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Artists' Books

This guide will feature many of the artists' books available in UTSA Libraries Special Collections.

Fabric & Sewing

Common threads. Volume 119 by Candace Hicks

The book is embellished with stitching, fabric, and pockets which hold personal mementos such as greeting and post cards.

Between Two Continents by Ilze Dilane and Heather Matthew

Handle With Care by Helen Hiebert

La técnica es el grabado en aguafuerte sobre cobre, grabado en punta seca sobre acrílico y grabado en fotopolímero, impresos en papel hecho a mano por la autora con pulpa de fibra de la corteza del jonote, utilizado para elaborar el papel artesanal amate (amatl). ... El diseño del estuche es de ALTERnativa Gráfica y presenta las tortillas hechas a mano en la comunidad de Atécuaro, Michoacán

Mis tortillas para Valentina by Ioulia Akhmadeeva

Handmade Paper

Handmade paper from paper mulberry; thread, manipulated papers and materials including but not limited to natural dye, beeswax, ink, suminagashi, woven and knitted paper, ribbon, and fabric.

Peculiar and commonplace by Aimee Lee

Letterpress-printed on handmade [cotton and abaca] paper in a single month, produced collaboratively by community members in Farmville and faculty and students at Longwood University

Unbound by Jessica Peterson

Thread drawing with an actual length of thread. Letterpress printed by Sandy Tilcock on handmade translucent abaca paper.

The way it is by William Stafford and Helen Hiebert

Metal

The beetles are crafted out of embossing paper templates and photopolymer plates, stylized with a ball point pen and painted with alcohol ink on aluminum.

Chronicles of a coleopterists strikingly curious swarm by Gabrielle Cooksey

All is contained in a cloth covered clamshell box that is lined with sheet metal covered with Sakamoto paper to hold a complete set of Desdemona's individual word magnets.

Desdemona in her own words: extracted from Othello by Emily Martin

Includes wrapper enclosure made from Cave Paper treated with foil stamp and metal grommets. Interior pocket

Talisman by Ellen Knudson

Wood

Issued in red and black cloth-covered wood case. Three wooden half-rings on upper cover and flap attached to inner upper cover permit case to be used as book stand.

Dies solis by Raymundo Sesma