessary to be applied in the work.

Both girls and boys.

To arrive at the end to be all able to pose happy with their completed works.

There is not only a beautiful project what realizes Dulce with her children, because in addition to a few first basic bookbinding notions, she teaches them the love of working with their hands and the love for a well made work. Then it will come the time to begin the work so that they could open their books and read what it is written inside. It is the first step, complementary to many other first steps that must happen, to get that these children turn into intelligent persons and lovers of their fellows.

The love to the book is the love to many loves. The one who teaches this deserves everything our respect, admiration and help.

With a sweet smile, Dulce teaches bookbinding; a thousand smiles would I wish that bookbinding returns to her.

Biennial world cup of art bookbinding at Saint-Rémy-lès-Chreveuses. 3: Paper decorators.

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When we open an ancient book the most frequent thing is that find it adorned with decorated papers as endleaves. Several different techniques were used to realize them, but there is something common to all of them: we do not know who his makers were, except in any exceptional cases.

Today everything changes quickly. We know the name of every artist who makes also decorated papers for bookbinding...

and we can even know them personally.

In the list of links on the left you can meet many of them, less than I should want, because I would like to have a link of all of them. But you must look up to find his photo, and some of them do not have it.
In the biennial, I could take these photos of the paper decorators who embellished the exhibitors' lounge that was celebrated owing to this occasion.

Brigitte Chardome,

you can admire her work in

http://www.nith-haya.be/vault/bchardome/index.html


Brigitte has developed a new technique for paper decoration, her turpentine papers have the whole delight that she possesses herself.

Marie-Anne Hamaide,

one of the marbled paper decorators more acquaintances in France,

http://mahamaide.blogspot.com/

Katalyn Perry, established in France and married with a Frenchman but Hungarian from Budapest, as my much loved Josef Halfer.

The silk work of Katalyn is...

! there are no words to describe it¡

http://www.katalinperry.com/

And Marie Pignon, the newest face, because she has just begin her journey.

http://www.becherel-autour-du-livre.com/pages/Atelier_du_TEMPS_COMPTE-1017472.html

! Good luck, Marie¡


They are some visible faces of paper decoration at present. With luck I will be able to add more, I hope that I could add all.

I already said that it is a miracle to know only the name of the ancient paper decorators, and simply impossibly to meet them. But, with these photos, my admiration and respect goes for all of them. Without his work there might not be paper decoration at present. And without the work of people shown in this comment, as well as all other who devote themselves to this work, these techniques would not have any future as they are displaced today by the industrial production.


Fortunately we have the art work.

! Because we will always be able to hang on our home one of these wonderful papers¡

A conservation case from Mexico.

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There is very good to say goodbye to the holidays with a desire made reality.

I wanted to be able to share some photos of binding works using my papers, and I asked for them privately to a pair of friends.

These are the first ones. Diana sent them to me, from Mexico. A beautiful conservation box thought by her and Tania who was who realized it.

Case, box and book...

... and later, six more images of the box.

Thank you very much, Diana and Tania, I really love your work.

And, if you allow me, I want use this entry to request to everyone who want it, to send to me photos of his work. I would like very much being able to publish them and share with everybody the enjoyment that bookbinding provides to me.