Brigitte Schuster

Seta (calligraphy book)

  • project: Book in use of "Foundational hand/roman minuscule"
  • collaboration: Fran Sendbuehler, no bar code press (bookbinding)
  • 2009
  • Written in different sizes with 'Brause' nibs on Japanese Kagagampi paper. Use of walnut ink and red Windsor Newton ink. Double pages, folded and placed in a cardboard box, which is hold together by a red silk thread.
  • I used Italian and French text excerpts from Seta (Silk) by Alessandro Barrico. It is a 19th century novel about a French silkworm-merchant, who travels between France and Japan. At some point later in his life he finds out that life had passed him without him noticing some of its beauties.
  • Book description: calligraphy, Japanese Kagagampi paper, 64 pages/8 sheets, 5.75 x 11 in, unicum
  • This is a self-initiated project following a 10 week "Foundational hand/roman minuscule" workshop with Marco Chioini.

Box with red silk thread

Open box with pages

Open box with page containing calligraphy in red ink

Open box with page containing calligraphy in brown and red ink

Open box with page containing calligraphy in dark brown and red ink

Open box with page containing calligraphy in dark brown and light brown ink

Open box with page containing calligraphy in dark brown ink and upside down

Open box with page containing calligraphy in dark brown ink and light brown ink in different sizes

Open box with page containing a line of calligraphy in dark brown ink and the small text in light brown ink

Open box with page containing four lines of calligraphy in different brown shades

Open box with page containing mainly red calligraphic lines

Open box with verso of page

Open box with page that contains credits

Open box with pages before being closed

Closed box with red silk thread

Project preparations:

Foundational hand/roman minuscule text on paper

Foundational hand/roman minuscule letters with pencil corrections on paper

Foundational hand/roman minuscule ligatures on paper

Foundational hand/roman minuscule on Japanese paper

Overlapping foundational hand/roman minuscule texts

Zoomed-in overlapping foundational hand/roman minuscule texts

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Author
Brigitte Schuster
Published
2009-04-24