Japanese Puncture/Stab Books 1F26
Age Group:
Adults
This all-day workshop will explore a beloved book structure: Japanese puncture (or “stab”) binding. Especially useful for assembling individual sheets into a text block, this versatile technique allows artists to edit, sequence, resequence, and rebind pages again and again. Ideal for visual journals, print collections, photo albums, signature books, and elevated scrapbooking, the Japanese stab-bound book offers endless creative possibilities.
Students will learn the traditional Japanese 4-hole stitch pattern along with decorative stitched variations while creating both softcover and hardbound books. The exposed side stitching can also be embellished with beads, buttons, botanicals, ribbons, and personal charms, making each book uniquely your own.
A wide selection of book cloth, handmade marbled and paste papers, linen threads, ribbons, and other materials will be provided for inspiration and experimentation.
Open to all media and skill levels. Please bring drinks, snacks, and lunch. A $30 materials fee is payable to the instructor in class.
This class does not have a make-up date.
I took this workshop because I am interested in book-binding. I especially appreciated the organization and preparation that the instructor put in beforehand; amazing choices of materials for the students. Cristina was patient and always willing to help!
Cristina Hajosy
Cristina Hajosy is a mixed media artist, art educator and designer based in Greater Boston. She is the owner of Hajosy Arts (hajosyarts.com), an art studio of photography, printmaking, book arts, and historical decorative arts, especially paper marbling and paste paper. She is the co-founder and past president of New England Book Artists (newenglandbookartists.org), a book arts organization that has quickly grown since 2019. Her work strives to foster understanding and personal growth through book arts via art education and the creation of beautifully challenging and personally satisfying art.
Cristina was born in Rome, Georgia to parents who were doctors. She grew up on a cattle farm with a large catfish fishery, family garden, pecan orchards, and horses alongside private school, art classes, music lessons, and country club activities. According to Cristina,
“My story is a modern-day Green Acres complete with Hungarian heritage and an amusing clash between high and low cultures. "
Her passion for Marbling began with paper, specifically to be used in the context of bookbinding. It swiftly moved to fabrics, textiles and wood. She finds marbled patterns can be conceptualized into mixed media contexts in unique ways. Often feminist, body-related, and occasionally narrative, her marbled artworks take this traditional craft into a contemporary, often turbulent place.
"Historical processes like marbling and the book arts were mainly shared within the master/apprentice relationship, a fairly secretive and male-dominated world. As a feminist, conceptual artist, it gives me great pleasure to lift the veil and fully share the knowledge.”
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Specialty:
Book & Paper Arts, Photography
Materials to bring to class:
$30 materials fee payable to instructor during first class.