Alpha blocks letterpress12/7/2023 ![]() Plus loin les rayons de l’Histoire Naturelle avec les herbiers et les flores les oiseaux, s’envolant quand on tourne les pages, virent autour des colonnes de fer, effleurent les crânes et reviennent dormir dans leur volière de cuir ou de toile les rugissements des fauves et le passage des poissons devant ces fenêtres d’aquarium. Comme une vrille de volubilis la longue phrase s’entortille autour de la rambarde qui longe les balcons des romans-fleuves avec leurs péniches de familles, d’héritages, d’affrontements, d’effondrements, d’écoeurements et de baisers. On ouvre une grille et c’est la haute salle de lecture avec ses verrières qui répercutent les somnolences, les feuillettements, les émerveillements. Par ici les dictionnaires, l’espalier des langues dans cette galerie les cristallisations des sonnets et des haïku, la joaillerie des ballades. Rangés dans leurs casiers comme des bouteilles les volumes fermentent à l’intérieur de la grande cave aux lampadaires doux sur les fronts ridés ou bouclés qui se penchent dans le déchiffrement de leurs annotations. The text is fluid, both in its narrative and here, even in its physical format. Transparency is at the core of this volume, printed from polymer plates on to cellophane sheets and housed in a plexiglass slipcase. By the end, only the punctuation remains on the right, with Butor’s text in reverse on the left. Each letter of the alphabet is confined to one transparent page so that, as the pages are turned, a single letter disappears throughout. In the first volume, it is in Butor’s original French and in the second volume, it has been translated into German. Von Ketelhodt has letterpress printed a passage in which Butor offered a portrait of a universal library: Itinéraire: les bibliothèques. Her matrix is the writing of Michel Butor (1926-2016), a French novelist whose experiments with narrative and structure put him at the forefront of the literary trend known as le nouveau roman (the new novel). Investigating the visual and conceptual structure of the printed page, Alpha Beta is designed, printed, and bound by the German artist Ines von Ketelhodt. ![]() Graphic Arts Collection (GAX) 2017- in process Text by Michel Butor (Flörsheim am Main: I. (You can see Barbara’s letterpress work on her flickr photostream.Ines von Ketelhodt, Alpha Beta. She took the suggestions (there are quite a few on the Briar Press discussion) and summarized them in the following table (bigger version on her flickr page.) She mentions a really nice Paper Comparison Chart from Daniel Smith that lists all sorts of papers, not just printing paper. She also posted the question on Briar Press. ![]() The Somerset Text Laid seems to have been discontinued (why?), and the Zerkall Book Laid is not quite as heavy as I’d like and is not 100% cotton. I’ve ordered some of the Hahnemühle to experiment with, but I’d prefer cotton. I’m looking for something to be dampened and printed with multiple passes using a 10-point rather delicate typeface. Recently, Barbara Hauser wrote on a letterpress list I readĬan anyone suggest a text- or book-weight cotton paper similar to Hahnemühle Bugra, which is a mould-made 130 gsm laid paper and comes in a creamy white color.
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