October 16, 2020 – Pamphlet Tutorial
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Title
October 16, 2020 – Pamphlet Tutorial
Subject
Tufts University, Tisch Library, Special Collections
Description
Thanks to all who have followed iPhone in the Vault. Today we invite you to make a beautiful book of your own, a pamphlet, using an easy technique seen in our 18th & 19th century pamphlets. If you make one, please consider posting a photo and tagging @tischlibrary
With a few minutes of cutting & folding, plus a few stitches, you can make a notebook to write, draw, doodle; to record the best quotes from your reading, or your impressions of this peculiar year.
“Books win in the end." - Franco Maria Ricci (1937-2020)
Materials: an 8-1/2 x 11 sheet of paper, or a few sheets of smaller letter stationery; a piece of fancy paper, such as from Papersource in Porter Square, light cardstock, or grocery bag paper (the vegan counterpart to a parchment cover); needle and thread, or a stapler; letter opener or a dull knife; pencil, ruler, scissors; bone folder, or the barrel of a pen, to make sharp folds.
1. More paper than you need, in order to show different possibilities.
2. The directions.
3-9. You don’t even need to know how to sew on a button to do this. Multiplied by a dozen or more, this is how books were bound by hand, for centuries (but at that scale, more complicated than sewing a button).
10. Voila. You have made a sewn pamphlet.
With a few minutes of cutting & folding, plus a few stitches, you can make a notebook to write, draw, doodle; to record the best quotes from your reading, or your impressions of this peculiar year.
“Books win in the end." - Franco Maria Ricci (1937-2020)
Materials: an 8-1/2 x 11 sheet of paper, or a few sheets of smaller letter stationery; a piece of fancy paper, such as from Papersource in Porter Square, light cardstock, or grocery bag paper (the vegan counterpart to a parchment cover); needle and thread, or a stapler; letter opener or a dull knife; pencil, ruler, scissors; bone folder, or the barrel of a pen, to make sharp folds.
1. More paper than you need, in order to show different possibilities.
2. The directions.
3-9. You don’t even need to know how to sew on a button to do this. Multiplied by a dozen or more, this is how books were bound by hand, for centuries (but at that scale, more complicated than sewing a button).
10. Voila. You have made a sewn pamphlet.
Creator
Christopher Barbour
Source
Instagram: @Tischlibrary
Publisher
Tufts University, Tisch Library
Date
October 15, 2020
Contributor
Anna Minasyan
Format
image/jpg
Language
eng
Type
image
Coverage
2020
Citation
Christopher Barbour, “October 16, 2020 – Pamphlet Tutorial,” Tufts Libraries Omeka, accessed April 20, 2024, https://omeka.library.tufts.edu/items/show/5306.