henrywells, Author at Arts at Wells

01/14/202412/14/2013 by henrywells

Please check out our new Summer Institute Courses for 2014! We have an amazing line-up of instructors and exciting classes!

01/14/202412/10/2013 by henrywells

01/14/202412/07/2013 by henrywells

Join us this afternoon as we print holiday cards! As you can see, these students are having a wonderful time printing lovely holiday cards. We have 6 printing presses for … Read more

01/14/202411/14/2013 by henrywells

The holiday season is right around the corner, and what better way to celebrate than with handmade prints and books!? Our students have been working diligently throughout the semester to … Read more

01/14/202410/30/2013 by henrywells

Today our Bookbinding I class began the Ethiopian Binding. This book structure dating from Late Antiquity is a beautiful book with wooden boards as covers and exposed sewing at the spine. We started by sanding wooden boards outside on this gorgeous day in Aurora! (we fear that our warm days are numbered)

You can see these students focused and hard at work, perfecting their covers. We drilled holes along the spine of the covers and some students are applying stain to the wood. Next week we will be on to sewing!

01/14/202410/22/2013 by henrywells

On Wednesday evening (tomorrow), Margaret Ward, Ph.D., D. Litt., h. c., will visit Wells to read from her book Missing Mila, Finding Family: An International Adoption in the Shadow of the Salvadoran … Read more

01/14/202410/13/2013 by henrywells

Nicolas Barker visited Wells College last Thursday where he visited the Book Arts Center and gave a brilliant talk to the community. The lecture was attended by book arts board … Read more

01/14/202410/09/2013 by henrywells

Yellow-back: ‘The nickname given to the particular type of cheap edition evolved in the middle of the 19th century for display and sale on railway bookstalls. It was usually (but … Read more

01/14/202410/08/2013 by henrywells

Our annual Holiday Card Workshop is approaching! The event will be held on the 6th and 7th of December, both days from 1-5 pm. The … Read more

01/14/202410/08/2013 by henrywells

Deckle-Fetishism:

DSC_0064_2 — Handmade Flax Paper by Laura Rowley at the University of Alabama

The over-zealous, undiscriminating (and often very expensive) passion for uncut edges in books which were intended to have their edges cut.

-from John Carter and Nicolas Barker’s ABC for Book Collectors.

Barker will be here at Wells this Thursday!

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